In South Africa, your music is your property, and the law supports you
In systems of constitutional supremacy, constitutions may introduce legal fictions, but legal fictions may not be introduced into constitutions, like the Expropriation Act does
In a three-part series on South Africa’s land question, Tembeka Ngcukaitobi takes a look at the colonial conquests that drove us here
Freedom Front Plus has joined in criticism against government proposals to expropriate half of every commercial farm in SA for workers.
ANC Youth League president Julius Malema has questioned what Planning Minister Trevor Manuel has done since taking office.
Agricultural organisations across the racial spectrum spoke out on Monday against ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema’s land-grab talk.
When Glenn Colthurst purchased the Sentinel overlooking Hout Bay, the last thing he expected was to be threatened with expropriation by SANParks.
SA’s agriculture minister said on Tuesday SA would not seize white farms to redistribute to black South Africans as this would harm its economy.
Agri SA has welcomed a Pretoria High Court ruling that the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act is effectively expropriating unused, old order mineral rights.
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/ 13 January 2009
A top Zimbabwe judge has said a regional court had no jurisdiction to rule that 78 white farmers could keep land lost to Harare’s land-reform scheme.
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/ 7 September 2008
South Africa’s slow-moving land-reform programme has so far failed to eradicate poverty, ANC leader Jacob Zuma said on Sunday.
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/ 3 September 2008
Legislation is partly to blame for the agricultural sector’s under-par contribution to South Africa, agricultural body AgriSA said on Wednesday.
A decision on whether the draft Expropriation Bill will be withdrawn has yet to be taken, public works committee chair Thandi Tobias-Pokolo says.
A tribunal began hearing an appeal on Wednesday by 77 white Zimbabweans against orders to expropriate their farms.
The Expropriation Bill has negative consequences for South Africa, a group of concerned parties said on Wednesday.
Work has come to a halt on the Expropriation Bill, and although there been no announcement, the hold-up seems to lie with Parliament’s legal advisers.
The Expropriation Bill could seriously damage South Africa’s international creditworthiness, former president FW de Klerk said on Wednesday.