South Africa
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29 July 2019
Cape Town - An expert advisory panel on land reform and agriculture appointed by President Cyril Ramaphosa last year has released a final report with recommendations. It also gave the go-ahead for a constitutional amendment for expropriation of land without compensation, but with strict conditions…
6 June 2019
As climate change and population growth bring more water scarcity, drought-hit villages are are adapting - but conflict over limited water is growing
KWAMUSI, South Africa (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A At the height of the 2015 drought that parched South Africa's eastern KwaZulu-Natal province…
17 May 2019
Land redistribution through just and equitable means remains contentious in the South African political and judicial landscape. Under the apartheid rule, the distribution of land was aligned to race, with the minority white population allocated about 90% of arable and habitable land, while the…
7 May 2019
Land ownership and income inequality remain highly emotive subjects more than two decades after the end of apartheid in South Africa
JOHANNESBURG, May 7 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The South African government's promises of returning land to black South Africans taken during apartheid are…
8 April 2019
Some traditional leaders continue with the old ways of regarding women as minors who need to be represented by men, Inyanda National Land Movement says.
Sick and tired of always being allocated the back seat and being represented by men when it comes to land, a group of women are saying “enough…
3 April 2019
O embaixador de Portugal na África do Sul, Manuel Carvalho, disse hoje que o Governo português está "preocupado e atento" com a hipótese e termos dos procedimentos equacionados pelo executivo daquele país para expropriar terras sem compensação.
Estamos atentos ao assunto, as autoridades dizem que…
11 March 2019
Pretoria - The government was working tirelessly to ensure that land claims by communities forcefully removed from their property as a result of apartheid-era legislation were settled swiftly and claimants received compensation, President Cyril Ramaphosa has revealed.
He made the remarks in…
8 March 2019
These are dark days if you care about justice. New estimates reveal that over 5 billion people live outside the protection of the law. These are people who can be driven from their land, intimidated by violence, and excluded from society.
Against the backdrop of this staggering figure, community…
5 March 2019
If the main purpose of government is to provide for the common security of its citizens, surely ensuring the security of the food system must be among its paramount duties.
The United Nations identifies the food crisis as one of the primary and overarching challenges facing the international…
Afrique du Sud: le gouvernement dédiera 271 millions $ pour l'accès à la terre des fermiers noirs ()
21 February 2019
Date: 21 février 2019
Source: Agence Ecofin
Par: Espoir Olodo
(Agence Ecofin) - Le gouvernement sud-africain a réservé 3,7 milliards de rands (271 millions $), afin d’aider les fermiers noirs désireux d’acheter la terre et d’acquérir des titres de propriété. C’est ce qu’indique Bloomberg qui cite…
14 February 2019
The Constitutional Court’s October 2018 judgment was pivotal in protecting the secure land tenure by persons previously disadvantaged by apartheid laws
The current clamour for redistribution of land in SA has heightened interest in land reform and placed raging sociopolitical discourse at centre…
13 February 2019
Cape Town – A legal battle for ownership of rights to land leased to a major petrol station has ended up in the Constitutional Court.
Shell South Africa had in 1991 built a petrol station in Nelspruit (now Mbombela) in Mpumalanga, on land it leased from HL Hall & Sons and, according to court…