Managing stakeholders in a traditional African setting
Land is a metaphor for freedom
South African architecture precludes jobs
South Africa to move to electronic title deeds system to deal with massive new land reform
How state ignored research on land reform
The director of the Bureau for Economic Research (BER) at Stellenbosch University, Prof Johann Kirsten, has delivered a damning review
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Some moves to make up for savage South African land grab
Changing face of racial land ownership in South Africa
A story of a land claim benefiting all involved
Be bold. Test compensation provisions’: State told to speed up land reform
Communities must benefit more from mining, says panel
Residents of mining areas testified at the high-level panel on assessment of key legislation and acceleration of fundamental change
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We should avoid radical rhetoric and policies on land – AgriSA
Black people buying land more successful than restitution: AgriSA
Land ownership significantly up for disadvantaged people
Land debate: The facts are now on the table – Agri SA
Who owns SA land? AgriSA tries and fails to provide a clear answer
Farmers’ interest group AgriSA on Wednesday released its own land audit. The figures should be treated with caution, but, unlike
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Who owns SA’s land?
Cas Coovadia: We all want land reform. Let’s make it work
Success as conservation and commerce join hands
Report Calls for Survey of Farms Acquired Through Land Reform Programmes since 1994
Africans still don’t have land, says Dlamini-Zuma
ANC presidential candidate and MP Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has emphasised the importance of land redistribution and land reform in the
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Robust property rights essential for SA’s future prosperity – IRR
District municipality to drive Agri Parks
Land reform, rural development and developmental state policies in South Africa: Betwixt and between integrated development
Operation Phakisa Plan: DRDLR and Commission on Restitution of Land Rights briefing
DRDLR & Commission on Land Restitution 2016/17 Annual Report, with FFC input, and Minister and Deputy present
The Financial and Fiscal Committee (FFC) said the rural economy was no longer just a farm economy, and the role of agriculture as an
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Russian investors inject R100m to save the ‘failed’ Zebediela farm
There’s No RET Without Land, Return Our Lands – Dlamini-Zuma
Lessons on land reform from the East Asian tigers
Eight KZN families delight at R10-million land claim success
A new Lady Selborne is rising from apartheid’s ashes
A suburb that apartheid tried to destroy has come alive again, and in great style. Some of the original inhabitants of Lady Selborne,
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How land reform and rural development can help reduce poverty in South Africa
Land-audit report second phase due for release in October
Little-known sexist apartheid law declared ‘unconstitutional’ by judge
World in Progress: Land reform in South Africa
Plea for land trust beneficiaries to stop fighting
Rural Development and Land Reform Deputy Minister Mcebisi Skwatsha pleaded with beneficiaries of the Ndabeni Communal Property Trust to
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Goodwood land claimants fighting for their land
Some traditional authorities have not been democratised
Title deeds: how do we fix the system?
SA state has been trying to cover up huge land reform failures – report
Land reform mirage: ANC govt fails to take property rights seriously
JOHANNESBURG — Land reform is a hot political tool in Southern Africa and the likes of the ANC and EFF are well aware of this. Promises
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Commission on Restitution of Land Rights & Department of Rural Development & Land Reform on Quarter 1 performance
Rural transformation as a solution to poverty in South Africa
Land redistribution must go beyond populism - Jonas
Vumelana awards communal property institutions for good governance in land reform
How the government is throttling land reform
State neglect and elite capture are the real face of land reform, according to a landmark field study of farms in the Eastern Cape. And
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Macadamia farm celebrates good harvest, launches harvest festival
Poverty: Redistribution of productive assets needed – Oxfam SA
South Africa’s New Land Bill Likely To Displace Over 17 Million People
Control of communal land belongs with the people
Fixing apartheid’s spaces: New Joburg land use guidelines on the cards
New consolidated guidelines set to detail how houses, businesses and spaza shops in the City of Johannesburg should look are on the
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Why title deeds aren't the solution to South Africa's land tenure problem
Land audit still not completed
Agri SA discusses the realities of land reform at Agri EC Congress 2017
ANC KZN Wants Land With No Compensation
Zululand community wants their 'stolen' R2.2 billion land back
A land claims case that aims to resolve a centuries-old dispute in northern KwaZulu-Natal began on Monday.
The right to ownership of
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Court to decide on Melmoth farm claims
Land battle looming
Put land in the hands of women – PAP MPs
KZN ANC accelerates campaign for land grab referendum
KZN ANC accelerates campaign for land grab referendum
Durban – The African National Congress (ANC) in KwaZulu-Natal is accelerating mass mobilisation campaigns to promote calls for a
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Post-settlement support of land reform projects vital
Land reform set to reach 30% black-owned target, study shows
Wallmansthal claimants outraged over donated land
From farm labourers to bosses: SA's land reform scores a rare success
Agri SA economist warns on farm grabs
Expropriation of agricultural land without compensation would likely cause serious damage to the sector and lead to economic collapse,
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What’s mine is mine: Lonmin and the secret claim on Marikana land
Those who till the land will reap benefits for all
Miriam Makeba’s cry for land resounds in citizens’ pleas to panel for change
Hundreds of families benefited from land compensations in Gauteng
Land restitution without compensation would spell disaster for SA
During the State of the Nation Address (SONA), Rural Development and Land Reform Minister Gugile Nkwinti told parliament that a
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Government to Conduct Pre-Colonial Land Audit
Law needed for land restitution without compensation - Gugile Nkwinti
Young change makers using tech to solve land corruption
Future scenarios for land reform in South Africa
Making land reform work for everyone
Brian Whittaker, Director and Strategic Advisor at Vumelana Advisory Fund, discuss how they, along with forty interest groups, are
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Land reform key for SA’s economic transformation – ANC
Making their land work for them
The Land Question Part 2: Why is Malema bent on getting the land back?
No more baas or Klaas
Laws governing land ownership a major concern: Motlanthe
Former President Kgalema Motlanthe says South African laws governing land ownership are a major concern to some South Africans.
He
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The Land Question part 1: What is land reform?
SA Making Progress in Land Redistribution
Summit to place Limpopo land claim communities under spotlight
High-level panel provides public forum for restitution of land
Nationwide Public Hearings Have Assisted Committee to Strengthen Esta
The Portfolio Committee on Rural Development and Land Reform is satisfied with inputs made by farm workers, farm-dwellers and
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Department of Agriculture, Forestry & Fisheries on 2nd quarter 2016/17 performance, in presence of Minister & Deputy Minister
Clan's joy at ruling over land restitution
State pleads ignorance over probe into multimillion-rand land claim ‘scam’
Land worth R318m seized in farm probes: Abrahams
Department of Rural Development and Land Reform on its 2015/16 Annual Report with FFC input
The Fiscal and Financial Commission (FCC) presented a summary of its report that evaluated the financial status of the Department of
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Department of Rural Development and Land Reform, CRLR & Ingonyama Trust Board on their 2014/15 Annual Report
Minister Gugile Nkwinti Hands Over Financial Compensation to Communities in Kruger National Park
Agri SA worried about expropriation bill
Legislation coming on land distribution
Minister Nkwinti accompanied by Minister Molewa to officiate at the financial compensation ceremony for claims on the Kruger National Park
The Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform Mr Gugile Nkwinti will hand over financial compensation to communities in respect of
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Farmers reap success from rural development projects in W Cape
The truth about land and home ownership in South Africa
Crucial Land Records Could Be Lost Forever
Tenants should become neighbours
Traditional leaders unhappy with Land Claims Commission
Traditional leaders have expressed dissatisfaction with the Commission on Restitution of Land Claims. President of the Congress of
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Bill limiting land ownership likely to be published for public comment in May
Department of Rural Development and Land Reform expenditure: HSRC & Treasury inputs
Committee Report on Rural Development and Land Reform Budget
Commission On Restitution of Land Rights On Land Claims Mobile Offices
Land deed dispute headed for court
THE RICHTERSVELD community on the West Coast plans to take state-owned diamond mine Alexkor to the Land Claims Court for its failure to
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An untouchable paradise
Communal Property Associations Amendment Bill: Draft
Commission Checks On Old Land Claimants
Rural South Africa Is On a Precipice
Verulam community gets millions in land reform compensation
South Africa’s Deputy Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform, Mcebisi Skwatsha, together with KwaZulu-Natal MEC for the
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Minister gives priority to mines over communities
SA landowners should prove land belongs to them, meeting hears
Revised 5 year Strategic Plan: Department of Rural Development and Land Reform briefing
Revised 5 year Strategic Plan: Department of Rural Development and Land Reform briefing
Ingonyama Trust Board & CRLR on their 2016 Strategic Plans; Analysis of Department’s performance: briefing by DPME & AGSA, with Deputy Speaker & Deputy Minister
The Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation briefed the Committee on its assessment of the performance of the Department of
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Search for common ground in land-reform debate
Agri Parks status report; RAMA Communal Property Association update; Adoption of Committee report on Department's Strategic Plan 2016, in presence of Deputy Minister
Creeping land nationalisation no poverty solution
The politics - and economics - of patronage
Traditional leaders should not lodge competing land claims, Zuma says
PRESIDENT Jacob Zuma has asked traditional leaders‚ as custodians of tribal land‚ to improve farming of underutilised land to ensure
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Minister Gugile Nkwinti conducts site inspection on “one household, one hectare" in Eastern Cape, 3 Mar
New multi-million land claim for Richards Bay
Zuma moots moving land claim cut-off to 1800s
Expropriation bill no threat to investment: Nxesi
Don't drink the Kool-Aid on the Expropriation Bill
The government wants the power to take your house, business, shares...and a whole lot more.
The IRR disagrees very
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Commission on Restitution of Land Rights 2nd & 3rd Quarter 2015/16 performance, with Deputy Minister
Expropriation Bill key to transformation trajectory - Office of ANC Chief Whip
Expropriation Bill gets green light
MPs pass 'problematic' expropriation bill
South Africa parliament passes land expropriation bill
South Africa's main house of parliament took a first step on Tuesday toward enabling the state to make compulsory purchases of land to
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Mr Malema, you have no authority over land'
Land plan 'recipe for disaster'
Land reform remains important for transformation - Zuma #SONA2016
How land can solve our problems
New land claims process to be challenged in court
On 16 February 2016, civil society organisation will find their way to the Constitutional Court in Braamfontein to challenge the
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Women - A focus on land
It could take 144 years to settle land claims, warns researcher
Effect of laws on citizens will be scrutinised
Put land reform blame where it should be - academic
Panel of experts set up to assess key laws passed since 1994
Parliament has set up a panel of experts to assess key laws passed since 1994 and identify what changes need to be made to speed up
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Labour tenancy claims bring deep history into the present
Khoisan community urged to take action on land claims
Minister told to take back land in claim involving 105 farms
TP Nchocho, CEO, Land and Agricultural Development Bank of South Africa: Interview
ANCYL to visit Zim over land reform research
CAPE TOWN – ANC Youth League President Collen Maine said the youth wing will be visiting Zimbabwe to research that country’s land
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The right to expropriate property
Racism, Rustenburg and the ANC's 2016 challenges
'We drink water with animals', farmworker tells commission of inquiry
Group claims land
Zimbabwe: Malema Describes Mugabe's Violent Landgrab As 'Opportunistic', Says Mandela Betrayed Freedom Charter
Controversial South African politician Julius Malema says President Robert Mugabe is an "opportunist" who waited until he was losing
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Zimbabwe: Tribute to Professor Sam Moyo, a Great Intellectual, and a Man of Integrity
Khoisan: It's our land and we want it back
South Africa: Minister Gugile Nkwinti On National Dialogue On 1913 Natives Land Act Cut-Off Date
Spectrum: Zanu-PF Victory: A Malema called Nel
Trophy hunting in South Africa: Risky business for whom?
Trophy hunting has been presented as part of nature conservation which, itself, has been a tool to justify, and violently impose forced
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This Land Was Your Land
LETTER: ANC fails land reform
KZN pays out R22m in land claims
Sessions for land claims held
Cattle for the poor now belong to Limpopo MEC
A herd of cattle bought with state funds for the benefit of the poor has ended up as the private property of a Limpopo
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Six acres returned
Farm workers given land
D6 claimants demand end to development
GroundUp: No more segregation, say District Six's oldest evictees
MAROBALA-O-ITSOŠE CPA WINS 2ND PRIZE IN VUMELANA GOVERNANCE AWARDS
On Sunday the Vumelana Advisory Fund awarded the Marobala-O-Itsoše Communal Property Association (CPA) of Marobala Farm in Limpopo the
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Our laws let the settler elite off the hook
Zimbabwe's white farmers start anew in Mozambique
PMB community, council lay claim to land
Ladysmith land issue 'delayed'
South Africa: Rural Development and Land Reform On International Day of Rural Women
Rural Development and Land Reform Deputy Minister Candith Mashego-Dlamini has paid tribute to rural women's efforts in increasing food
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Land reform ‘bedevilled’ by unplanned informal settlements
Piketty thinks South Africa needs to redistribute land. Democracies can’t do that. Dictators can.
The Myth of the African Land Grab
Department of Rural Development and Land Reform; Ingonyama Trust; Commission on Restitution of Land Rights on their 2014/15 Annual Reports; Audit outcomes by Auditor-General
South Africa: Willing Buyer, Willing Seller Policy Out – ANC
The ANC has reaffirmed its intention of replacing the "willing buyer, willing seller" land redistribution policy. "There was a very
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50/50 ownership policy won’t end with land – AfriSake
New policies set to rattle S.Africa's agribusiness
Asserting traditional leaders own land opens old wounds
Poor land policy feeds insecurity
Beware ‘thieves’ in nuclear plan, says Mboweni
FORMER Reserve Bank governor Tito Mboweni on Tuesday night took on his colleagues in the African National Congress (ANC) on
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EU, UNDP gives Zimbabwe funds for land administration
Marikana issue linked very strongly to inequality: Mpofu
Few notice the power play in the countryside
State tables amendments to act to provide more security for farm dwellers
Malema, Piketty and the ‘land in black hands’
There is a broad and widely shared narrative that very little of the land settled or conquered and occupied by the ancestors of modern
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ANC accedes land, housing challenges; sets out its action plan
Lack of land reform fuels inequality in SA – Piketty
Ncora Rural Enterprise Development Hub yields
Land reforms arrest rural urban migration: Minister
Malema: Unity is only possible through land ownership
JOHANNESBURG - Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema has told the American Chamber of Commerce that South Africa can
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Families compensated for their land
Scores lodge land claims
Richmont Park to equal Waterfall Estate success
All may not be so well at Ravele CPA
SABC exclusive exposes farming scam in SA
A wealthy fruit exporter and hunter is in the spotlight for allegedly swindling government's land reform beneficiaries out of the
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It will take 1‚000 years to finalise land claims: TAU SA
Land reform department posts ‘dismal’ performance figures, ‘worse’ finances.
South Africa: Minister Gugile Nkwinti On National Dialogue On 1913 Natives Land Act Cut-Off Date
Land reform - the unknown future trend
Why should SA’s rural people have different rights to urbanites?
In pre-colonial times, traditional leaders and traditional authorities were important institutions Iin South Africa, which played
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New Land Grab Law
Second phase of land audit to be completed
Bayede Newspaper, traditional leaders and mining deals in KwaZulu-Natal
Reopening restitution process good idea – ANC
King steps in over KZN mining
King Goodwill Zwelithini has intervened to protect the rights of communities affected by the operations of mining companies in the
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Land claims: Some of the good news and the lay of the land
Painful District Six land claims logjam
Asserting traditional leaders own land opens old wounds
Property association wins battle for platinum-rich land in North West
Follow Rupert's way for successful land reform
In the tumultuous late 1970s, Afrikaner industrialist Anton Rupert built decent homes for his black workers in Cape Town and
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Rural Development and Land Reform Parliamentary Committee Update: Rama and Riemvasmaak challenges, Spatial Planning Land Use Management Act implementation; Committee Oversight Visit Report
Khoisan set up own chamber of commerce
Conflict erupts over Limpopo CPA control
Rushing land reform only slows it down
Parliament in bid to stop cash payouts for land
CASHING in on land claims could be scrapped if MPs have their way.
Parliamentarians are agitating for
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Commission on Restitution of Land Rights on its 2014/15 Annual Report
Land was stolen, says activist
Probe puts politicians in spotlight
Property Valuation Act to be implemented in August
Land claims lodgement bus to visit HCM
The Commission for Land Rights Restitution will be bringing its services closer to the people of Hibiscus Coast from 16 to 18
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SPLUMA discussion on Rights and Recourse (SABC) - You Tube Video
Proposed communal land policy could replay 1913
Traditional leaders use archaic laws to cling to the land
Minister considers amendments to new Land Act
Traditional leaders call for suspension of Land Act
Traditional leaders have called on Rural Development and Land Reform Minister
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Land claim threatens community’s Lonmin deal
SA rights groups criticise land expropriation bill
Nkwinti defends foreign land ownership
Minister firm on farm size limit, despite opposition
Massive North Coast land claim
A community has approached the Land Claims Court to expedite a claim to vast parts of the North Coast, including upmarket Ballito and
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Khoi, San leaders want say in new law
Leaders smoked out in land conflict
Bid to prioritise land claims
Dispossession is not land reform
'We want our land now' - Limpopo land claim beneficiaries
Dozens of land claims beneficiaries and land activist organisations in Limpopo marched on Tuesday to the provincial land claims
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Traditional leaders vow to defy government over new land law
Regulation of Land Holdings bill ‘moving fast’ to become law – Minister
Evaluation report by Department of Performance, Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME), with Minister present
South Africa's instability scares away investors
Minister clarifies ANC land policy
The latest announcements last week by the Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform, mr Gugile Nkwinti, have given more clarity
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Minister pledges Khoisan gains
Zuma addresses land claims issue at Xhosa king's coronation
Communal land: full title clarity needed
Minister Nkwinti to Visit Agri Park Project
Reclaiming the soil of the past
Mobile offices will travel from town to town to help people who missed the chance to lodge land-restitution claims before the
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Who owns the land?
Land reform and black empowerment in South Africa – lessons from Zimbabwe
Commission on Restitution of Land Rights on Strategic & Annual Performance Plan 2015/16
Mobile Offices to Make Land Claims Process Easier
Zimbabwe: Tobacco Farming - Land Reform Success Story
The revolutionary socio-economic transformation that is occurring in tobacco growing communities points to one of the outstanding
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Aninka Claassens on Morning Live’s Discussion on Land – Part 1 to 4
A decade later and no closer to answer
Baphiring clan go home after 40 years
Government concludes land restitution for North West community
Terms of Reference for District Land Committees
The 2012 National Development Plan (NDP) emphasizes the need to reintegrate rural areas into mainstream economic development, which
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More Lip Service On Land Reform
Shifting quicksands of land drama
Tribal Homelands Turned to Profitable Farmlands
KZN community threatens land invasion
Are Reparations Enough? Land Equity Reform In South Africa
Despite the end of colonial rule and apartheid, land in Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe is still not equitably
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Department of Rural Development and Land Reform & Department of Environmental Affairs on their 2013/14 Annual Reports
‘Blacks own less than 1% of Cape farms’
Black consciousness and the land question
Department of Rural Development and Land Reform Strategic Plan 2015 - 2020
Study says willing buyer, willing seller still best for Namibia
The willing buyer, willing seller model was still the best for Namibia’s land reform, despite its shortcomings, according to a
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Ingonyama Trust Board 3rd Quarter 2014/15 Performance Report
Zuma hears Khoi, San demands for land
Analysis: Land politicised, land divided
Cape aims for ‘at least 70% success’ in agricultural land-reform projects
Foreign land Bill a 'setback' for economy
South Africa cannot be compared to other countries that forbid foreign ownership of land, say economists in response to a
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Zuma reveals family to lodge land claims
South African Land Reform Is Negotiable, Minister says
Zuma encourages use of lawyers for land claims
Zuma addresses National House of Traditional Leaders
Has land reform lost its purpose?
FEW ISSUES in contemporary SA arouse as much emotion as "the land question", or reveal as little clarity on purpose. On radio
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Department of Rural Development & Land Reform: 3rd quarter 2014/15 performance & progress report on its DPME MPAT evaluation
Base new land policy on future, not past
Land, Dignity & Democracy: South Africa's Constitution Does Allow for Expropriation
Western Cape sets up land reform advisory desk
Mantashe's populism an attempt to shift the blame - Thomas Walters
Reports this week quote Gwede Mantashe, Secretary General of the ANC, as "warning" farmers in South Africa to work with the ANC on
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Land redistribution: Freedom Front Plus bewildered by R4.7bn allocated to land reform
South Africa: Staking a claim
Task team assembled for massive Pretoria land claim
South Africa struggles with land reform
Committee Wants Answers From Key Stakeholders Regarding Outstanding Land Claims
The Portfolio Committee on Rural Development and Land Reform has demanded answers on the absence of key stakeholders to answer and
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Cape family’s land claim shock
Recapitalisation and Development Programme: briefing by Department of Rural Development and Land Reform
Land Rights Management Facility: briefing by Department of Rural Development & Land Reform
Claimants still waiting for the promised land
Evaluation for the implementation of LRAD and reasons for the collapse of the agency agreement
The paper presents the results of an in-depth study on the factors that hampers progress among transferred farms of the LRAD programme
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Why 1913 should be kept as the cut-off date for land claims
The possible shape of a land transparency initiative
New land claims expected to cost between R129bn and R179bn - Gugile Nkwinti
Department of Rural Development and Land Reform & Ingonyama Trust Board on 4th Quarter 2013 and 1st Quarter 2014 Performances
Opinion: Assessing South Africa's New Land Redistribution Policies
Land reform in post-apartheid South Africa is in trouble. Research reveals that at least half of all projects have seen little or
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National Land Tenure Summit - 2014
Land Tenure Summit – issues and background
Financial value must inform land settlements
Land is country’s national asset, to stay in SA hands
Land Tenure to Take Centre Stage At Summit
Land tenure reform will take centre stage at a three-day National Land Tenure Summit in Johannesburg next week.
The summit, which
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Landesa Center for Women’s Land Rights
South Africa Plans To Restrict Foreigners From Buying Land
SA Property Owners seek deeper Government engagement on land reform
Verwoerd, Zuma and the Chiefs
Foreign land ownership not a major issue
The motives behind Rural Development and Land Reform Minister Gugile Nkwinti's comments regarding foreign land ownership in South
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Land reform: Namibia 27%, South Africa 8%*
Frameworks on land rights need to evolve and be updated
Land bill a danger to SA - DA
State farms to go to community, youths in North West
New land reform Bill - dangerous or not?
While some pundits say that a recently tabled Bill could quietly further land expropriation with no compensation could threaten
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Transfers of land can unlock ‘dead capital’
Land cliches give no firm foundation for reform
Families to share R20m after successful land claim
South Africa Land Reform and Ownership Confusion
SANParks gets acting boss
The SA National Parks (SANParks) board has appointed Abe Sibiya, the managing executive of Kruger National Park (KNP), as its acting
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Empty promises to rural people
Title deed of Vleifontein 310 LS and Slag Farm now with CPA
Unworkable land reform project designs offer inappropriate farming models to rural dwellers
The disjunctures of land and agricultural reform in South Africa
Farming and Food in Africa and the Mounting Battle over Land, Water and Resource Rights | GREAT Insights 3(1)
Africa is being heralded as the new frontier for commercial farming but, as governments and investors sign deals, a counter-movement of
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Outcomes of post-2000 Fast Track Land Reform in Zimbabwe
Land reform will remain a hot topic
Some good news for landowners
Africa: resource rights groups call for doubling of community-controlled land
Cool heads needed in land reform debate
It is time for a clear perspective on the emotive issue of land reform in South Africa. Only if we cut through the disinformation, bad
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No clear owners of huge tracts of SA land
The New Enclosures: Critical Perspectives on Corporate Land Deals
The challenges of community advocacy
Land distribution paradoxes and dilemmas
Women, Donors and Land Administration: The Tanzania Case
Tanzania’s land reform from 1999 has been evaluated as among the most gender-sensitive of its kind in Sub-Saharan Africa. However,
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The African National Congress (ANC) and the Impact of the Land Restoration Process in Democratic South Africa Since 1994: Socio-ecological Challenges to Poverty Alleviation?
