Latest articles on Land Issues

‘Giyani’ translates to viewers

Article Zaza Hlalethwa - 12 Apr 2019

After what feels like forever, Xitsonga speakers get to see themselves represented on the small screen

Madiba becomes one with the elements

Article Kwanele Sosibo - 31 Aug 2018

In 'Mandela’s Roots' Bonile Bam allows the viewer to fill in where the open-ended images take them

Khoi San protesters demand recognition at ANC conference

Article Lucas Ledwaba - 16 Dec 2017

The group is there to demand recognition as the first indigenous people in the land which now makes up the Republic of South Africa.

The strange places we misplace power

Article Staff Reporter - 6 Oct 2017

"The power we attribute to the people in whose name apartheid was made is perhaps too generous at times and too limited to the power to have things".

Pioneer land ruling puts justice first

Article Serjeant At The & Bar Author - 23 May 2017

A welcome Constitutional Court judgment puts paid to a conservative legal view of ownership

Gigaba: ‘We’ll work within the law to transform SA’

Article Matuma Letsoalo Author - 5 May 2017

Malusi Gigaba says the land issue must be resolved speedily to avoid Zimbabwe-style invasions.

Chewing the land fat (and fillet)

Article Raeesa Pather - 13 May 2016

Dinnertime banter made way for political debate when the ‘Tipgate’ Oxford Rhodes scholar Ntokozo Qwabe dined with like-minded supporters this week.

Khaya Dlanga: Lessons from Mugabe

Article Staff Reporter - 4 Jun 2013

Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe might have taken flack for his policies, but South Africans could learn from him about being masters of their destinies.

Landed in debt

Article Staff Reporter - 1 Apr 2010

The R6-billion figure emerged from a government answer to a Democratic Alliance question in Parliament last week.

The battle for Constantia

Article Staff Reporter - 1 Jul 2009

Several prime properties in Constantia, which could have been used for the resettlement of about 80 land claimant families, are included in the land p

Metro invokes defunct law to gag media

Article Staff Reporter - 24 Oct 2008

The Ekurhuleni metro council invoked a defunct ordinance from 1939 to ban the media and public from a secret meeting about controversial land issues.

Land Bank head in new probe

Article Staff Reporter - 30 Sep 2008

Newly appointed Director General of Agriculture, Njabulo Nduli, is understood to be leading the charge against Mohlahlane.

High price for a cheap car

Article Staff Reporter - 18 Sep 2008

State accused of stealing land and livelihoods for a factory that now lies empty.

Wild Coast needs a one-stop tourism shop

Article Staff Reporter - 17 Sep 2008

The communities of the Wild Coast drink from polluted waterholes shared with dogs and livestock. There are no toilets. Medical facilities are rare.

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