Raymond Suttner interview with Polity on loss of trust and legitimacy and ways of remedying and recovering our

Amabhungane reporters, Gupta linked dairy project milks Free State coffers

Gupta-linked farm milks Free State coffers

Aninka Claassens, Reviled Land act is being re-enacted

http://mg.co.za/article/2014-02-06-reviled-land-act-is-being-re-enacted

Nolundi Luwaya, TCB contradicts democracy for which rural people fought

TCB contradicts the democracy that rural people fought for

Tara Weinberg, Re-opening restitution, election promises doomed to backfire

Re-opening restitution: Election promises doomed to backfire

Johannesburg seeks to expand its cleansing with preparation of apparently unconstitutional law

http://www.citypress.co.za/business/brave-new-joburg-operation-clean-sweep-ii/?utm_source=cheapsms247.com&utm_medium=cheapsms247.com&utm_campaign=brave-new-joburg-operation-clean-sweep-ii

Bill evokes ‘stooges of apartheid’ by Niren Tolsi

Unprecedented third round of hearings in North-West reject TCB.  People ask whether they are being pummelled with consultations till they agree.

http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/2013/11/22/bill-evokes-stooges-of-apartheid

State does not consult rural people about laws that affect them. By Mbongiseni Buthelezi

“The state does not consult rural people about laws that affect them”

Advocacy for women’s land rights-plotting way forward by Frances Ann Eberhard and Tara Weinberg,

Advocacy for women’s land rights: Plotting the way forward

Land question in South Africa with Nomboniso Gasa, Leon Louw, Songezo Zibi and Monty Narsoo (Helen Suzman Foundation panel)

http://hsf.org.za/resource-centre/roundtable-series/issue-twenty-eight-october-2013-title-and-entitlement-the-land-question-in-south-africa/view

Abahlali baseMjondolo shack dwellers movement continues resistance but faces assassinations

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/11/south-africa-fight-decent-housing-assassination

Nomboniso Gasa and Thami Mdontswa on Land question in Justice Factor

Andisiwe Makinana, Traditional courts fracas goes on

Traditional courts fracas goes on

Rebecca Davis, Traditional Courts bill: Rural people won’t give away their rights to seal pre-eleciton deals

http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2013-10-16-traditional-courts-bill-rural-people-wont-give-away-their-rights-to-seal-pre-election-deals/#.Ul45oBbH0y5

Sipho Kings, Coal comfort on the edge of despair

Coal comfort on the edge of despair

The Right to Shelter: Let Down by the Judicial System in South Africa. Interview with Professor Bonita Meyersfeld, Centre for Applied Legal Studies, Wits

http://sacsis.org.za/site/article/1697

Nomboniso Gasa, Complex legacy of 1913 land act

http://www.dispatch.co.za/insight-complex-legacy-of-1913-land-act-held-captive/

Niki Moore,Anatomy of an assassination

Political assassinations are becoming a fairly routine part of political life in a number of provinces and many of the victims are alleged whistleblowers exposing corruption in the provision of housing and other basic rights.  It is part of a broader subversion of constitutionalism and widespread resort to violence to implement private goals, albeit as leaders at various levels of the ANC.

http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2013-07-31-kzn-anatomy-of-an-assassination/#.UfkmfhbH0y5

Poverty reduction programme outsourced to Zuma cousin programmes to support small farmers

http://www.citypress.co.za/politics/zuma-cousin-to-coin-it-with-masibambisane/

Aninka Claassens, Imposed tribal boundaries lock democracy out

Aninka Claassens