The connection between 5.2 million South Africans and security of tenure to their lands and homes is the burning issue in a landmark case coming to court.
Tag: land rights
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Nov 11 2019
‘Bantustan Bills’ trample on the rights of rural people
The two bills default to the colonial and apartheid denial of the property rights of people who have inherited their homes and land over generations.
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Nov 08 2019
Traditional leadership bullying needs to stop
Rural communities bear the brunt of the abusive and discriminatory comportment of traditional chiefs who enjoy state support.
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Nov 05 2019
The Ingonyama Trust tramples on the democratic rights of citizens
The law creating the Ingonyama Trust was passed on the very last day of existence of the Bantustan administration and created a pocket of land in democratic South Africa that would be immune to any state land reform programmes: a pocket where residents would be held to different rules and rights than elsewhere in the …
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Nov 01 2019
The chief, the mines and the lost Bakgatla billions
After two years of investigations of the flow of billions of rands into and out of the Bakgatla ba Kgafela community, the work of the Baloyi Commission of Inquiry may come to nothing. Since the report of the Commission was released at the end of August, showing how Chief Nyalala Pilane presided over the mismanagement …
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