Land Issues
latest news & developments‘Giyani’ translates to viewers
After what feels like forever, Xitsonga speakers get to see themselves represented on the small screen
Madiba becomes one with the elements
In ‘Mandela’s Roots’ Bonile Bam allows the viewer to fill in where the open-ended images take them
Khoi San protesters demand recognition at ANC conference
The group is there to demand recognition as the first indigenous people in the land which now makes up the Republic of South Africa.
The strange places we misplace power
"The power we attribute to the people in whose name apartheid was made is perhaps too generous at times and too limited to the power to have things".
Pioneer land ruling puts justice first
A welcome Constitutional Court judgment puts paid to a conservative legal view of ownership
Gigaba: ‘We’ll work within the law to transform SA’
Malusi Gigaba says the land issue must be resolved speedily to avoid Zimbabwe-style invasions.
Chewing the land fat (and fillet)
Dinnertime banter made way for political debate when the ‘Tipgate’ Oxford Rhodes scholar Ntokozo Qwabe dined with like-minded supporters this week.
Khaya Dlanga: Lessons from Mugabe
Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe might have taken flack for his policies, but South Africans could learn from him about being masters of their destinies.
Landed in debt
The R6-billion figure emerged from a government answer to a Democratic Alliance question in Parliament last week.
The battle for Constantia
Several prime properties in Constantia, which could have been used for the resettlement of about 80 land claimant families, are included in the land p
Bloem land price blows up
Free State Premier Ace Magashule has been dragged into a dirty fight over the sale of prime land to a Bloemfontein businessman.
Metro invokes defunct law to gag media
The Ekurhuleni metro council invoked a defunct ordinance from 1939 to ban the media and public from a secret meeting about controversial land issues.
‘New land Act like apartheid’
Communities are nervous about the handing over of control of communally owned land to traditional leaders for administration.
Land Bank head in new probe
Newly appointed Director General of Agriculture, Njabulo Nduli, is understood to be leading the charge against Mohlahlane.
High price for a cheap car
State accused of stealing land and livelihoods for a factory that now lies empty.