Mail & Guardian
Mail & Guardian
department of land affairslatest news & developments
Excluded: Some of the claimants who have not got a cent from the MalaMala land claim meet in Lilydale, one of the 11 villages to which they moved after being evicted.  (Dennis Scully/Oxpeckers)

R1.1-billion land claim ‘captured’

This story was produced in partnership with Pulitzer Center. Details of the land claim settlement for MalaMala, one of South Africa’s most exclusive game reserves, are unlikely…

Minister: Land grabs ‘out of touch with reality’

Land Reform Minister Gugile Nkwinti says the idea of claiming land without compensation is "out of touch with reality".

How to grow communal land use

Subsistence farmers should be helped to increase yields and find profitable markets, says researcher.

Land Bank chief’s vanishing act

Sacked Land Bank chief Phil Mohlahlane was involved in an extraordinary property deal involving R2.7m, but has failed to follow through on the deal.

Who owns what land in South Africa?

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.

End of the giant farms

There is no place for large farms in South Africa and some areas of game parks should be distributed to the landless, says a top land official.

A slow, dry death

The Karoo town of Merweville is going through the worst drought in nearly 50 years, writes Pearlie Joubert.