By Nomonde Phindani 2020 has been a very challenging year and has had a particularly negative impact on rural women. The following piece highlights some of the social, political and economic challenges rural women have encountered.
Category: Opinion
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Nov 04 2020
The politic of blood
By: New Frame The repression and abandonment of impoverished people continues unabated in South Africa, consigning them to lives that cannot flourish and deaths that pass unnoticed among the elite.
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Oct 26 2020
Government promise that ‘700,000ha of state land will be redistributed’ raises more questions than answers
By Katlego Ramantsima Could this announcement be just another political strategy to win the people’s favour for the next elections?
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Oct 01 2020
The succession of chiefs in a constitutional democracy is a complex matter with equal rights at its heart
By Peter Delius The undemocratic and ahistorical approach to settling succession disputes has allowed richly resourced mining interests to enter into alliances with contenders for high office to secure access to mineral-rich land without consulting the people living on the land.
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Sep 23 2020
Illegal land sales head to court
By Paddy Harper Five years after an investigation found that a chief in KwaZulu-Natal illegally sold people’s land to outsiders to build holiday homes, no action has been taken against him or his subordinates.
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