South Africa’s land reform journey is still shaped by the legacies of colonial conquest and apartheid
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
Women sleep outside in the cold to stop what they consider mineral theft by a mining company, with state collusion
Endless court cases and threats plague community of South Africa’s most costly restitution settlement
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…
A Land Claims Court decision reversed on appeal has devastated weary labour tenant applicants
Panel at Western Cape land hearings receive conflicting ownership accounts and threats to defend land violently
But there is already polarisation, as some activists disagree with the racist rhetoric doing the rounds
Fed up with living in squalor, people in backyard shacks pegged out plots of land illegally
‘Where homesteads once stood now roams towering machinery, earth-moving monsters that have reduced the walls of Maremane to rubble’
The 50-year-old former president said the increased Chinese presence could threaten the Muslim-majority nation of 340 000
This week the Mail & Guardian is proud to publish a story that is a continuation of a new, specialised reporting genre,
Cases about the rights of the vulnerable are overshadowed by his legal-political games.
In her new novel, author Yewande Omotoso takes the political into a private space.
Labour tenants live in dire conditions and fear eviction. Meanwhile, many farmers have not been notified of claims on their land.
The Bakgatla-Ba-Kgafela community will hold the legal rights to land they were deprived of during apartheid after seven years of litigation.
Potentially a tourist magnet, the historic valley of the Zulu kings is at the centre of a land rights row.
Competing demands on land could ignite serious violence and people are being robbed of their rights, writes Aninka Claassens.
Land reform is in the spotlight again after an amendment to 1994’s Restitution of Land Rights Act. Here are seven facts to consider.
The "real king of the Basotho" has warned of civil war if his "seven million people" – the Bafokeng ba-Mmutla O-Jeoa-Tala – do not get what they want.
