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By Sheree Bega

Friday

/ 20 December 2022

‘My Land Obsession’ is a call for social justice

Bulelwa Mabasa tells the story of how her love for land reform and justice is tied to her family and upbringing

By Bongeka Gumede

National

/ 25 September 2020

All mahala say claimants in R1-billion Mala Mala land claim

Endless court cases and threats plague community of South Africa’s most costly restitution settlement

By Lucas Ledwaba

Sport

/ 15 July 2020

It’s just not cricket

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?

By Niren Tolsi

National

/ 8 June 2020

District Six hero dies before seeing his dream of return fulfilled

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

By Lester Kiewit

Article

/ 19 February 2020

EFF tackles apartheid legislation

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

By Franny Rabkin

Article

/ 13 January 2020

Land reform is about more than just land

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 […]

By Anna Majavu

Article

/ 23 January 2019

Housing crisis inextricably entwined with land occupations

Land expropriation can only take place politically and unrestrained by the law

By Staff Reporter

Article

/ 14 September 2018

Legal land battle looms for Pretoria East

A clan’s claim to prime areas of the capital has been dogged by controversy

By Lucas Ledwaba

Article

/ 10 August 2018

Editorial: Give clarity on land restitution

‘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’

By Editorial

Article

/ 15 March 2018

The Land is ours: An extract from Tembeka Ngcukaitobi’s new book

In 1902, there were already stirrings of people who were resisting being thrown off the land

By Tembeka Ngcukaitobi

Article

/ 12 March 2018

South Africa’s land debate is clouded by misrepresentation and lack of data

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

By Ben Cousins

Article

/ 5 March 2018

â€‹Unembargoed: March 2 to 8

The land debate: from original sin to justice. After heated arguments at the December conference, the ANC still doesn’t have a plan

By Staff Reporter

Article

/ 2 March 2018

EFF knows what it wants on land

But the ANC does not yet have a policy for its decision to expropriate land without compensation

By Govan Whittles

Article

/ 1 March 2018

Keep an open mind on the land debate: Maria Ramos

The land debate has to be approached calmly and responsibly says Barclays Africa Group chief executive Maria Ramos.

By Lynley Donnelly

Article

/ 28 February 2018

Land Question: It’s about identity

The question of land is about rectifying skewed patterns of ownership and recognising its importance in identity

By Staff Reporter

Article

/ 5 January 2018

Wanted: A credible evangelist for land

Restitution needs an efficient process with clear principles to fulfil spiritual and material needs

By Songezo Zibi

Article

/ 24 February 2017

Ace plays his hand on leased land

He said, although the government was aware it needed to accelerate land expropriation, he urged South Africans to use constitutional means to get land

By Matuma Letsoalo Author

Article

/ 31 March 2016

Prime farmland lies fallow amid restitution delays

Former homeland residents won their restitution claims but delays in property transfers and compensation grants mean the land now lies derelict.

By Kwanele Sosibo

Article

/ 14 May 2015

Bitter fight looms over land

The current Regulation of Land Holdings Bill raises so many problems and questions that serious challenges are inevitable.

By Lynley Donnelly

Article

/ 18 August 2014

Hurdles remain in land claims process – SAHRC report

An SAHRC report says that poor research capacity, delays, incomplete surveys and problems calculating land value are some of the problems faced.

By Sapa

Article

/ 7 August 2014

Poor community gets no returns from multimillion-rand farm

Riemvasmaakers celebrated their return to the land in 1994 from which they were forcibly removed in the 1970s. But their joy was short-lived.

By Tabelo Timse &

Africa

/ 1 August 2014

Sugar wars: 35 years of bitter feuds

Illovo Malawi is locked in a dispute with farmers who claim it has occupied their land for decades

By Collins Mtika

Article

/ 27 February 2014

Land reform: Find a good lawyer, says Zuma

Speaking at the opening of the National House of Traditional Leaders, Jacob Zuma says laws governing land reform are in favour of land owners.

By Sapa

Article

/ 25 February 2014

Land reform Bill passed against political ruckus

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.

By Sapa

Article

/ 5 July 2013

Land restitution helps conserve the Kruger

Makuleke Contract Park is the winner of the Community Conservation Award.

By Yazeed Kamaldien

Analysis

/ 14 June 2013

1913 land act: A longer history of dispossession

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

By Staff Reporter