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PRESS RELEASE: The Failed Promise of Tenure Security: Customary Land Rights and Dispossession Land Conference 2022

19 August 2022 Citizens of rural communities across the country who are fighting for their land rights are outraged at the government’s treatment of them – likening it to apartheid and colonialism. That was just one of the key points that came out from the land conference titled The Failed Promise of Tenure Security: Customary …

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Media Statement: Agriculture Committee concerned by Ingonyama Trust Board’s lack of budget for annual performance plan

Press release, Parliament Parliament, Tuesday, 3 May 2022 – The Portfolio Committee on Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development for the second time today heard the Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development, Ms Thoko Didiza, explain that the Ingonyama Trust Board (ITB) had submitted its 2022/23 Annual Performance Plan without a budget allocation plan …

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LARC statement on Traditional Council Bill hearings

PUBLIC HEARINGS OVER CONTENTIOUS TRADITIONAL COURTS BILL TO START IN SOME PROVINCES Press Statement issued by Land and Accountability Research Centre, University of Cape Town  The Land and Accountability Research Centre (LARC) is alarmed and concerned that the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) seems to be rushing to complete a public consultation process on the …

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