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

Land reform

Western Cape DA plans to take on land reform minister for District 6 claimants

By Eyewitness News

As part of the latest phase of claimants returning to their homes, 108 people were meant to be given their keys last year.

  • Residents of the Lockdown informal settlement on the railway line. Picture: Kaylynn Palm/Eyewitness News

    YONELA DIKO: Mbeki must let the opinions on land go

    Thabo Mbeki may well belong to a generation that learnt to accept that as long as white people are alright, all is alright with the world, writes Yonela Diko.

    409 days ago
  • African National Congress (ANC) deputy secretary-general Jessie Duarte on 11 May 2021 briefs the media on the outcomes of the party's special NEC meeting. Picture: @MYANC/Twitter

    Duarte: ANC step aside resolution not aimed at Ace Magashule

    African National Congress (ANC) deputy secretary-general Jessie Duarte was on Tuesday delivering the outcomes of the party's three-day national executive committee (NEC) meeting.

    461 days ago
  • FILE: Cyril Ramaphosa at the annual opening of the National House of Traditional Leaders on 4 March 2021, with chairperson Inkosi Mahlangu above him. Picture: GCIS

    Ramaphosa: Traditional leadership must be at forefront of land reform

    President Cyril Ramaphosa again promised a presidential summit on land, which he mentioned in his address to the leaders last year.

    529 days ago
  • Picture: Refilwe Thobega/EWN

    ANC accused of rushing public participation in land reform process

    Parliament’s ad hoc committee to amend the Constitution to explicitly allow for land expropriation without compensation met on Friday for the first time this year.

    549 days ago
  • FILE: Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development Minister Thoko Didiza Thoko Didiza. Picture: GCIS.

    Dept pressing ahead with land reform - Minister Didiza

    Land Reform Minister Thoko Didiza told MPs that the release of apartheid-era farms owned by the South African Development Trust would go a long way in addressing the imbalances of the past and addressing land reform.

    551 days ago
  • FILE: AgriSA officials addressing MPs during public hearings on land reform at Parliament. Picture: @ParliamentofRSA/Twitter.

    Land reform in 2021: It's time for Parliament to say what it wants

    Parliament now has to come up with what it wants in the amendment of land policies.

    588 days ago
  • Rural women from the Western Cape marched to Parliament on 15 October 2020, demanding productive land, land expropriation and a basic income grant. Picture: Kaylynn Palm/Eyewitness News

    2020 ends without formalisation of SA’s land reform plan

    Another year has come to an end without the controversial policy on land expropriation without compensation being completed.

    588 days ago
  • President Cyril Ramaphosa. Picture: GCIS.

    Landowners, businesses must support govt efforts on land reform, says Ramaphosa

    In his virtual Day of Reconciliation message, the president spoke out against corruption and called on businesses to reflect their support for transformation.

    607 days ago
  • Picture: Refilwe Thobega/EWN

    ANALYSIS: SA has another go at an expropriation law. What it’s all about

    The proposed new law has a long history. The country has been trying for almost 12 years now to come up with expropriation legislation that is in line with the Constitution.

    650 days ago
  • Farmer Richard Mashinini shows his farm in the Free State. Picture: Abigail Javier/EWN

    ANALYSIS: Problematic assumptions raise questions about SA’s land reform plan

    The new initiative reproduces the core weaknesses of post-apartheid state land and agricultural policy. These have done little to improve the livelihoods of the poor.

    658 days ago
  • Parliament of South Africa in Cape Town. Picture: EWN

    De Lille offers clarity around new land bill

    The law would allow land to be confiscated without compensation if its unused, abandoned, or poses a safety risk.

    672 days ago
  • Parliament of South Africa in Cape Town. Picture: EWN

    MPs resume public hearings to tackle Constitutional rights relating land reform

    The coronavirus pandemic and lockdown had halted the process. Its term expired in May before it could complete its mandate.

    675 days ago
  • FILE: Members of Parliament’s constitutional review committee pictured during a land debate in Welkom on 3 July 2018. Picture: Kgomotso Modise/EWN.

    Land debate: Ad hoc committee set up to amend Section 25 of Constitution

    The committee met for the first time since its reestablishment to discuss its programme for public hearings which start in October.

    676 days ago
  • FILE: Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development Thoko Didiza. Picture: EWN

    Didiza: State land available for leasing in all provinces, except WC & Gauteng

    In the next two weeks, government will issue notices for the leasing of almost 900 state farms measuring about 700,000 hectares.

    682 days ago
  • FILE: Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development Minister Thoko Didiza Thoko Didiza. Picture: GCIS.

    700,000 hectares of state-owned land now available to the public

    Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development, Thoko Didiza, said in the next two weeks, government would issue advertisement notices of 896 farms totalling 700,000 hectares of under-utilised or vacant state land.

    683 days ago
  • FILE: Ennerdale residents illegally erecting shacks on a piece of land. Picture: Mia Lindeque/EWN

    As occupations gather pace, SA landowners fear for their property

    Twenty-six years into democracy following the end of apartheid, land ownership remains a thorny issue in South Africa, which is one of the world’s most unequal countries, according to the World Bank.

    707 days ago
  • FILE: Agriculture Minister Thoko Didiza at a briefing on 6 April 2020. Picture: @GovernmentZA/Twitter.

    Didiza: Women farmers will be prioritised in govt procurement processes

    The minister held a virtual dialogue on Monday with women in the sector who raised many issues centering around the lack of land.

    713 days ago
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    Draft land tenure amendment bill seen as step in right direction

    Parliament has heard submissions from academics, people living on farms as well as organisations representing landless communities on the Upgrading of Land Tenure Rights Amendment Bill.

    717 days ago
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