Tag: KwaZulu-Natal

Inkosi Mzimela is still the Ingonyama Trust chair despite Buthelezi’s announcement of his withdrawal

By Willem Phungula Despite Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi’s announcement of Inkosi Thanduyise Mzimela’s withdrawal as the new chairperson of the Ingonyama Trust Board on Friday, Mzimela is still in charge.

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Zulu King Misuzulu kaZwelithini vows to tackle KZN assassination scourge

By Chris Makhaye Induna Meshack Mbuyazi was gunned down in December 2019 in the Richards Bay area. Inkosi Zibuse Mlaba, who was Cato Ridge’s interim chief and a founding member of Contralesa, was shot several times while opening his shop in October 2021. These are just two of a number of cases of amakhosi and izindunas …

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KZN’s iSimangaliso Wetland Park threatened by ‘land invasion’

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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The value of land for people displaced by mining cannot be measured in monetary terms alone

By Shannon Herd-Hoare and Ramabina Mahapa If mining comes to Makhasaneni in rural KwaZulu-Natal, will the community be compensated fairly — and how? The market value of land or immovables such as homesteads is the usual determinant. But excluding the cultural aspects of dependence on land helps explain why so few communities have been left …

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Rural women fight for the right to own ‘their’ land

South Africa’s constitutional watchdog, backed by several brave rural women from KwaZulu-Natal, went to court this week in a bid to stop King Goodwill Zwelithini’s Ingonyama Trust turning land owners into tenants.

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