A new sense of urgency has entered South Africa’s land reform process after the country’s parliament took a resolution to amend the constitution to effect land expropriation without compensation.
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by Mnqobi Ngubane on 12 Apr 2018
by Ben Cousins on 8 Mar 2018
South Africa’s parliament has passed a resolution to amend the constitution and allow expropriation without compensation.
by Nkanyiso Gumede on 2 Mar 2018
On the 19th of February 2018, the Southern Africa node of the Network of Excellence on Land Governance (NELGA) was successfully launched, at an event held at the Namibian University of Science and Technology (NUST) in Namibia.
by Mnqobi Ngubane on 26 Feb 2018
In the shadow of the Vrede dairy farm saga, the struggling farmers on redistributed land in eastern Free State are neglected by the state, and forced to lease out greater proportions of arable land to white commercial farmers due to the lack of grain production machinery.
by PLAAS on 20 Feb 2018
The Constitution mandates a land reform process to provide equitable access to land (S25(5)), security of tenure (S25(6)) and restitution (S25(7)). No provisions of the ‘property clause’ may impede the state from taking measures to achieve these commitments.
