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Stolen sand: Small-scale sand miners load gravel onto a truck in Seleteng, GaMphahlele. The pit was left open by large-scale unlicensed sand miners, who don’t rehabilitate the land. (Lucas Ledwaba/Mukurukuru Media)

Municipality’s dodgy sand scandal

Lepelle-Nkumpi allegedly paid millions to illegal miners for gravel to use in major building projects

Brothers in conservation want to restore indigenous knowledge

Dr Johan Wentzel and Dr Ephraim Mabena are tied together by a common passion

Big man evictions: A resident of Mokwalakwala farm walks amid the ruins of homes of families who have lived there for generations. (Lucas Ledwaba/Mukurukuru Media)

Community reduced to squatting on their ancestral land

A Limpopo property mogul has reduced to rubble the homes of people whose families have lived there for more than 200 years

The Special Investigating Unit argued that the concourt should not entertain a cynical attempt to claw back the millions made in the scandal. (Oupa Nkosi/M&G)

ConCourt to rule on farm tenant claims

The farm tenants won in the Land Claims Court but the Supreme Court of Appeal overturned this

Limpopo premier Chupu Mathabatha says the province’s financial situation is steadily improving. (Photo: Antonio Muchave)

Jobs, jobs, jobs for Limpopo

Premier Chupu Mathabatha paints a picture of a prosperous future for the province

Limpopo Premier Stanley Mathabatha sacked the mayors, but the party said they’d remain. (Thulani Mbele/ Sowetan/Gallo Images)

ANC fudges over fired VBS mayors

Its reaction ranges from hardline dismissal to pussy-footing rehabilitation and redeployment

Somkhele’s residents have decided to take their case to the Supreme Court of Appeal after a high court ruling went against them in their battle with Tendele Coal Mining. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

KZN mine fight goes on, despite ruling

KwaZulu-Natal villagers are fighting mining they say violates their land rights and harms the environment

Platinum mining, evident from the trail of dust in the distance, could be a source of income for residents, one which Bapedi royals want to explore from Thulare III’s seat in Mohlaletse village. (Lucas Ledwaba/Mukurukuru Media)

Bapedi peace bid on shaky ground

The king designate wants reconciliation to rebuild the nation but his opponents are not bending

Although amaHlubi regularly honour their heritage, the government is still to recognise them as a nation with a rightful king, Inkosi Langabilalele II, and their land. (Paul Botes/M&G)

amaHlubi’s battle against colonial legacy heads to high court

One of South Africa’s oldest nations is fighting for recognition of its king, language and ancestral land

(Lucas Ledwaba)

This land is our chemist

A group of men harvest medicinal plants, which they then process and sell, but it’s a tough trade

Tebogo Hlangwane wants to increase her production of cucumbers but can’t get a loan from the bank because she farms on tribal land and cannot use it as collateral. (Lucas Ledwaba)

Black farmers fall in the furrows

They have the skills to farm successfully but need financing from banks and post-settlement support from the state

Team Africa’s Al-Farouq Aminu and Harrison Barnes of Team World. (Getty Images)

Rural life under the yoke of baas and chief

The land committee in Mpumalanga and Limpopo heard stories marked by heartbreak, anger, confusion, willingness and fear

Mosiuoa Lekota was remembered as a towering figure of South Africa’s liberation struggle

Another day of terror for Lekota

Many are questioning Lekota’s opposition to proposed changes to Section 25 of the Constitution

Tempers have been on the boil since the hearings started in Marble Hall on Wednesday

Cops step in to stop DA, EFF members in land hearing brawl

Order was restored after EFF leader Julius Malema and committee chairperson Vincent Smith appealed for calm

While many expressed admiration for EFF leader Julius Malema saying he had been instrumental in pushing for the debate on land

Hard day for Lekota at land hearings

Lekota endured a difficult day, getting stick from members of the public for his opposition to proposed amendments to Section 25 of the Constitution

Trump, who has threatened to impose tariffs on European autos and auto parts, said it was his tough stance that brought the European leader to the bargaining table. (Reuters)

Section 25 hearings underscore the racial economic divide

Present were white landowners with their 4x4s and landless black people from shantytowns, who came in minibuses

(David Harrison/M&G)

Malema steals the show at Limpopo land hearings

The presence of the EFF leader left many residents, who came to day two of the hearings, star-struck

Malema lost his cool and appeared to be chastising Lekota while members of the public were making oral submissions.

Juju and Lekota tiff mars Limpopo land hearings

Proceedings were brought to a halt as security intervened between the two MPs.

Restitution: In the village of Ga-Masemola in the Sekhukhune district of Limpopo. There are still 1 866 outstanding land claims in the province that were lodged before the original 1998 cut-off date

Shaky start to Limpopo land hearings

Proposals to amend the Restitution of Land Rights Act have been labelled a ‘political tick-box exercise’ by community members

The Listeriosis crisis affected not only Tiger Brands, but the industry as a whole

Lives in limbo as despair seeps into mining ghost town

Jobless residents who were dependent on the shuttered Bokoni mine are battling to survive. They have now asked the government to step in