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Zulu King MisuZulu ka Zwelithini  Photo: Darren Stewart/Getty Images

Parliament postpones KZN visit to end friction between Zulu king, Ingonyama Trust Board

Tensions have risen between King MisuZulu and the ITB, and the land reform minister recently overturned the monarch’s attempt to dissolve the board

Land Reform and Rural Development Minister Mzwanele Nyhontso. (OJ Koloti/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

Land and reform minister says King MisuZulu acted beyond his powers in suspending ITB members

Minister Mzwanele Nyhontso said the members of the Ingonyama Trust Board would therefore remain in office ‘until the minister decides otherwise’

Former Ingonyama Trust Board Chairman, Jerome Ngwenya.

Ingonyama Trust Board can’t recover R40m ‘loaned’ to its hijacked investment company

The board has lost control over Ingonyama Holdings, run by its former chairperson, Jerome Ngwenya

Former Ingonyama Trust Board chairman, Jerome Ngwenya. Photo: David Harrison

Ingonyama Trust’s Ngwenya cannot act on ‘frolic of his own’

Jerome Ngwenya acted without authority, LRC says

Land Reform Minister Thoko Didiza, under whose portfolio the ITB falls, told parliament last week that she was in discussions with the board’s leadership over the “deficit budget”, which she had not allowed them to present because this was “not advisable”.

Didiza unveils plan to reverse Ingonyama Trust leases

R39m to effect Ingonyama ruling

The ITB’s new chief executive, Vela Mngwengwe.  (Agriculture, land reform and rural development department)

Ingonyama Trust Board gets a new chief executive

But board chair Jerome Ngwenya’s cosying up to the presumptive Zulu king cements his position

Ingonyama Trust Board to appeal landmark leases ruling

The board’s chairperson has accused the judges who heard the case of not declaring they were interested parties in the case

Refunds due: The Ingonyama Trust manages land on behalf of the Zulu nation. Its chairperson Jerome Ngwenya faces an uncertain future as a new board is to be appointed. Photos: Delwyn Verasamy & David Harrison

Didiza moves on illegal KZN leases

The land reform minister bans Ingonyama Trust chair from taking court ruling on appeal

The trust’s officials couldn’t say how the money was invested because the information was not forthcoming from the ITB’s investment wing. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Court rules that Ingonyama Trust Board lease programme is unlawful

About R90-million collected in residential lease fees must be paid back to people living on ITB land

(Photo: Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Finance probe into the Ingonyama Trust Board goes ahead

The threat of legal action from ITB chairperson Jerome Ngwenya fails to halt forensic audit ordered by the land reform minister

Beyond trust: Umnini residents’ land along the South Coast is being sold to outsiders who build holiday homes. (Photo: Ihsaan Haffejee/New Frame)

Illegal land sales head to court

Two state departments have done nothing about the sale of people’s land in Umnini by an inkosi –and R2.5-million has still not been accounted for