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By Lucas Ledwaba The impoverished locals – who blame mining for the loss of arable land and destruction of the rural agrarian economy – want the Twickenham mine to open or forfeit mining rights.
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.customcontested.co.za/limpopo-villagers-demand-anglo-reopen-sekhukhune-mine-or-lose-licence/
By Katlego Ramantsima Developing land tenure legislation is a difficult job to get right — especially given the legacy of intractable problems inherited from apartheid. The Gauteng consultation did not seem genuine: it lasted only three hours.
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.customcontested.co.za/governments-consultation-on-communal-land-tenure-just-a-tick-box-exercise/
Press release, Parliament Parliament, Tuesday, 3 May 2022 – The Portfolio Committee on Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development for the second time today heard the Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development, Ms Thoko Didiza, explain that the Ingonyama Trust Board (ITB) had submitted its 2022/23 Annual Performance Plan without a budget allocation plan …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.customcontested.co.za/media-statement-agriculture-committee-concerned-by-ingonyama-trust-boards-lack-of-budget-for-annual-performance-plan/
By Zukiswa Pikoli Government should abandon the policy of land restitution because it is not economically or politically feasible, and rather go back to redistribution.
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.customcontested.co.za/land-reform-can-only-happen-by-targeting-private-property-ownership-says-tembeka-ngcukaitobi/
By Tony Carnie A group of more than 200 people, many carrying pangas and bush-clearing knives, have threatened to occupy and clear new farming land in a globally unique forest in the iSimangaliso Wetland Park in northern KwaZulu-Natal. The park is a World Heritage Site.
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.customcontested.co.za/kzns-isimangaliso-wetland-park-threatened-by-land-invasion/