By Sienne Molepo All over southern Africa, new urban-to-rural migration and settlement trends are emerging. Far from being abandoned, rural areas are in high demand. This exacerbates the precarity of home and life for those who still live in rural areas, especially on customary land.
Tag: Limpopo
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Jul 05 2022
Fear, loathing and extortion on the eastern limb of South Africa’s platinum belt
By Ed Stoddard A withering state, monstrous potholes, audacious gangsters, hijacked dump trucks, proliferating “business forums” and traditional councils reduced to unseemly beggar status – these are among the elements mining companies have to contend with on the eastern limb of South Africa’s platinum belt, straddling Limpopo and Mpumalanga. Labour tensions have cooled in the decade …
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Nov 19 2019
Public Hearing on the Traditional Courts Bill to take place in Limpopo
One public hearing on the Traditional Courts Bill will be taking place this Friday, 22 November 2019, at the Ranch Hotel in Polokwane.
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Jan 12 2015
Newspaper accuses Ivanhoe of dirty tricks in Limpopo
A Canadian newspaper has accused that country’s Ivanhoe mining company of buying off traditional leaders and of cheating villagers to get its massive Platreef Project underway in South Africa’s Limpopo province. The report in the Toronto-based Globe and Mail says officials including one from Ivanhoe Mines Ltd paid 82-year-old Raesetsa Makgabo R5 250 in compensation for …
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