President Jacob Zuma says that the Land Holdings Bill does not affect foreign nationals who are planning to buy homes for residences in South Africa.
It’s 25 years since Madiba’s release from prison and the unbanning of political parties. Former minister Mosibudi Mangena asks what’s changed.
The ANC top brass have proposed limiting the amount of land South Africans can own and the party won’t wait for the law to be tested constitutionally.
All people should be treated equally so that the land questions are dealt with justly and fairly.
The communities of Enon and Bersheba in the Eastern Cape are locked in a stalemate over the transfer of title deeds with the land reform department.
After 13 years of government stalling, about 18 000 Hilton College Estate labour tenants will have their case heard in the Land Claims Court.
ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe faced farmers’ questions about land reform, food security, labour unrest and agricultural policy inconsistencies.
Land reform is in the spotlight again after an amendment to 1994’s Restitution of Land Rights Act. Here are seven facts to consider.
A Wiser panel has highlighted how old traditional barriers still exist for issues surrounding land reform and ownership in South Africa.
A raucous exchange over who stole whose land led to the eviction of EFF MPs from Parliament – after which ANC leaders took up their fight.
The land reform policy emanates from the ANC’s 2012 policy conference held, and was approved by the national conference, says minister Gugile Nkwinti.
Those wanting to lodge land claims now have another five years in which to do so, says Land Reform Minister Gugile Nkwinti.
President Jacob Zuma has signed the Restitution of Land Rights Amendment Bill into law, his office said on Monday.
An ANC NEC member has reported that the controversial new land reform proposals didn’t emanate from the party’s 2012 Mangaung conference resolutions.
The DA has questioned why government has made such a "profound departure" from the land reform model proposed in its National Development Plan.
M&G readers air their views on religion and the Constitution, land reform and the Israel-Palestine conflict.
As South Africa goes to the polls, we look at how President Jacob Zuma has campaigned around key issues in the run-up to elections.
Giving half of SA’s commercial farms over to workers may be beyond the state’s wherewithal.
Land Reform Minister Gugile Nkwinti hopes to fast track the third phase of District Six development to have the elderly in houses by Christmas.
Speaking at the opening of the National House of Traditional Leaders, Jacob Zuma says laws governing land reform are in favour of land owners.
The Bill that will see the land restitution process being re-opened has been passed following a heated and emotional debate in the National Assembly.
A spat between Helen Zille and journalist Carien du Plessis has turned ugly after Zille brought race into the debate in a rather personal attack.
The irony of two "tribal" Bills that serve the interests of chiefs over ordinary citizens appears to be lost on the ANC, writes Aninka Claassens.
Land Acquisition Strategy officials have made a habit of peddling disinformation, says department of rural development and land reform’s Hilton Toolo.
It’s good election rhetoric but the main problems dogging farm redistribution are not being addressed, say Ben Cousins and Ruth Hall.
The party seems to have realised that it cannot continue with its hardline stance and has made significant policy shifts since the July poll.
North West Premier Thandi Modise has returned six farms in the Ratlou municipality after they were taken from the community through the 1913 Land Act.
Critics argue the restitution policy has done little to improve food security or the agribusiness sector in the country.
One of the democratic government’s biggest challenges has been to undo the notorious Natives Land Act of 1913 with land reform.
Zim is reconsidering compensating white commercial farmers whose farms were seized during the chaotic 2000 land reform process, the M&G has learnt.
Rural Development and Land Reform Minister Gugile Nkwinti has disputed claims that the government will not meet its reform target.
In this edited extract of Zimbabwe Takes Back Its Land, the writers argue that land redistribution in Zimbabwe was inevitable.