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Ruth Hall
Ruth Hall works from Cape Town, South Africa. land, food, agriculture, and all things political in South Africa... and anywhere else Ruth Hall has over 8026 followers on Twitter.
The farm workers who produce our food are the most vulnerable to hunger
When drafting policies to address this situation, it is important that the voices of the workers themselves are taken into account
South Africa is still way behind the curve on transforming land ownership
There is very little clarity as to who owns what land in South Africa. A lack of reliable data and statistics doesn’t help.
ANC land policies: Talk left, walk right?
It’s good election rhetoric but the main problems dogging farm redistribution are not being addressed, say Ben Cousins and Ruth Hall.
Farming problems are clear but the solutions are not
Can we create one million new jobs in agriculture as envisaged by the National Development Plan (NDP)? If so, how?
Land reform’s middle ground
When President Jacob Zuma announced his new Cabinet, he ushered in a new era for the state’s apparatus charged with responding to rural poverty.
The unfinished business of land reform
Widely reported as ”the first farm expropriation”, the Commission on the Restitution of Land Rights recently announced that it had expropriated a 25 200ha farm near Barkley West…