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Claimants of District Six forced removals expect Rural Development and Land Reform Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane to explain why her department has stalled on plans to redevelop open land in the Cape Town CBD.(David Harrison/M&G)
CAPE TOWN

District Six claimants expect Nkoana-Mashabane to explain development delay

In March, her department missed a deadline to deliver a plan of action on the cost, scale, and modality of a District Six restitution programme

  • Lester Kiewit
2 min read
Helen Zille is the new chairperson of the DA’s federal council. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE

DA defends land reform successes

The party has reputed a report by the M&G, defending its land reform policies in the Western Cape as being the most successful in the country

  • Staff Reporter
2 min read
Nearly a quarter of a century after the end of apartheid
DEPARTMENT OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND

South Africa’s vexed land reform scores a rare success

After a 10-year legal battle, the Moletele have taken back the land from which they were evicted by members of the white minority nearly a century ago

  • Staff Reporter
4 min read
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE

No land reform before audit, says DA

Until government has completed an audit of what land it owns and in what condition it is in, land reform will be seriously compromised, says the DA.

  • Paul Vecchiatto
3 min read
GUGILE NKWINTI

SA struggles to meet land reform targets

SA has reversed gains in its goal of transferring 30% of commercial farmland to blacks by 2014 after aspirant farmers resold land bought for them.

  • Wendell Roelf
2 min read
Gwanya steps down
LAND REFORM

Gwanya steps down

As the tabling of the controversial green paper on land reform is delayed, DG quits for ‘a career in education’.

  • Yolandi Groenewald
3 min read