By: Sizwe Sama Yende
Date: November 1st 2016
Source: City Press
Criminal charges have been laid relating to one of the biggest land claim scams in the country – potentially costing the government millions – but the rural development and land reform department says it knows nothing about it.…
By: James Macharia
Date: November 7th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
A far-left South African politician who wants to nationalize banks, mines and land said on Monday he would ask the Constitutional Court to scrap an apartheid-era law used to prosecute him over calls to occupy white-…
By: Ilze-Marie Le Roux
Date: November 9th 2016
Source: Eyewitness News South Africa
CAPE TOWN - Rural Development and Land Reform Deputy Minister Mcebisi Skwatsha says the land redistribution programme is on track despite “teething problems”.
Ministers of the Economic Cluster are responding to…
Date: 20 novembre 2016
Source: RFI
En Afrique du Sud, plusieurs personnalités ont appelé le gouvernement à accélérer sa réforme agraire face au mécontentement grandissant de la population quant à la redistribution des terres. Cette semaine le leader du parti d’opposition, les Combattants pour…
By: Mzingaye Brilliant Xaba and Monty J. Roodt
Date: January 4th 2017
Source: R News
South Africa’s land reform programme has suffered many failures and its beneficiaries have in many cases seen little or no improvements to their livelihoods.
Land reform remains a contested terrain or what land…
A court has ruled that companies must first seek permission from local communities if they plan to mine on their ancestral land. This represents a new achievement in land and mining rights for South Africa.
On 9 December 2018, the world will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the UN Declaration on…