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COSATU

Cosatu’s new KZN leaders take on Ingonyama

The Cosatu in KwaZulu-Natal wants people who live on land controlled by the Ingonyama Trust to be given individual land tenure rights

  • Paddy Harper
3 min read
The Restitution of Land Rights Amendment Bill re-opens the restitution claims process that closed at the end of 1998 and gives claimants five years to lodge land claims.
LAND REFORM

President Zuma signs land bill into law

President Jacob Zuma has signed the Restitution of Land Rights Amendment Bill into law, his office said on Monday.

  • Sapa
1 min read
President Jacob Zuma said the law shouldn’t be ‘very difficult’ for land claimants and easy for ‘those who say I bought this land’.
ANDISIWE MAKINANA

No one will be left out of land claims process, says Zuma

President Jacob Zuma has asked traditional leaders to use their resources and help their communities reclaim land – with the help of a good lawyer.

  • Andisiwe Makinana
2 min read
The Constitution makes provision for the restitution of land to those who were dispossessed during apartheid rule. The Expropriation Act is not a land reform law
ANC

Land reform Bill passed against political ruckus

The Bill that will see the land restitution process being re-opened has been passed following a heated and emotional debate in the National Assembly.

  • Sapa
3 min read
In June last year there were 8 733 outstanding land claims from the first
GUGILE NKWINTI

State funds will foot land claim bills

The billions of rands needed each year for the next 15 years to settle new land claims will come from state funds, says the land reform minister.

  • Sapa
2 min read
ANC

ANC fast forwards vote-catching Bills

The ANC has pushed a number of high-profile amendments to a number of laws ahead of the upcoming elections.

  • Lynley Donnelly
3 min read
LAND ACT

Reviled Land Act is being re-enacted

The irony of two "tribal" Bills that serve the interests of chiefs over ordinary citizens appears to be lost on the ANC, writes Aninka Claassens.

  • Aninka Claassens
6 min read