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  • FILE. Picture: Sethembiso Zulu/EWN

    Land reform advisory panel: SA requires clarity on implications of policy change

    It said people were more worried about land grabs becoming the order of the day in the absence of a clear policy.

    1024 days ago
  • Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation Minister Lindiwe Sisulu during her department's budget vote held in Parliament on 10 July 2019. Picture: @The_DHS/Twitter

    Sisulu wants her dept to be first to benefit from land expropriation law

    Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation Minister Lindiwe Sisulu said that her department would want first dibs on expropriated land once the legislation comes into effect.

    1042 days ago
  • Johannesburg Mayor Herman Mashaba briefs the media on 24 April at the council chambers. Picture: Kayleen Morgan/EWN

    Sanco to lay criminal complaint against Mashaba

    Sanco has accused Johannesburg Mayor Herman Mashaba of being involved in orchestrating land expropriation and invasion across the city.

    1043 days ago
  • FILE: President Cyril Ramaphosa. Picture: Abigail Javier/EWN.

    Ramaphosa's ambitious 7-pronged plan for SA

    What exactly does the president have in store for South Africans? EWN summarises the president’s 7 big promises from his State of the Nation Address.

    1062 days ago
  • FILE: Zindzi Mandela at the premiere of 'Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom' in Hollywood in 2013. Picture: AFP

    DA backs calls for Zindzi Mandela to be recalled as ambassador to Denmark

    Mandela’s comments, which were posted on Twitter last Friday, sparked widespread outrage when she said apartheid apologists’ time was over and that they would not rule again.

    1064 days ago
  • FILE: Peter Marais (c) will run as the Freedom Front Plus premier candidate for the 2019 general elections. Picture:Lindsay Dentlinger/EWN

    FFP's Marais: Is Orania really any different to Ulundi?

    Freedom Front Plus Western Cape Premier candidate Peter Marais believes that while Zulu people control most of their own land, there should be no problem if Afrikaans-speaking people want to do the same.

    1129 days ago
  • Picture: EWN.

    Agriculture Dept reiterates productive farms won’t be expropriated

    This comes in response to the Northern Cape ANC compiling a list of farms to be targeted for land expropriation without compensation.

    1158 days ago
  • FILE: Advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi at the North Gauteng High Court on 12 December 2018. Picture: Abigail Javier/Eyewitness News.

    Advocate Ngcukaitobi: Govt has wasted billions on unhelpful land reform

    Advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi has told Parliament that land restitution has not been very helpful over the last 25 years

    1166 days ago
  • DA leader Mmusi Maimane. Picture: 702

    Maimane: Land must be given back, but with compensation

    'I am arguing that where there is a debate around compensation, we can then deal with what the judicial system can do,' said DA leader Mmusi Maimane.

    1176 days ago
  • President Cyril Ramaphosa. Picture: GCIS

    Ramaphosa: Accelerated land reform has potential to improve goodwill

    The president says for South Africa to strive for equality there needs to be expropriation of land without compensation.

    1248 days ago
  • EFF spokesperson Mbuyiseni Ndlozi. Picture: Clement Manyathela/EWN

    EFF: Efforts to reconcile SA futile if black people are without land

    The EFF says it's taking this day to celebrate the parliamentary process towards the restoration of land to indigenous people.

    1248 days ago
  • FILE: AfriForum’s Ernst Roets and Monique Taute make oral submission before Parliament’s constitutional review committee on 6 September 2018. Picture: @afriforum/Twitter

    Court ruling expected on AfriForum land expropriation matter

    Lobby group AfriForum had applied to the High Court to halt Parliament’s constitutional review committee’s report from being passed onto the National Assembly for debate and adoption.

    1265 days ago
  • A view of a farm. Picture: EWN

    Parliament files answering affidavit to AfriForum’s land application

    AfriForum approached the high court last week with an urgent application to stop the report being tabled next week.

    1269 days ago
  • FILE: The constitutional review committee on 15 November 2018 adopted its final report that recommends the amendment of Section 25 of the Constitution to allow for expropriation of land without compensation. Picture: @ParliamentofRSA/Twitter

    FW de Klerk Foundation warns of 'inevitable danger' after land report adopted

    On Thursday, the constitutional review committee adopted the resolution that Section 25 of the Constitution be amended to allow for expropriation without compensation.

    1278 days ago
  • Picture: Refilwe Thobega/EWN

    Land expropriation: Draft report on review on Constitution tabled

    The Parliament’s constitutional review committee was asked in March to consult the public on the possible amendment to allow for land expropriation without compensation.

    1293 days ago
  • Statistician-General Risenga Maluleke. Picture: @SAgovnews/Twitter

    Commercial farmland census kicks off today

    At least 600 field staff will visit commercial farms across the country to establish, the number of commercial farmers, among other things.

    1311 days ago
  • Picture: Refilwe Thobega/EWN

    Stats SA to help with land reform process

    From next Monday, officials are to visit farmsteads countrywide embarking on a census of commercial farms.

    1317 days ago
  • FILE: Namibian president Hage Geingob addresses the general debate of the UN General Assembly’s seventy-first session on 21 September 2016. Picture: UN Photo

    Namibian to sharpen land expropriation rules

    President Hage Geingob made the promise at the conclusion of the south African nation's national conference.

    1320 days ago
  • The Namibian flag. Picture: Supplied.

    Namibia follows SA with land reform pledge

    Traditional leaders have called on the government to resettle people on land that belonged to their ancestors.

    1324 days ago
  • FILE: Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Lindiwe Sisulu attends meeting of the 18th Extraordinary Session of the Executive Council in Kigali, Rwanda, on 18 March 2018. Picture: GCIS

    US companies in SA will be briefed on land reform – Sisulu

    This was one of the outcomes of a meeting Minister of International Relations Lindiwe Sisulu had with her US counterpart secretary of state Mike Pompeo in New York on Friday.

    1327 days ago
  • FILE: Former President Thabo Mbeki. Picture: Reinart Toerien/EWN.

    [LISTEN] ANC veteran Pallo Jordan: Mbeki's land document unfortunate

    Former President Thabo Mbeki has questioned the ANC's stance on land expropriation without compensation.

    1329 days ago
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