A gorge in the Eastern Cape. Land is much more than a resource for many, it has a strong symbolic value.
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Land is culturally and historically important to people and often this is ignored when addressing land issues.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is walking a tight on land reform.
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Clarifying when and how the South African constitution allows for expropriation of land without compensation will strengthen property rights.
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.
The fires tore through Mati, effectively sweeping it from the map.
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The fires tearing through the Athens region are not an act of God, but a direct result of corruption and systematic disregard for the law.
The latest World Bank report on South Africa identifies land reform as critical factor of addressing the country’s economic challenges.
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The latest World Bank report on South Africa addresses solutions to the country’s economic challenges.
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The whole island has been in common ownership for centuries, but foreign investors want individual property rights.
Small farmers struggle to acquire expensive agricultural equipment.
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South Africa’s land reform debate must not lose sight of the real issue: how to provide enough food to feed its people.
South Africa is the only country in the world that permits its staple food, maize, to be grown from genetically modified seed.
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South Africa urgently needs to rethink its existing agricultural model.
South Africa’s property regime is anchored in registered title and this can be rigid and exclusionary.
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The current debate about land reform in South Africa could open the door to reviewing urban land ownership issues.
South Africa faces many economic challenges.
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South Africa’s President, Cyril Ramaphosa, needs to quickly address key challenges to restart the economy.
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.
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.
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Zimbabwe’s new administration has promised to revive the country’s agricultural sector. Here’s what it needs to do.
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A new land administration system that responds to changed ownership patterns of Zimbabwe’s agricultural land is needed if the country is to harness its farming potential.
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The unresolved compensation of Zimbabwe’s evicted white farmers needs to be settled quickly, as it stands in the way of economic recovery.
A woman pours maize grains into a bucket in Shamva, about 80km out of Harare.
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Maize production in Zimbabwe in 2017 is at its highest for decades.
Farm dwellers like Zabalaza Mshengu live in extremely precarious conditions.
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Farm dwellers’ conclusion is that the politics associated with land is not about an organised emancipatory movement. Farm dwellers are mainly preoccupied with daily survival strategies.
Unemployed South African workers wait for scarce jobs as the economy struggles to create employment.
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South Africa’s recently announced economic recovery plan failed to break away from the cumbersome neo-liberal line.
‘Radical economic transformation’ in South Africa needs to move beyond rhetoric.
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South Africa’s governing ANC has always seen economic growth as the driving force for change. This was wishful thinking as the damage done by apartheid will take far more to undo.