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By: Luyolo Mkentane
Date: March 24th 2016
Source: IOL.co.za
Johannesburg - Mining conglomerates have been criticised as being among issues threatening South Africa’s food security as prime agricultural land was being taken over for the sole preserve of coal mining.
Agriculture industry role-…
By: Neil Gopal
Date: April 1st 2016
Source: Business Day Live
OPINION & ANALYSIS
THE controversial Regulation of Land Holdings Bill, which limits land ownership by foreigners and locals, was again referred to by President Jacob Zuma during his state of the nation address as the way forward for…
By: South African government (press release)
Date: April 25th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / South African Government
PRESS RELEASE
Thousands of rural communities reached through restitution mobile offices
Since the reopening of lodgement of land claims, more than 100 000 households from remote…
Date: 18 mai 2016
Source: Agence ecofin
Par Aaron Akinocho
En Afrique du sud, le projet de réforme foncière porté par l’exécutif pourrait rencontrer une vive opposition de la part des producteurs de céréales. En effet, Jannie de Villiers qui dirige Grain SA, la plus grande association…
What can be done to secure poor rural people’s rights to land and water they depend on for their livelihoods, and what must be done to ensure that women’s access and tenure is secured?
These questions are at the centre of a new multi-country action research project on Land and Water Rights in…
By: Joe Brock
Date: May 26th 2016
Source: Reuters Africa
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's parliament on Thursday approved a bill allowing state expropriations of land to redress racial disparities in land ownership, an emotive issue two decades after the end of apartheid.
Most of…
Date: 28 mai 2016
Source: RFI
Le Parlement sud-africain a voté jeudi 26 mai une loi permettant une accélération de la réforme agraire. Ce nouveau texte va autoriser l'expropriation de la terre, contre compensation, si c'est dans le cadre de l'intérêt public. Une mesure qui concerne des dizaines…
By: John Campbell
Date: June 8th 2016
Source: Council on Foreign Relations
OPINION
There is less than meets the eye to the South African parliament’s passage at the end of May of a land reform bill, called the “Expropriation Bill.” Ostensibly, the new legislation has some similarity to law of…
Source: BDLive
Author: Franny Rabkin
ALL land restitution claims made after December 1998 have been put on hold by the Constitutional Court, after the court found that Parliament did not properly consult the public before deciding to reopen the window for claims.
The Restitution of Land Rights…
By: Teboho.Setena
Date: August 10th 2016
Source: News24
THE African Farmers Association of South Africa (Afasa) in the Free State has called for a second model to the land reform programme to complement the existing Proactive Land Acquisition Strategy (Plas) programme.
The body strongly…
By: Bongani Mthethwa
Date: August 21st 2016
Source: Sowetan Live
One of the first pilot projects that will see workers and farm owners become co-owners of a farming enterprise as part of government’s 50/50 land policy was officially launched in KwaZulu-Natal on Saturday.
The pilot project‚ which…
By: Bekezela Phakathi
Date: September 8th 2016
Source: BD Live
GOVERNMENT is intensifying its drought relief efforts amid fears that hundreds of commercial farmers will be forced to shut up shop as their rising debt reach crisis levels.
South Africa is suffering its worst drought in decades.…