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Shadow of eviction looms over farm dwellers

National Tshepiso Mabula ka Ndongeni - 29 Nov 2020

In part two of a series on the lives of farm dwellers, Tshepiso Mabula ka Ndongeni finds a community haunted by the scourge of eviction

Does the Expropriation Bill muddy the land question even further?

Politics Luke Feltham - 27 Oct 2020

Land ownership and its equitable distribution has floundered. Changes to a section of the constitution and the expropriation act are now before parliament, but do they offer any solution?

Finance probe into the Ingonyama Trust Board goes ahead

National Paddy Harper - 20 Oct 2020

The threat of legal action from ITB chairperson Jerome Ngwenya fails to halt forensic audit ordered by the land reform minister

How to whitewash colonial pain and trauma

Opinion Jonty Cogger & Robyn Park-Ross - 24 Sep 2020

Approval of the River Club development in Cape Town is reminiscent of those bulldozing spatial planners of apartheid

Review: The land is not to be outdone in ‘Dust’

Friday Kwanele Sosibo - 17 Sep 2020

Pieter du Plessis’s post-apocalyptic film throws up some interesting questions, but it also needs to work a little harder

The Portfolio: Tommy Busakhwe

Friday Tommy Busakhwe - 27 Aug 2020

Photographer Tommy Busakhwe, a participant in the Communities of the Kalahari Advocacy Project, uses his camera to tell stories of home, land and the people who live and work on it

Rich vigilantes have no fear of consequences

Opinion Jared Sacks - 27 Aug 2020

The City of Cape Town tacitly condones it when wealthy landowners behave illegally, something that is not the case if you’re poor

After seven years, displaced Zambian villagers might get land

Africa Juliana Nnoko-Mewanu - 18 May 2020

A high court ruling in Zambia could mean redistributed land and compensation for communities who were evicted for commercial farming

Avert forced removals by giving the rich’s land to the poor

Analysis Staff Reporter - 5 Jun 2014

The Lwandle evictions are symptomatic of a broader issue: our growing housing crisis.

Zim elections: MDC has promises galore

Africa Kudzai Mashininga - 12 Jul 2013

The opposition party's manifesto includes the vow to provide equitable access to land for all and create a million jobs by 2018.

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