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18 Mayo 2022
The Land Portal advocates for more and better open land data, but more and better have never been our end objectives. Data must be used; it needs a purpose. One of the ways we practice what we preach is through our data stories.
The Land Portal regularly produces data stories on a wide range…
16 Mayo 2022
This article by Wandile Sihlobo was first published in The Conversation
Land ownership in South Africa remains skewed towards white farmers. David Silverman/via Getty Images
Land reform in South Africa is an emotive and politically fraught subject. That’s because land was at the heart of the…
15 Mayo 2022
Ido Lekota is a former Sowetan political editor.
Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development Minister Thoko Didiza tabled a R17, 3 billion budget in the past week to help support food security in the country.
Didiza said the money will be distributed through a range of programmes, including the…
12 Mayo 2022
Nick Vink and Johann Kirsten
Most countries in both the rich and the developing world have some sort of programme to help early career farmers (mostly, but not exclusively young people) to get established in a farming or agribusiness enterprise. South Africa sticks out like a sore thumb, even…
28 Abril 2022
Colonial and apartheid land dispossession in South Africa was the most extensive of any country in sub-saharan Africa. Despite a land reform programme initiated after the transition to democracy in 1994, equitable access to land remains an unresolved question in both urban and rural areas.
Land…
28 Abril 2022
Colonial and apartheid land dispossession in South Africa was the most extensive of any country in sub-saharan Africa. Despite a land reform programme initiated after the transition to democracy in 1994, equitable access to land remains an unresolved question in both urban and rural areas.
Land…
28 Abril 2022
L'Afrique du Sud a connu la dépossession foncière la plus importante de tous les pays d'Afrique subsaharienne sous la colonisation et l'apartheid. Malgré un programme de réforme foncière lancé après la transition vers la démocratie en 1994, l'accès équitable à la terre reste une question non…
28 Abril 2022
L'Afrique du Sud a connu la dépossession foncière la plus importante de tous les pays d'Afrique subsaharienne sous la colonisation et l'apartheid. Malgré un programme de réforme foncière lancé après la transition vers la démocratie en 1994, l'accès équitable à la terre reste une question non…
Mining and land rights in South Africa: how has the Maledu judgement empowered rural communities? ()
29 Marzo 2022
In South Africa, traditional leaders had the unilateral power to enter into mining agreements without consulting or obtaining the consent of affected communities. But in 2018, a landmark judgement ruled that a community’s consent was required after recognising them as the lawful occupiers of their…
29 Marzo 2022
In this new blog series Practitioners’ Perspectives: Responding to the Challenges of Land-Based Investment Governance, we invite rights defenders and practitioners to reflect on their strategies to push for more responsible and sustainable investments, on why and how they have developed them,…
6 Agosto 2021
By Monica de Souza Louw, Land and Accountability Research Centre (LARC), University of Cape Town
* This piece was originally published as part of the online discussion on customary law in Southern Africa
Does the South African Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Act (TKLA) allow traditional leaders…
2 Julio 2021
The session addressed the impacts of land-based investments on poor and vulnerable people in the Global South. It facilitated an exchange of knowledge about the strategies that are employed on the ground to strengthen the position of these groups when it comes to negotiating for their interests…