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FILE: Minister of Agriculture, Rural Development & Land Reform Thoko Didiza. Picture: GCIS.

Ingonyama trust

Didiza 'breached duty to respect, protect, promote Ingonyama landowners' rights'

By Nkosikhona Duma

A full bench declared on Friday that the trust acted unlawfully and contrary to the Constitution, when it stopped the “permission to occupy” policy, which was...

  • FILE: Mangosuthu Buthelezi (R). Picture: GCIS

    Ingonyama Trust to pay back millions to residents as ordered by court

    The court ruled that leases signed by the trust and residents living on the land were unconstitutional.

    349 days ago
  • FILE: A vendor sells Nehawu hats. Picture: Christa Eybers/Eyewitness News.

    Nehawu to picket outside Ingonyama Trust offices over labour issues

    Nehawu KwaZulu-Natal secretary Ayanda Zulu said that this action was the culmination of a long process with workers, raising concerns and demands as far back as 2018 with no results.

    352 days ago
  • Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini opens the KwaZulu-Natal Legislature in Pietermaritzburg on 3 March 2020. Picture: @kzngov/Twitter

    IFP: Govt, ANC should honour King Zwelithini by resolving Ingoyama Trust debate

    The Ingonyama Trust controls about 3 million hectares of land in KwaZulu-Natal and the late monarch was its sole trustee.

    438 days ago
  • FILE: Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini on 27 July 2020. Picture: @kzngov/Twitter.

    Ingonyama Trust under spotlight in Parly over poor audit outcomes

    The Office of the Auditor-General of South Africa briefed Parliament’s portfolio committee on agriculture, land reform and rural development on Tuesday.

    485 days ago
  • FILE: The Ingonyama Trust controls close to three million hectares of land in the province and collects over R100 million annually from those occupying the land. Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini is the sole trustee. Picture: @kzngov/Twitter

    23 KZN municipalities say Ingonyama Trust owes over R300m in outstanding rates

    That was revealed by the trust’s chairperson Judge Jerome Ngwenya during a virtual meeting facilitated by the DA in KZN.

    675 days ago
  • The IFP elected its new leadership at its conference which was held from 23 to 25 August in Ulundi, KwaZulu-Natal. Velenkosini Hlabisa was elected to take over from long-serving leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi.  Picture: Xanderliegh Dookey/EWN

    IFP calls for unused state land to be redistributed to public

    Newly-elected party secretary-general Siphosethu Ngcobo said that the resolution of the land issue carried with it the potential to heal the wounds of the past.

    1005 days ago
  • FILE: Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini greets his supporters at The Moses Mabhida Football Stadium in Durban on 7 October 2018. Picture: AFP

    IFP: We will fight for Ingonyama Trust to be maintained

    The IFP said the trust was functional and beneficial to residents.

    1007 days ago
  • FILE: Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini (foreground). Picture: AFP

    Contralesa: Ingonyama Trust cannot be repealed without Zulu king’s consent

    Contralesa president Kgosi Mathupa Mokoena said the trust’s amendment would insinuate that the king was abusing his powers, saying this was not warranted.

    1032 days ago
  • FILE: KwaZulu-Natal Premier Sihle Zikalala in the provincial legislature on 22 May 2019. Picture: Sethembiso Zulu/EWN

    Zikalala wants Ingonyama Trust land residents to have greater economic benefits

    The Ingonyama Trust is a burning issue in the KZN political landscape, with the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) in the province challenging Zikalala on Tuesday during a debate on his State of the Province Address.

    1058 days ago
  • Cooperative Governance Minister  Zweli Mkhize. Picture: @NationalCoGTA/Twitter.

    Mkhize reiterates Ramaphosa’s assurances on Ingonyama Trust land

    Zweli Mkhize met with Amakhosi from the eThekwini region as a part of the ANC’s Thuma Mina campaign ahead of the 2019 elections.

    1286 days ago
  • FILE: Former ANC Youth League leader Ronald Lamola speaks to Radio 702 at the ANC national conference in Nasrec on 17 December 2017. Picture: Radio 702

    SA's land reforms to include tribal territories - Ronald Lamola

    The remarks by Lamola contrast with previous statements by President Cyril Ramaphosa.

    1337 days ago
  • FILE: President Cyril Ramaphosa. Picture: GCIS

    Govt to continue land reform talks with traditional leaders

    Earlier in June, Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini warned of possible violence if the state tried to expropriate communal lands.

    1410 days ago
  • FILE: Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini. Picture: AFP.

    Ramaphosa denies kneeling before King Zwelithini

    President Cyril Ramaphosa visited King Goodwill Zwelithini to reassure him that the ANC was not attacking Zulu people and the Ingonyama Trust.

    1412 days ago
  • FILE: Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini. Picture: GCIS

    Sixth Parliament to deal with report on dissolution of Ingonyama Trust

    The report is at the centre of the fallout between the Ingonyama Trust under Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini, who is a trustee, and government.

    1417 days ago
  • FILE: A screengrab picture of Zulu King, Goodwill Zwelithini.

    [LISTEN] Govt has no intention to touch land under Ingonyama Trust

    President Cyril Ramaphosa's office says he has assured Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini that the government will not expropriate land under the controversial Ingonyama Trust.

    1417 days ago
  • FILE: Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini looks on prior to delivering a speech during a traditional gathering called Imbizo at the Moses Mabhida Football Stadium in Durban on 20 April 2015. Picture: AFP.

    Outcome of Parly review on Ingonyama Trust yet to be determined

    Key among the issues to be decided is the recommendation that the act be repealed because it was inconsistent with the Constitution.

    1418 days ago
  • FILE: South Africa's president Cyril Ramaphosa gestures as he delivers a speech after being elected by the Members of Parliament, during his swearing-in ceremony at the Parliament in Cape Town on 15 February 2018. Picture: AFP

    Ramaphosa walks a tight rope on land expropriation in KZN

    President Ramaphosa urgently visited Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini on Friday night, promising him that the government has zero plans to touch three million hectares of land under the Ingonyama Trust.

    1419 days ago
  • President Cyril Ramaphosa addresses ANC delegates at the party's manifesto consultative workshop on 25 June 2018. Picture: @MYANC/Twitter

    'Government has no intention to touch land under Ingonyama Trust'

    President Cyril Ramaphosa has paid an urgent visit to Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini to assure him that the ANC-led government has no intention of claiming land under the Ingonyama Trust.

    1420 days ago
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