By Paddy Harper Parliament’s land reform portfolio committee wants to meet King MisuZulu ka Zwelithini to resolve the “crisis” caused by the breakdown in relations between him and the Ingonyama Trust Board (ITB).
Category: Opinion
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Dec 02 2024
Southern Palladium bets on platinum’s future: new mine planned despite market pressures
By Ed Stoddard This is a fairly rare project for the Australian-listed company to undertake, but looming supply deficits mean the timing could be perfect.
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Sep 30 2024
Confronting the legacy of deceased miners in unmarked graves
by Ramabina Mahapa During much of the 20th century many SA mineworkers who died on duty were buried informally, often without appropriate ceremony, on the mine’s properties by their colleagues or hired diggers.
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Jul 09 2024
South Africa’s Unanswered Land Question
By Katlego Ramantsima and Refiloe Joala South Africa is one of the most unequal countries in the world. To this day, it has shocking levels of poverty and unemployment. This inequality is starkly apparent in the country’s pervasive Apartheid landscape, where overcrowded informal settlements and townships lie next to leafy suburbs and sprawling, almost exclusively …
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Jul 08 2024
Will the proposed GNU deliver on the land question?
By Sunday World A significant protest by land rights activists went by without much fanfare in Polokwane on the night of June 18. While the eyes, ears and minds of South Africans were focused on the outcomes of the government of national unity talks, a group of activists staged a peaceful night vigil at the …
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