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Rick has over 40 years experience working in the land sector in Southern Africa. He is part of the Land Portal knowledge engagement team working to research and develop knowledge resources including data stories, blogs and in-depth country profiles for Southern, Central and Eastern Africa.
Rick is also a Senior Research Associate with Phuhlisani NPC - a South African land sector NGO and the curator of specialist Southern African land news and analysis website https://knowledgebase.land
He tweets on land related issues Twitter account https://twitter.com/KnowledgebaseL
He has a PhD from the University of Cape Town. His research in Langa, Cape Town features as the central case study in a recent book Urban Planning in the Global South (2018), co-authored with the late Vanessa Watson, which examines the on-going contestations over land and housing in the rapidly growing cities of the global South.
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Madagascar
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Landmark court judgment in South Africa protects land rights
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. The court ordered the Trust to pay pay back the money which it had illegally levied from people living on some 2.8 million ha of land in KwaZulu-Natal province.
Madagascar: Detailed timeline
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.
Food insecurity crisis accelerating in Southern Africa
Writing in the Daily Maverick Citizen Tatenda Mazurura reports on the finding of the Hunger Hotspots report highlighting that in parts of Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Madagascar, Mozambique and Zimbabwe, many people are experiencing a
Detailed timeline: Lesotho
A detailed chronology of historical and political developments and land related issues in Lesotho. This detailed timeline accompanies the country profile of Lesotho, also published by Land Portal.
Detailed timeline: Eswatini
This detailed timeline provides further background information on the history and land governance of Eswatini summarised in the Land Portal country profile.
Detailed timeline: Zimbabwe
This detailed timeline provides further background information on the history and land governance of Zimbabwe summarised in the Land Portal country profile.