Land Claims

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.