By LARC In June 2021, the Pietermaritzburg High Court found that the Ingonyama Trust had acted unlawfully in issuing leases to rural citizens who are already the ‘true and beneficial owners of the land’ in terms of Zulu customary law and the Ingonyama Trust Act.
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Jun 06 2022
Ingonyama Trust land: Residents ‘must pay for what they use’
By Thami Magubane Durban – eThekwini Municipality is looking to engage with the Ingonyama Trust to get residents living on its land to pay “something” for the services they receive.
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May 09 2022
Media Statement: Agriculture Committee concerned by Ingonyama Trust Board’s lack of budget for annual performance plan
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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Aug 10 2021
The Ingonyama judgment: Why the state must heed court orders to halt dispossession and deliver land rights
By Aninka Claassens Vulnerable rural people in South Africa are being systematically dispossessed of their precariously held property rights. The past decade has seen a colossal battle between the courts and government over land reform and the property rights of the 18 million South Africans living in their former homeland areas.
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Jul 13 2021
2nd Webinar Invitation: Ingonyama Trust Lease Case: What are the judgement’s implications for tenure security of rural South Africans?
By LARC You are invited to attend a two part conversation hosted by the Land and Accountability Research Centre (LARC) on the recent judgment in the matter of CASAC and others v Ingonyama Trust.
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