On the back of the announcement that the government would allocate more land to be leased by emerging farmers, President Cyril Ramaphosa says that beneficiaries will also be trained in financial management and enterprise development
Land reform minister announces an intensified programme to allocate arable land to emerging farmers
The City of Cape Town tacitly condones it when wealthy landowners behave illegally, something that is not the case if you’re poor
The politically connected Nelani family is suspected of thwarting a couple’s decade-long attempt to formalise the lease for the state-owned land they have farmed productively for 31 years
The majority of previously dispossessed people choose money over property, while land reform has become the preserve of the affluent. Is there another way to think about land reform?
When South Africa eventually emerges from the fog of the Covid-19 crisis, will policy makers be ready to grasp the nettle of farm scale, and promote the large-scale redistribution of land to small-scale producers?
Even before the Covid-19 pandemic, the situation in Zimbabwe could not have been much worse
We should look to the Philippines, where barangays, or neighbourhood governments, help to empower communities
While the ANC in Parliament found itself defending the presence of FW de Klerk at the State of the Nation address last week, the government was also — in court this time — defending an apartheid-era law
Adelaide Tantsi Dube’s poem was published in 1913, the year Africans were stripped of their land
The pace of land reform needs to be increased. But taking power from the courts and giving it to the executive will only create more policy uncertainty
Once again, political expediency has trumped principled action
Despite alleged abuses of power and people’s trust, the ANC appears to have abandoned plans to reform the controversial Ingonyama Trust Board
On paper, the Bino family of Kowa (formerly Elliot), Eastern Cape, are a land reform success story. In 2000, they applied with their relatives to pool their government subsidies and buy the 500-hectare Killcholoumkill farm, which the government had bought from a white commercial farmer for the purposes of land reform. Over the past 20 […]
Constitutional changes can’t resolve the real causes of slow and fraught transformation of property ownership
According to a new report, the poor remain on the sidelines of farm redistribution
‘Community consent’ is now required for mining but in practice this further benefits elite interests
Scathing Constitutional Court judgment bemoans land reform department’s inability to get job done in time
Section 25 of the Constitution is the key but a new Expropriation Act is also urgently needed
‘Over 25 years of democracy, the government’s attempts at land restitution have been lambasted for their slow pace and all-round inefficiency’
The ANC proposes to continue working with large agricultural businesses, an approach that has to date marginalised small-scale farmers
Eight provinces voted in favour, and one province voted against the process to amend Section 25 of Constitution
Germany has more than 600 companies operating in South Africa, providing more than 100 000 jobs
S&P would likely wait for the next budget, when there is more clarity on the fiscal position before taking a decision
The president said the government would assist the community by developing their ability to create sustainable income and jobs from the land
Attempts at agricultural transformation in Africa have failed largely because of revenge and populist and ideologically driven reforms
Redistribution must favour the poor and include the ability to make the land productive
A clan’s claim to prime areas of the capital has been dogged by controversy
Brian Whittaker explains how expropriation without compensation will require careful management by the state
It’s not only the original property owners but also young people who dream about land
Among the plans are increased funds for black farmers and agri-processing to create jobs
‘Land reform has never been just a nice-to-do. Both for reasons of equity and to provide a base for economic growth, it has always been a have-to-do’