Mineral resources minister Gwede Mantashe wants to ask unemployed people from surrounding villages whether mining should go ahead.
Tag: land rights
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Feb 21 2019
Mining rights ride roughshod over property rights
It is not just the government that has failed. Mining companies have usurped land belonging to rural communities without due regard for their property rights.
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Jan 29 2019
The Restitution of Land Rights Amendment Act has lapsed in Parliament – what this means for Makhasaneni and other communities
Late last year the Ingonyama Trust intervened in a land restitution claim in Melmoth KwaZulu-Natal. It argued that the land about to be restored to various community groups who had waited over 20 years, should not belong to them. It should instead be transferred to the Ingonyama Trust, because the communities are subjects of King …
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Dec 12 2018
Parliament’s final push on dangerous traditional leadership bills
The recognition of traditional communities in the Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Bill comes with baggage. The “traditional communities” recognised in the TKLB are those previously called “tribes” under colonialism and apartheid. Tribal authorities were established for them in terms of the 1951 Black Authorities Act, and their territories eventually became the Bantustans. Given this context, …
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Nov 19 2018
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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