The 2025 law differs from the old Act in that it includes fixing skewed land patterns, and introduces compensation based on ‘justice and equity’ and not ‘willing buyer, willing seller’
We can never forget that the path to creating a society lives and survives only through memory
To change inequality does not require knowing the future, to be certain of the outcome. It requires us to have belief in an idea and, like Mandela, try to make this dream come true
Tembeka Ngcukaitobi commemorates the 45th anniversary of the death of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe
Britain consolidated its rapacious theft of territories in Africa and Asia during the reign of Elizabeth II’s great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria
This is an edited version of the Inaugural Arthur Chaskalson Memorial Lecture delivered at the Equal Education Law Centre
The party’s founders focused it’s mission on the problem of the day – land – which remains a central issue. Yet, since 1994, the ANC has been hesitant and timid in resolving the land question.
By recalling the true origins of constitutionalism in our country, we can make sense of the Constitution’s promise and it can – perhaps once again – play its redemptive role
In the second of a three-part series on South Africa’s land question, Tembeka Ngcukaitobi says the constitution is clear: land seized under colonial states must be returned. But there is only policy confusion and elite possession
In a three-part series on South Africa’s land question, Tembeka Ngcukaitobi takes a look at the colonial conquests that drove us here