Thirty years on, the patience of the poor is wearing thin as they are subjected to tardy, disrespectful service
A conservation project has brought together biodiversity, habitat protection, cultural heritage and community conservation
Bulelwa Mabasa tells the story of how her love for land reform and justice is tied to her family and upbringing
Endless court cases and threats plague community of South Africa’s most costly restitution settlement
Near Makhanda in the Eastern Cape in the village of Salem is a cricket pitch that is said to be the oldest in the country. Watered by blood and trauma, rolled with frontier nostalgia and contemporary paranoia, how does it play?
A key figure in the return of more than 1 000 claimants to Cape Town’s inner city, Shahied Ajam was working on a multi-billion rand land restitution project
While the ANC in Parliament found itself defending the presence of FW de Klerk at the State of the Nation address last week, the government was also — in court this time — defending an apartheid-era law
On paper, the Bino family of Kowa (formerly Elliot), Eastern Cape, are a land reform success story. In 2000, they applied with their relatives to pool their government subsidies and buy the 500-hectare Killcholoumkill farm, which the government had bought from a white commercial farmer for the purposes of land reform. Over the past 20 […]
Land expropriation can only take place politically and unrestrained by the law
A clan’s claim to prime areas of the capital has been dogged by controversy
It has been largely successful but limited by family fights and an urban land shortage
‘Land reform has never been just a nice-to-do. Both for reasons of equity and to provide a base for economic growth, it has always been a have-to-do’
In 1902, there were already stirrings of people who were resisting being thrown off the land
South Africa’s land policy is flailing around in the dark, with the haziest of understandings of how well or how badly land reform is doing
The land debate: from original sin to justice. After heated arguments at the December conference, the ANC still doesn’t have a plan
But the ANC does not yet have a policy for its decision to expropriate land without compensation
The land debate has to be approached calmly and responsibly says Barclays Africa Group chief executive Maria Ramos.
The question of land is about rectifying skewed patterns of ownership and recognising its importance in identity
Restitution needs an efficient process with clear principles to fulfil spiritual and material needs
He said, although the government was aware it needed to accelerate land expropriation, he urged South Africans to use constitutional means to get land
Former homeland residents won their restitution claims but delays in property transfers and compensation grants mean the land now lies derelict.
The current Regulation of Land Holdings Bill raises so many problems and questions that serious challenges are inevitable.
An SAHRC report says that poor research capacity, delays, incomplete surveys and problems calculating land value are some of the problems faced.
Riemvasmaakers celebrated their return to the land in 1994 from which they were forcibly removed in the 1970s. But their joy was short-lived.
Illovo Malawi is locked in a dispute with farmers who claim it has occupied their land for decades
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.
Makuleke Contract Park is the winner of the Community Conservation Award.
The centenary of the Natives Land Act has revealed that the dominant understanding of the Act is that it was a fundamental cause of land dispossession
Expelled ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema believes bloodshed will help him get South Africa’s land and mineral resources, according to a report.
To realise economic empowerment, the land commission in South Africa has to consider other options too, writes Bernadette Atuahene.
The ANC announced at its policy conference that the party plans to do away with its "willing seller, willing buyer" policy for land restitution.