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Labour tenant claimant Mndeni Sikhakhane with his two granddaughters. Sikhakhane was one of the claimants in the Hilton College. Photo: Max Bastard

Signs of hope for apartheid labour tenants after long wait for land rights

Less than half the claims by former labour tenants, who were given access to land during apartheid in exchange for working on farms, have been finalised

The eviction order served to the Gumede family after they were evicted.

Shadow of eviction looms over farm dwellers

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

Municipalities have failed to prioritise the rights of labour tenants and farmworkers

Farm dwellers fight to access water and other basic services

Municipalities have failed to prioritise the rights of labour tenants and farmworkers

Too late: Bhekindlela Mwelase died in November last year, six months before the Constitutional Court dignified his claim to the land that he had worked on as a labour tenant for most of his life. (Max Bastard/African Eyes Photography)

State’s failures impede land reform

Scathing Constitutional Court judgment bemoans land reform department’s inability to get job done in time

King Goodwill Zwelithini. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

‘Zwelithini is not collecting rent, the Ingonyama Trust is’

​King Goodwill Zwelithini has distanced himself from the court action taken against the Ingonyama Trust Board because of its lease programme

The ANC wants to ‘align Eskom’s message to our political message’ although the utility can still comment on ‘very technical’ issues.

Labour tenants to be first in line

They live on the land and till the land, but don’t own the land. Expropriation could remedy this

Ever since he returned home from prison, Andrew Mlangeni’s children and grandchildren have been eager to see his father’s final resting place.

Mlangeni unearths the land of his father

Lucas Ledwaba talks to ANC stalwart Andrew Mlangeni about his experience of dispossession and land restitution