Zukiswa Pikoli ‘As a black child, you cannot say you’re not an activist unless you are not conscious of your environment!’
Tag: land rights
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Jul 20 2020
Courts thwart king’s attempt to control land
Tania Broughton Instead R1 billion worth of restituted land will be held by community property associations, which is what its claimants want.
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Jul 06 2020
Gunmen terrorise villagers opposed to mining expansion
Sandile Motha for Mukurukuru Media This week saw a temporary victory for a KwaZulu-Natal community after Tendele Coal Mining withdrew its urgent court action to remove villagers from land from which it wants to extract coal.
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Jun 19 2020
Why the TKLA remains a fundamental threat to land rights
LARC On 9 November 2018, LARC’s former Director, Aninka Claassens, wrote a letter to Parliament’s Select Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs to explain why the Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Bill undermined land rights even after last minute amendments made during the parliamentary process.
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Jun 09 2020
‘We are no renegades’: Ingonyama Trust fights back in parliament
Andisiwe Makinana The Ingonyama Trust Board has challenged parliament to produce evidence of its alleged incompetence, accusing the legislature of treating the trust as renegades. This comes a week after the National Assembly’s portfolio committee on agriculture, rural development and land reform recommended that the board be placed under administration. “The issue of us not …
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