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The High Court Ruling Against Ingonyama Trust: Implications for South Africa’s Land Governance Policy

Journal Articles & Books
October, 2023
South Africa
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
land administration
land governance
land policies
indigenous peoples' lands
land rights
This article discusses the implication of the 2021 CASAC v Ingonyama Trust judgment on South Africa’s land governance policy trajectories. It explores the extent to which there are missing links between policy imperatives, the legal system, court processes and socio-economic emancipation. It argues that the failure of the state in policy design and implementation has turned courts into contradictory sites of struggle for emancipating land rights.
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Just Transition Open Agenda May 2022

Institutional & promotional materials
May, 2022
South Africa
Land & Investments
gender equity
sustainable development
environment
land degradation
mining
advocacy
From 24 to 26 November 2020, the three organisations comprising the Life After Coal campaign, Earthlife Africa (Johannesburg), the Centre for Environmental Rights and ground Work, met virtually to develop a shared Open Agenda on the Just Transition. We used the Open Agenda for a Just Transition - developed at the National Coal Exchange in Middelburg, Mpumalanga, in July 2019 - as a starting point.
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A framework to scale citizen participation in urban development

Learning from experiences of multistakeholder collaboration

Reports & Research
November, 2021
South Africa
Urban Tenure
urban planning
public participation
This working paper summarises our understanding of a framework to support the scaling of participatory development in low-income urban neighbourhoods in the global South. The discussion addresses constraints that have previously been identified both in the academic literature and through social movements and support agencies seeking citizen inclusion. Our study demonstrates the importance of working with all key stakeholders, including organised communities, urban social movements, academics, professionals and City authorities.
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Securing Tenure in African Cities: Learnings from five small-scale incremental innovations led by local NGOs and social entrepreneurs

Reports & Research
January, 2021
Kenya, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Africa, Côte d'Ivoire
Land & Gender
Urban Tenure
gender equity
gender equity in access to land
public participation
urbanization
urban areas
tenure insecurity
Achieving tenure security, land and property rights in informal urban settlements remains one of the most persistent, intractable development challenges today. The Secure Tenure in African Cities: Micro Funds for Community Innovation initiative launched by Cities Alliance aimed to address this challenge.
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Climate Change Adaptation and Conflict Prevention: Innovation and Sustainable Livestock Production in Nigeria and South Africa

Journal Articles & Books
November, 2018
South Africa, Nigeria
Land Conflicts
sustainable development
environment
climate change
resilience
pastoral lands
land conflicts
pastoralists
The interface between environment and conflict has gained traction in policy and security circles in recent times. Growing scholarly interest on the linkage stems from increasing awareness on the role climate change plays in precipitating resource contestations and conflict over depleting natural resources, particularly in poor regions. Such impacts sometimes result from secondary consequences of environmental decline and resources scarcity which give rise to stiff competitions over access to available resources.
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Kingdom of Lesotho: Land reform and rural transformation

Reports & Research
June, 2018
Lesotho
Land & Food Security
Land & Investments
rural development
agricultural and rural legislation
land reform
land tenure
The government of Lesotho’s (GOL) land reform efforts, enacted in the Land Act 2010, principally seek to create an environment that is favourable to agricultural development and economic investment.3 For years, Lesotho has lacked efficient land markets in which foreign investors could participate. The limitations on foreign landholding by the 1979 Land Act have presented impediments to improving the commercial use of land.
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Lesotho housing profile

Reports & Research
March, 2015
Lesotho
Land & Investments
urbanization
periurban areas
housing rights
The formal private sector in Lesotho concentrates on housing at the very top of the market leaving the majority unserved by formal housing supply.
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The state of poverty and food insecurity in Maseru, Lesotho

Urban Food Security Series Number 21

Reports & Research
January, 2015
Lesotho
Land & Food Security
food security
urban planning
urbanization
Lesotho regularly features in the African and international media as a country blighted by drought, hunger and food insecurity. Much of the discussion about the causes and remedies for food insecurity, including within Lesotho itself, focuses on the rural population and the precipitous decline in domestic food production in recent decades. This report argues that the rural bias of both donors and government ignores the fact that poverty and food insecurity are increasingly important urban issues as well.
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From illegality to legality: Illegal urban development and the transformation of urban property rights in Lesotho

Conference Papers & Reports
May, 2001
Lesotho
Land & Corruption
Land & Investments
property law
urban planning
urbanization
informal property
This paper draws on research on the enforcement of the Land Act of 1979 in Lesotho. It seeks to show that illegal settlements occur under the shadow of formal state rules, from which social actors borrow selectively and in opportunistic ways to acquire urban property rights. This is possible because of inconsistencies and contradictions in state rules and enforcement methods.
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Land tenure, housing rights and gender

Lesotho: Law, land tenure and gender review: Southern Africa

Reports & Research
December, 2005
Lesotho
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
gender equity
land law
land policies
community land rights
women
This document is a chapter in a larger report commissioned by UN habitat to review the laws and land tenure of Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia and Zambia. The report provides a brief historical background, snapshots of how the government and legal systems operate, reviews land tenure, the various types of land in the country and the relevant constitutional provisions laws and policies. The chapter also examines housing rights and accessibility of services.