90% BLACK FARMS FAILING IN SOUTH AFRICA
Just in case you were wondering how the handing over of South African farms from white farmers to their black “counterparts” was going….it’s not going very well. I know, I know. This is shocking and…
Redistribution of Land
Rural Development and Land Reform Minister Gugile Nkwinti wants white commercial farmers to hand over half their farms to black farmworkers.
Nkwinti said in an interview this week that stakeholders in commercial agriculture, including farmers, trade unions, farmworkers and the agricultural business sector, have until April next year to react to his proposals. The commercial farmers…
RESTITUTION OF LAND RIGHTS ACT 22 OF 1994
RESTITUTION OF LAND RIGHTS ACT 22 OF 1994 (Afrikaans text signed by the President) [Assented To: 17 November 1994] [Commencement Date: 2 December 1994] as amended by: Restitution of Land Rights Amendment Act 84 of…
A property clause was included in the South African Constitution Act 108 of 1996.
A property clause was included in the South African Constitution Act 108 of 1996. However, the provision was formulated to ensure that both the propertied, and the landless and vulnerable and those dispossessed of their property…
1913 land act: A longer history of dispossession
THESE LAWS WERE PASSED BY THE BRITISH AND INHERITED BY THE AFRIKAANERS IN 1948 1913 land act: A longer history of dispossession 14 JUN 2013 WILLIAM BEINART, PETER DELIUS The centenary of the Natives Land…
The Natives Land Act of 1913
REDISTRIBUTION OF LAND The Natives Land Act of 1913 Introduction The history of White colonial land dispossession did not begin with the passing of the Native Land Act in 1913, it spans back to the…
Do Not Forget, Blacks Stole The Land Too
By Maynard Manyowa – November 23, 2015 COLONISATION; Not Just A European ‘MaLady’: EVEN Blacks Stole The Land Too By Maynard Manyowa One of the most hotly contested issues in contemporary South Africa is the…
The Great South African Land Scandal
Sunday, 17 June 2007 Chapter 9: Limpopo THE LIMPOPO PROVINCE “On the road that leaves Pretoria on its way north to Kipling’s ‘great, grey-green, greasy Limpopo River’, to the land of baobab trees, to Zimbabwe…
South Africa: Facts on Native Land Act of 1913
September 18, 2013 Henri Le Riche Areas controlled by European colonial powers on the African continent in 1913, shown along with current national boundaries. Belgian British French German Italian Portuguese Spanish Independent …
Finally, a solution to the land question?
The Ratcatcher on how to operationalise BDay editor-in-chief Peter Bruce’s plan to give every South African the right to half a ha of arable land In his column on 16 October Business Day and Financial…