News

UCT experts’ participation in the HLP now live

19 Nov 2018| by LARC

In 2015, an ambitious albeit very important parliamentary process was initiated by the legislature’s Speakers’ Forum: to assess how effective post-1994 legislation has been in contributing to the transformation agenda of the developmental state, and the possible unintended consequences of these laws. This undertaking was led by a high-level panel (HLP) of eminent South Africans, headed by former President Kgalema Motlanthe. The panel produced a lengthy 601-page report that has been in the headlines sporadically since its release in November 2017.

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The problem with the Traditional and Khoi San Leadership Bill (TKLB) as illustrated by the Maledu Constitutional Court judgment

01 Nov 2018| by LARC

Getting beyond our fascination with corruption to focus on policies and laws that re-entrench structural inequality | November 2018

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Restoring the Dignity of the Landless

29 Oct 2018| by LARC

The debate about Expropriation without Compensation ignores threats to the property rights of the rural poor contained in bills before Parliament.

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Invitation for Written Submissions: Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Bill (B23B-2015)

17 Sep 2018

The NCOP Select Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs has invited stakeholders and interested people to make written submissions on the Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Bill (TKLB). Submissions must be sent to the Committee Secretary, Mr. Thembile Moses Manele, at tmmanele@nullparliament.gov.za. The closing date for submissions is 19 September 2018.

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LARC attended ARD partner workshop on Section 25

12 Sep 2018| by LARC

The Alliance for Rural Democracy (ARD) convened a gathering of activists across the rural and urban sectors in Cape Town on Sunday and Monday, 9 and 10 September 2018. The workshop was followed by a march to the National Assembly.

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Opinion

Rural women fight for the right to own ‘their’ land

19 Nov 2018| by Nokwanda Sihlali

South Africa’s constitutional watchdog, backed by several brave rural women from KwaZulu-Natal, went to court this week in a bid to stop King Goodwill Zwelithini’s Ingonyama Trust turning land owners into tenants.

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Owners made tenants by the Ingonyama Trust

19 Nov 2018| by Zenande Booi

King Goodwill Zwelithini’s Ingonyama Trust returns just 11 to 16 cents of every R100 it collects in rentals to his luckless tenants for the development and administration of the land they once called their own. He keeps the rest for himself.

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Top court’s ruling restores rights of landholders violated by mining giants

19 Nov 2018| by Zenande Booi

The Lesetlheng community’s victory against mining interests signals a start to the recognition of land rights of which SA’s oppressed people had been deprived for generations.

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Maledu judgment victory for the Constitution over mining evictions

05 Nov 2018| by Dr. Aninka Claassens

The Constitutional Court ruled unanimously last week that mining and the Minerals and Petroleum Resources Development Act (MPRDA) cannot trump the constitutional rights of the 17-million South Africans living in former homeland areas.

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‘Motlanthe agents’ protest customary taxes

03 Oct 2018| by Amanda Khoza

A group of community members living in Dlovinga village in Izingolweni on KwaZulu-Natal’s South Coast have been labelled “Kgalema Motlanthe agents” for challenging the levy fees and taxes imposed by their local chief.

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