Giving half of SA’s commercial farms over to workers may be beyond the state’s wherewithal.
The 100th birthday of the 1913 Natives Land Act provides an opportunity for SA to evaluate progress made in land redistribution, says the ANC.
In this edited extract of Zimbabwe Takes Back Its Land, the writers argue that land redistribution in Zimbabwe was inevitable.
The facts are few but there have bee logistical and political reasons why the state is dragging its feet.
Jacob Zuma has never proposed anything coherent because, more often than not, he misdiagnoses the causes of SA’s challenges, writes Floyd Shivambu.
To realise economic empowerment, the land commission in South Africa has to consider other options too, writes Bernadette Atuahene.
A summit should be held to decide how land can best be allocated between food, infrastructure, and housing needs for the next 100 years, says Tau-SA.
Farm invasions are "inevitable" should white South Africans not voluntarily hand over land to the government, says the ANC Youth League.
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/ 24 February 2012
The land questions continues to be a sensitive issue and must be handled with care because it can sow racial divsions.
The Young Communist League has called for deputy agriculture minister Pieter Mulder to resign after comments he made about land reform redistribution.
Government may put restrictions on the sale of land to foreigners as it aims to transfer ownership as part of a drive to correct racial imbalances.
Cosatu says it supports the need to change the Constitution to bolster land redistribution, but does not support expropriation without compensation.
Frustrated claimants are dying of old age while government dithers. Glynnis Underhill reports.
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/ 22 February 2010
Land restitution seems to be the biggest loser this year in the land budget.
President Jacob Zuma on Monday said the government is planning to make changes to the willing-buyer, willing-seller method of land redistribution.