Agricultural organisations across the racial spectrum spoke out on Monday against ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema’s land-grab talk.
Delegates at the ANC Youth League’s national conference broke into commissions on Saturday to discuss policy proposals.
Watch our short, sharp summary of what Julius Malema and Jacob Zuma said in their speeches to ANC Youth League delegates.
The standard story of personal loss on Zimbabwe’s farms is usually told by bitter white farmers; it is hardly ever told by the likes of Luke Tembani.
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/ 25 February 2011
Government is to pump R250-million into a fund to draw new and emerging entrants to the sector.
Zimbabwean police drove out scores of so-called war veterans after they declared themselves new owners of several tourist resorts, a minister said.
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/ 14 January 2011
President Zuma’s remarks in Polokwane on foreign land ownership will be clarified in the long awaited Green Paper on Land Reform.
President Jacob Zuma’s recent speech shows that land reform is on the government’s agenda but it’s still unclear exactly what is being proposed.
Agri SA is fully prepared to support a meaningful land-reform programme, the organisation’s president, Johannes Möller, said on Monday.
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/ 11 October 2010
South Africa risks losing its status as Africa’s agriculture hub as uncertainty over its land reform programme undermines its competitivenes.
The ANC Youth League was eyeing changes to the property clause in the Constitution after its ardent push for the nationalisation of mines.
Douglas Mhembere had only a plastic bag in hand when he took over a farm eight years ago under Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe’s land reforms.
SADC leaders on Tuesday gave themselves six months to review a stand-off between Zimbabwe and a regional court that ruled against land reforms.
Zimbabwe’s refusal to obey rulings by a regional court, relating to land reform, looks set to win a pass as a SADC summit wraps up Tuesday.
The department of rural development and land reform has said that foreigners will not be able to own land without the consent of local communities.
Thandi Wines is one of the few black-owned operations in a high-end business that like most commercial agriculture is still predominantly white-owned.
As the tabling of the controversial green paper on land reform is delayed, DG quits for ‘a career in education’.
A farmers’ group on Wednesday warned of an exodus of foreign investors from the country’s agriculture sector over land-reform policies.
The government has failed to pay R3,4-billion in post-settlement grants to beneficiaries of land reform, Land Reform Minister Gugile Nkwinti says.
Agri SA on Wednesday reiterated requests for urgent and in-depth discussions with the government to remove obstacles hampering land reform.
“Total failure” is an inaccurate way to describe Zimbabwe’s farming sector, despite its problems following land reform.
Agricultural union TAU-SA has expressed outrage at the state’s proposal for farmers to transfer 40% of their farming interests to black shareholders.
Without owning land, voting in South Africa meant nothing, ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema told a youth rally in the Northern Cape on Saturday.
The supremacy of the Constitution should not be taken for granted, but nationalisation is not an option, Land Minister Gugile Nkwinti says.
A warning by the land-reform minister that commercial farmers must cooperate to avoid a situation "worse than Zimbabwe" has drawn sharp reaction.
Rural Development and Land Reform Minister Gugile Nkwinti on Wednesday dismissed suggestions government intends to nationalise land.
The Democratic Alliance (DA) will oppose the adoption of a government land plan that proposes placing productive land under the control of the state.
The land reform department’s controversial call for land to be declared a national asset must be seen as a "cry for help".
Farmers using their land productively need not fear the government taking it, Deputy Rural Development Minister Joe Phaahla said on Wednesday.
Two political parties and a cultural organisation on Sunday vowed to oppose attempts by the government to change the country’s land ownership system.
The "use it or lose it" principle will be applied to redistributed farmland to ensure agricultural output does not decline further.
Land Reform Minister Gugile Nkwinti said on Friday it was impossible for the government to meet its land-reform target.