It’s the new, new SA: The dark age of Zuma has been replaced by a Cyril lovefest— here’s what it looks like
‘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
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
The land issue has divided senior ANC members, with some, including President Jacob Zuma, calling for the Constitution to be amended.
A just and equitable settlement applies only to expropriation and even then it can’t be codified.
"Land reform is favouring agricultural businesses and sidelining the intended beneficiaries"
Giving people land and then depriving them of appropriate support to earn a living from the land is regressive
Mwelase case claimants are adamant about their right to acquire their ancestral land.
The ANC intends to speed up its land redistribution programme ahead of local government elections, sparking fears from economists and farming groups.
The proposed legislation better protects property owners — and is aligned with the Constitution.
Dinnertime banter made way for political debate when the Tipgate Oxford Rhodes scholar dined with like-minded supporters this week.
Readers write in about racism, land reform, health care reform and water leaks.
The agricultural sector has been left guessing because of contradictions and a lack of firm details when it comes to land reform.
Unconstitutional land expropriation could ruin South Africa’s bread basket.
There is no money for compensation, but 23 white-owned farms have been targeted.
The new challenge is to balance land rights and markets to ensure that farmlands are productive.
The current Regulation of Land Holdings Bill raises so many problems and questions that serious challenges are inevitable.
The need for land reform seems to be a no-brainer. So why is it marred by uncertainty?
What justification do we have for a black government massacring its own people?
The scale – and cost – of the task of sorting out and settling restitution claims is staggering.
Is the government’s mooted 12 000 hectare ‘ceiling’ on landownership practical – or even feasible?
Despite making all the right noises, South Africa has done little to correct its legacy of dispossession.
The Commercial Farmers’ Union said there had been at least 20 "incidents" on white-owned properties in recent weeks, with some being asked to leave.
The president was in top form, from "commending" Julius Malema and calling Mangosuthu Buthelezi the "voice of reason", to giving a history lesson.