The two bills default to the colonial and apartheid denial of the property rights of people who have inherited their homes and land over generations.
11 Nov 2019
by Aninka Claassens
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Archive: Opinion
08 Nov 2019
by Molatelo Mohale
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Traditional leadership bullying needs to stop
Rural communities bear the brunt of the abusive and discriminatory comportment of traditional chiefs who enjoy state support.
05 Nov 2019
by Mary de Haas
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The Ingonyama Trust tramples on the democratic rights of citizens
The law creating the Ingonyama Trust was passed on the very last day of existence of the Bantustan administration and created a pocket of land in democratic South Africa that would be immune to any state land reform programmes: a […]
01 Nov 2019
by Wilmien Wicomb
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The chief, the mines and the lost Bakgatla billions
After two years of investigations of the flow of billions of rands into and out of the Bakgatla ba Kgafela community, the work of the Baloyi Commission of Inquiry may come to nothing. Since the report of the Commission was […]
15 Oct 2019
by Gabriele Steinhauser and Aaisha Dadi Patel
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South Africa Wrestles Over Zulu King’s Vast Landholdings
JOZINI, South Africa—In her battle to secure the rights to her dusty homestead, Hluphekile Mabuyakhulu has joined a small group of South Africans squaring off with a powerful landlord: the king of the Zulu nation.
15 Oct 2019
by Sasha Wales-Smith
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Kgosi’s role in vanishing billions
The findings of the Baloyi commission of inquiry into the affairs of the platinum-rich but impoverished Bakgatla Ba-Kgafela community in North West are being challenged even as the premier of the North West is reported to be appointing an administrator […]
03 Oct 2019
by Aninka Claassens
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State’s mining bias is making the poor poorer
There has been a series of damning court judgments in the past 12 months exposing the government’s systematic failure to uphold the constitutionally protected land rights of the poor and vulnerable.
01 Oct 2019
by Cédric Gouverneur
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South Africa’s lands must be shared
The return of land to black South Africans, ‘expropriation without compensation’, is once again a crucial issue for the government. There have been proposals for transfers, and a few actual transfers, for 25 years, but now there is strong pressure, […]
10 Sep 2019
by Kevin Bloom
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Stealing the Crust III: Universal lessons from a local mining fraud
In late August 2019, mere days before mass violence erupted in central Johannesburg, the Baloyi Commission released its report into the corruption that had been plaguing the Bakgatla Ba Kgafela, an indigenous community of 350,000, since at least 1998.
09 Sep 2019
by Zenande Booi and Nokwanda Sihlali
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King Zwelithini’s trust keeps people poor
There was a backlash against the Ingonyama Trust Board even before the release of the Presidential Expert Advisory Panel Report on Land Reform and Agriculture last month and the subsequent media coverage.