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Extension Of Security Of Tenure Act

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Amendments to the Extension of Security of Tenure Act enable the formation of a land rights management board and land rights management committees to address tenure security, evictions, land rights disputes and land acquisition for settlement. Photo: File
AGRICULTURAL AND ALLIED WORKERS UNION

No dignity in displacement: Tenure insecurity in the Winelands

The conditions of people who work and live in South Africa’s farms today have remained the same as under apartheid. Will the new amendments in legislation bring about change?

  • Lungelo Mncwabe & Nokhetho Mhlanga
7 min read
Rural people are dispossessed and displaced by companies that collect awards for ESG credentials, corporate social investment and sector excellence. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
AGRICULTURE

Award-winning exploitation: South Africa’s sustainability façade unmasked

Rural people are dispossessed and displaced by companies that collect awards for ESG credentials, corporate social investment and sector excellence

  • Brian Adams
4 min read
The Supreme Court of Appeal has ruled in favour of a retired gardener and his wife living in Joostenbergvlakte. Illustration: Lisa Nelson
AGRICULTURAL ZONING

Court rules against eviction of couple living on rural land in Stellenbosch

The supreme court of appeal found the smallholding falls under the Extension of Security of Tenure Act, meaning the gardener and his wife have a right to stay

  • Ohene Yaw Ampofo-Anti
4 min read
House of cards: Despite constitutional assurances of gender equality and the right to housing, women find themselves up against patriarchal norms, unequal treatment under customary practices and little protection from the law. Photos: Seri
ABAHLALI BASEMJONDOLO

Female & Guardian | ‘Policies skewed against women’

UN report finds discrimination against women in land and housing programmes

  • Umamah Bakharia
5 min read
Women have fewer rights to access land for homesteads and businesses in rural South Africa than men. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
BANTUSTAN

Democratise land rights in communal areas to unlock the rural economy

The former homelands and bantustans could offer opportunities to pursue activities that would curb poverty and unemployment

  • Bulelwa Mabasa
8 min read
The eviction order served to the Gumede family after they were evicted.
ANC

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

  • Tshepiso Mabula ka Ndongeni
7 min read