Ahead of SA’s watershed 1994 election, 3-million hectares of KwaZulu land were transferred into the Ingonyama Trust, under the Zulu king. On November 22, the high court in Pietermaritzburg will hear residents who claim they have been unlawfully forced to pay rent to the trust, which, aside from having never received a clean audit, appears …
Tag: rural citizens
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Nov 15 2019
Land rights holders square up to Ingonyama Trust
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.
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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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