President Jacob Zuma’s speech lacked a comprehensive plan to address job creation but he promised to investigate civil servants’ remuneration.
The facts are few but there have bee logistical and political reasons why the state is dragging its feet.
Proposals for the redistribution of land found in the government’s land reform green paper would come into effect as early as March next year.
Jacob Zuma has never proposed anything coherent because, more often than not, he misdiagnoses the causes of SA’s challenges, writes Floyd Shivambu.
Some industry experts say President Jacob Zuma’s latest proposal for equitable land reform will need to be refined before it can be implemented.
President Jacob Zuma has a new land reform plan that includes the formation of district committees to assist in land distribution and financing.
In a meeting of regional heads, the African Christian Democratic Party said policies on nationalisation and land reform were scaring away investors.
To realise economic empowerment, the land commission in South Africa has to consider other options too, writes Bernadette Atuahene.
Agriculture Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson has revealed South Africa will pursue far more radical land reform policies in the future.
DA MPL Anthony Benadie says criminal charges will be laid against ANC Youth League deputy president Ronald Lamola over his comments on land reform.
The ANC Youth League has insisted that Section 25 of the Constitution, which deals with property ownership, be amended.
The ANC in the Northern Cape has given its blessing to more aggressive land reform, but drawn the line at the wholesale nationalisation of mines.
The FW de Klerk Foundation says the green paper on land reform is a document of racial mobilisation against white farmers.
<b>Percy Zvomuya</b> examines a book that comes to some surprising conclusions about the country’s so-called farm invasions.
Gwede Mantashe says land reform will be addressed as a matter of urgency by the ANC and the state, "but we’re not planning another Zimbabwe".
Cabinet minister Derek Hanekom has told farmers the failure of the willing buyer, willing seller land reform system was government’s fault.
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The land questions continues to be a sensitive issue and must be handled with care because it can sow racial divsions.
Pieter Mulder’s controversial take on land reform will win him few friends, especially among the far right.
Freedom Front Plus leader Pieter Mulder has expanded on his comments about land reform, saying the real issue is ensuring food security.
Subsistence farmers should be helped to increase yields and find profitable markets, says researcher.
Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe says government has no need to change the Constitution to achieve its land reform targets.
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The Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies says the green paper on land reform isn’t unconstitutional, but it is "vague and insubstantial".
SA has reversed gains in its goal of transferring 30% of commercial farmland to blacks by 2014 after aspirant farmers resold land bought for them.
The draft green paper on land reform, released on Wednesday, proposes a single reconfigured four-tier system of land reform.
Foreign ownership of South African land is set for a radical change in terms of the green paper on land reform approved by the Cabinet this week.
MalaMala, the world-renowned game reserve, is involved in a land-claim dispute that could determine the future of government’s land-reform programme.
A farm owner is offering to ensure a transfer of management skills to prospective farmers, writes <b>Kwanele Sosibo</b>.
President Jacob Zuma should urgently clarify the government’s position on land expropriation, the Democratic Alliance said on Sunday.
Report says the South African Communist Party is in disarray and its leaders are after government positions.
President Jacob Zuma’s announcement of a "new trajectory for land reform in South Africa" is nothing new, according to trade unionists.
Acquiring 30% of arable land by 2014 is impossible, Land Reform Minister Gugile Nkwinti says, after a "refreshing" meeting with by farmers’ unions.
Land sector commentators have widely criticised Julius Malema’s call for the expropriation of white-owned farm land without compensation.