September 22, 2015
/
- Bizcommunity
The Department of Rural Development and Land Reform approved R235-million for emerging farmers to acquire land to ease congestion in communal and state land across five…
September 11, 2015
/
- Zoutnet
A communal farming project in the heart of Levubu, hailed by the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform (DRDLR) as a success story, may not…
August 26, 2015
/
- Daily Maverick
What kind of rural governance is needed in rural areas? What roles should the chiefs play? What measures of accountability should the institution of traditional leadership…
August 26, 2015
/
- News24
The second phase of an audit into state-owned land is expected to be completed by September 2015. A section on rural development and land reform states…
August 24, 2015
/
- Daily Maverick
There are three components to land reform, a key political issue in South Africa: redistribution, tenure reform and restitution. While redistribution and tenure reform remain sluggish…
August 10, 2015
/
- Mail & Guardian
Bitter conflict has erupted over the control of a communal property association (CPA) that runs five lucrative farms in Limpopo, with community members complaining that the…
August 6, 2015
/
- Mail & Guardian
Poor performances in the land reform process in South Africa are caused primarily by the fluctuating and sometimes conflicting policy messages from government since 1994….
July 30, 2015
/
- News24
The presidency said in a statement on Wednesday the Property Valuation Act of 2014 would, among other things, provide regulation of the valuation of property that…
July 13, 2015
/
- IOL
Land claimants from Roosboom, near Ladysmith, received about R56 million in compensation at the weekend. This was one of the largest payouts made by the provincial…
July 4, 2015
/
- Sowetan Live
Angry traditional leaders have dared the government to arrest them and have vowed to defy the newly enacted Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act (Spluma),…
June 24, 2015
/
- Bizcommunity
A total of 55,973 land claims have been lodged to the Land Claims Commission, since government re-opened the restitution claims process last year, Rural Development and…
June 23, 2015
/
- IOL
Government on Tuesday tried to alleviate jitters that the prohibition of land ownership by foreign nationals would drive away investors….
June 22, 2015
/
- IOL
A community has approached the Land Claims Court to expedite a claim to vast parts of the North Coast, including upmarket Ballito and the Zimbali resort,…
June 14, 2015
/
- IOL
Restitution for Khoi and San descendants should speak to how they were disowned and the government must take the views of Khoi and San communities and…
June 11, 2015
/
- Mail & Guardian
Such conflicts, between traditional authorities and a postapartheid structures legislated to promote democratic rural land ownership, will be brought into sharp focus when the Constitutional Court…
June 9, 2015
/
- News24
The answer seems to be by trumping the outstanding claims by land-owning associations and trusts with counterclaims by chiefs, and by flooding the struggling restitution process…