At a public discussion on the land question in Johannesburg on Friday, February 27, Dikgang Moseneke, the Deputy Chief Judge of the Constitutional Court, began his remarks with a well-known quote from Frantz Fanon: “For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which …
Tag: land reform
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Feb 18 2015
How the land redistribution budget is being diverted to elites*
The government says land redistribution is at the top of its agenda. Its actions say otherwise. The Department of Rural Development and Land Reform’s only funding initiative for land reform beneficiaries, the Recapitalisation and Development Programme (RECAP), is diverting funds away from land reform and towards a small group of commercial farmers and preferred “strategic …
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Feb 12 2015
SONA wish list on land reform
Tonight President Jacob Zuma delivers the State of the Nation address. Here are 5 things that President Zuma could do to turn around failing land reform:
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Nov 18 2014
South Africa’s Mining Boom: Double Dispossession for the Rural Poor
Dispossession is once again sweeping KwaZulu-Natal. As always in South Africa, it is the poorest of the poor who bear the brunt. As always they are black and mainly rural. The dispossessor this time is not the colonial or apartheid government. It is the Ingonyama Trust Board, acting in the name of King Goodwill Zwelithini. …
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Oct 01 2014
Rural land rights in jeopardy*
More than 2 000 people attended a recent government summit on land tenure security. They included large numbers of traditional leaders, but also farmworkers, farm dwellers, land reform beneficiaries and people living in the former homelands whose voices are often most marginalised in the national discourse. While there were some divergent views, one of the clearest messages …
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