Most people who have their land returned to them don’t have the technical know-how or access to markets – this is where partnerships become crucial.
The conference resolved to mobilise lawyers who understand land and customs, civil society, labour movement allies, academics and other researchers to support the land struggles.
Efforts to redress black people’s dispossession of their land have yielded limited progress 28 years into democracy, despite policy changes, Wandile Sihlobo, Peter Setou, and Prof Johann Kirsten unpack more on this.
“It is encouraging to also see that the department of agriculture, land reform and rural development has been allocated R896.7m for post-settlement support, an area that has always contributed to the high failure…
The government has resolved to establish a land and agrarian reform agency to fast-track land reform, an issue which has been the subject of intense public discourse.
South Africa’s slow land claims process is set to face even more delays – this time due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Mabuza said prioritising the release of state-owned land would meet the objectives of accelerated land reform.
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 bring.
It has been 14 years since about 19 000 labour tenants applied for rights to the land they live on and now, government has failed to comply with a court order to explain…
A R500-million project intended to help emerging black farmers is on the brink of collapse.