The government will introduce a new draft policy on land tenure aimed at speeding up its programme to give land to landless black South Africans.
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/ 22 January 2010
South African civil rights movement AfriForum has served papers on the Zimbabwean government over its land-seizure programme, it said on Friday.
Many farms redistributed in SA’s land-reform programme are failing because the beneficiaries have little or no interest in agriculture, says the DA.
An armed mob has invaded a major land reform project in Malelane, Mpumalanga, a media report said on Wednesday.
Deserted and without running water, an ostrich farm near Pretoria is an example of SA’s wobbly efforts to bring black South Africans on to farmland.
Land valued at billions of rands has been given to rural Mpumalanga communities, the provincial agriculture and land land department said on Monday.
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/ 28 January 2009
The ANC may have to scale down some of its development programmes, SA Communist Party deputy general-secretary Jeremy Cronin said on Wednesday.
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/ 23 January 2009
Despite a land audit last year, it is still unclear who owns what land in SA. The land reform programme seems to be progressing at a snail’s pace.
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/ 13 January 2009
A top Zimbabwe judge has said a regional court had no jurisdiction to rule that 78 white farmers could keep land lost to Harare’s land-reform scheme.
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/ 28 November 2008
A tribunal ruled on Friday that 78 white Zimbabweans can keep their farms because the government’s land-reform scheme discriminated against them.
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/ 29 October 2008
The DG of land affairs admitted on Wednesday that his department won’t achieve the target of 30% of agricultural land in black hands by 2014.
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/ 21 October 2008
The ANC call to abandon the willing buyer-willing seller land-redistribution policy is reckless, said agricultural union TAU SA on Monday.
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/ 17 September 2008
A regional tribunal on Wednesday dismissed the land claims of 343 black Zimbabwean farmers who argued they cannot move on to seized white-owned farms.
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/ 9 September 2008
The committee cited insufficient public consultation as the reason for setting aside the Bill, which was intended to accelerate land reform.
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/ 7 September 2008
South Africa’s slow-moving land-reform programme has so far failed to eradicate poverty, ANC leader Jacob Zuma said on Sunday.
Lack of support for emerging black farmers and mismanaged land reform are contributing to the ongoing woes of the Land Bank, say industry insiders.