Technological innovation can indeed be beneficial for the working class.
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The narrative of the Fourth Industrial Revolution is more aspiration than reality.
The distribution of agricultural land in South Africa remains deeply unequal.
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An agency could accelerate land reform by removing the process from political and bureaucratic control.
Young Sandi Sile on an abandoned structure in Makhanda, South Africa, in 2013. Questions remain about how the new law will treat abandoned land.
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The proposed new law has a long history. The country has been trying for almost 12 years now to come up with expropriation legislation that is in line with the constitution.
Villagers till their fields in South Africa’s North West Province. Access to land for small holder farmers remains unresolved.
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Land reform programme has done very little to improve access to land for black South Africans.
A member of South Africa’s Economic Freedom Fighters party with a copy of the Constitution.
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South Africa’s constitution has been amended 17 times already. But, the procedure for doing so is onerous.
Chief Nyalala Pilane of Bakgatla-ba-Kgafela has been accused of corruption regarding mining royalties.
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Some communities on South Africa’s Platinum Belt have received substantial mining revenues, but these are controlled by chiefs.
Limpopo Province, South Africa. Who owned this land?
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In practice, land expropriation in South Africa will be a matter of deciding which descendants of the dispossessed are entitled to it.
South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa, is on a mission to rebuild a battered party and state.
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South Africa’s new president, Cyril Ramaphosa, has done well so far but more challenges relating to reigniting the economy lie ahead.
Angry protests for free higher education by South African students forced the country to search for a solution.
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Land expropriation without compensation in South Africa will be resolved by opening up the economy and addressing inequalities.
Delegates attending the 54th National Conference of the ruling African National Congress in South Africa.
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A closer look at the resolution of South Africa’s ruling party, the ANC, show that it won’t undertake a radical economic transformation agenda as suggested by media reports.
Land reform remains a divisive subject 23 years after democracy in South Africa.
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After South Africa’s first democratic election in 1994, the previously oppressed and dispossessed black majority hoped for constitutional restitution of their land. This has largely failed.