Land Rights
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Sbonelo Thandolwenkosi Nkomo
For Sbonelo Thandolwenkosi Nkomo, 34, the law begins where the map often ends. Raised in a remote farming community in KwaZulu-Natal, he became the first person there to attend…
Buhle Booi
For Buhle Booi, the fight for land and housing begins with listening. Before campaigns are launched or policies challenged, he believes lasting change starts by helping people…
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?
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
Lebogang Seale’s book tracks a century of injustice in his family’s quest for land
One Hundred Years of Dispossession: My Family’s Quest to Reclaim Our Land traces his family’s ongoing struggle to strengthen their restitution case
Women have fewer rights over land ownership than men in rural South Africa, study finds
The report by the Commission for Gender Equality says while the country’s Constitution and laws aim to fight discrimination based on sex and race, cultural norms make this…
Farmers fear loss of land to Motsepe Foundation citrus project
The foundation has injected millions into the project and the Limpopo Department of Agriculture and Rural Development has also approved millions in funding, but farmers say they…
Constitutional triumph on matrimonial property rights
Access to land ownership and property rights is inextricably linked to self-determination.
‘Scrap Ingonyama’s unlawful leases’
Customary law and residents’ customary rights have been degraded, the high court has heard
Farm dwellers fight to access water and other basic services
Municipalities have failed to prioritise the rights of labour tenants and farmworkers
The landscape of meaning: mechanism and memory in depictions of disaster
‘There Are Mechanisms in Place’ posits that the all-encompassing physicality of the landscape does not reference an ‘abstract’ danger, but one that is created by both nature and…
2018, the year of women’s rights?
A new report by Amnesty International has urged governments around the world to prioritise making resources available for the empowerment of women
We need to debate the Ingonyama Trust
King Zwelithini has threatened violence and legal resistance, and secession of the “Zulu nation” and KwaZulu-Natal from South Africa
Ingonyama Trust strips women of land
A rule by King Goodwill Zwelithini’s trust board — that only men can sign leases — is being challenged in the high court
Sons and daughters of the soil seek to claim the land that shaped them
There are plans to build a memorial to honour the 44 men who died during the unprotected strike that culminated in the Marikana massacre.