February 27, 2019
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- IOL
In a historic move, 21 years in the making, yesterday marked the first step in restoring the dignity of Khoisan people with Parliament’s approval of the…
February 2, 2019
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- News24
The current, 2019 bill is a slightly modified version of the 2015 bill. The most important addition to the 2019 bill is the insertion of clause…
January 14, 2019
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- The South African
Regardless of the public’s apprehension, it seems likely that land expropriation will, despite a fierce pushback from civil rights groups and opposition parties, be introduced into…
January 2, 2019
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- IOL
The revised bill on expropriation empowers the Minister for Public Works to accept or reject a compensation offer made by an owner of a property set…
October 3, 2018
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- City Press
Former president Kgalema Motlanthe says that the Constitution does make provision for land expropriation without compensation and that its implementation has merely been “slow”….
December 8, 2017
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- African Business
This article makes a case for how stakeholder relationships could be managed in an African manner using practices from the Bafokeng, whose kingdom, the Royal Bafokeng…
December 7, 2017
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- Daily Maverick
We need to turn the national dialogue away from owning “land” to owning “property”. The former is a rural conception: owning soil and the notions attached…
December 7, 2017
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- Business Tech
The Department of Rural development and Land Reform has announced that intends to introduce the Electronic Deeds Registration Systems Bill in the National Assembly during the…
November 29, 2017
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- National News
A new survey shows that racial patterns of land ownership in South Africa are changing, adding to the already fierce debate over whether the country should…
November 1, 2017
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- ENCA
Historically disadvantaged South Africans own more than a quarter of the country’s farmland. In contrast, white farmers own more than 70 percent of agricultural land. That…
November 1, 2017
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- Daily Maverick
AgriSA compiled the land audit with the help of Agri Development Solutions and the publication Landbouweekblad. It looked at the 1994 land ownership figures and then…
September 29, 2017
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- Times Live
Standing on his 849 hectares and looking out into the distance‚ 35-year-old factory worker Zwelihle Dlamini is elated at the prospects his newly acquired land will…
September 29, 2017
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- Bizcommunity
South Africa will need to review its land reform policy, with an eye to boosting productive land use among the rural poor, if it is to…
September 22, 2017
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- The Citizen
A cash injection of R100 million from a Russian investor has helped to rescue a disastrous land restitution venture from collapse, saving hundreds of jobs and…
September 10, 2017
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- The Citizen
According to a report in Afrikaans weekly Rapport, the new approach to the controversial project of land reform in South Africa has been failing, and government…
August 28, 2017
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- Daily Maverick
Whilst rural areas are dynamic and vibrant communities, they are chronically under-invested in. Poverty rates tend to be at least double than that of urban centres….