Member of the Land Portal local knowledge engagement team developing country profiles for Southern, Central and Eastern Africa - developing country narratives and historical timelines for Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Eswatini, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Namibia ,Somalia and Zimbabwe.
Profiling land researchers and organisations to strengthen open knowledge exchange.
Senior Research Associate with Phuhlisani NPC.
Curator of specialist land news and analysis website https://knowledgebase.land
Land linked Twitter account @knowledgebasel
A recent publication Urban Planning in the Global South co-authored with Vanessa Watson addresses the on-going crisis of informality in rapidly growing cities of the global South.
On the 11th June the Pietermaritzburg High Court ruled that the Ingonyama Trust (created as the last legislative act of the outgoing apartheid government in 1994) had adopted an illegal policy of forcing people living on land that had occupied for generations to sign leases and pay rent to the Trust.
This detailed timeline has been prepared as a companion to the new Magascar country narrative to be published on the Land Portal. It provides a chronology of key events in Madagascar's history, its political transitions and changing land policy and law.
Writing in the Daily Maverick Citizen Tatenda Mazurura reports on the finding of the Hunger Hotspots report highligh
A chronology of historical and political developments and land related issues
This detailed timeline provides further background information on the history and land governance of Eswatini summarised in the Land Portal country profile
This detailed timeline provides further background information on the history and land governance of Zimbabwe summarised in the Land Portal country profile.
This detailed timeline provides further background information on the history and land governance of Namibia presented in the Land Portal country profile
This detailed timeline provides further background information on the history and land governance of Botswana presented in the Land Portal Botswana country profile
A review of land news and analysis covering a wide range of issues including farms and farm workers, food security, land governance and administration, land policy, threats to and murder of land activists, land rights and mining and much more
News curated via knowledgebase.land
