The deputy minister of rural development and land reform may assist more than 20 000 farm dwellers facing eviction in the Drakenstein municipality
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In 1994, 86% of land was white-owned. There had been an agreement that 30% would be transferred by 1999, the date has been shifted to 2025.
The National Assembly in February adopted a motion for a constitutional review allowing for the expropriation of land without compensation
Current land reform policy is so bogged down by bureaucracy that there’ll be no quick-fix solution
They live on the land and till the land, but don’t own the land. Expropriation could remedy this
South Africa’s land reform programme will fail if it continues to neglect smallholder farming
The party has reputed a report by the M&G, defending its land reform policies in the Western Cape as being the most successful in the country
Despite a court ruling the descendants of labour tenants in Hilton have still not got their land back
A resident, who said she feared reprisals if named, said: ‘Ever since the ‘squatters’ came… we are facing a torrid time…’
The land will be returned to people within the confines of the law, said President Ramaphosa during a Good Friday sermon
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She intends fighting to ensure land comes with water rights
Among the issues are the need to ensure food security in the future and whether expropriation of without compensation can happen through just the law
South Africa’s land policy is flailing around in the dark, with the haziest of understandings of how well or how badly land reform is doing
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The crisis caused by land expropriation without compensation will be resolved by opening up the economy and addressing historical inequalities
‘Dignity is not some manufactured sense of entitlement. Affirming a person’s dignity is to affirm their humanity’
But the ANC does not yet have a policy for its decision to expropriate land without compensation
The land debate has to be approached calmly and responsibly says Barclays Africa Group chief executive Maria Ramos.
Lamola said it was worrying that this had to be done by a party outside of the ANC but celebrated the fact that it was finally happening
Malema also emphasised that there was no turning back on their call for the state to own all the land in the country
The EFF proposes that a committee be established to make it possible for the state to expropriate land in the public interest, without compensation
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‘The Western Cape boasts a 62% success rate for "land reform farms", compared with a 92% failure rate in the rest of the country’
Mnangagwa has no option but to tackle land reform if he’s serious about getting Zimbabwe’s economy back on track.
There is very little clarity as to who owns what land in South Africa. A lack of reliable data and statistics doesn’t help.
The government’s land reform programme appears to be failing to promote the widespread productive use of land to provide household food security
After a 10-year legal battle, the Moletele have taken back the land from which they were evicted by members of the white minority nearly a century ago
The willing buyer, willing seller model is not working – but there is an alternative
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For more than 20 years a family has tried to transfer land to tenants, but all tiers of government fail to act.
While the party talks up the land question it is repressing popular struggles for land.
Calls for possible change to the Constitution and for state to set price tag on proper compensation
New legislation is likely to create a patchwork of land that will be impossible to farm sustainably
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