Category Archives: Land
Amabhungane reporters, Gupta linked dairy project milks Free State coffers
Aninka Claassens, Reviled Land act is being re-enacted
Nolundi Luwaya, TCB contradicts democracy for which rural people fought
Tara Weinberg, Re-opening restitution, election promises doomed to backfire
Johannesburg seeks to expand its cleansing with preparation of apparently unconstitutional law
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
Advocacy for women’s land rights-plotting way forward by Frances Ann Eberhard and Tara Weinberg,
Land question in South Africa with Nomboniso Gasa, Leon Louw, Songezo Zibi and Monty Narsoo (Helen Suzman Foundation panel)
Abahlali baseMjondolo shack dwellers movement continues resistance but faces assassinations
Nomboniso Gasa and Thami Mdontswa on Land question in Justice Factor
Andisiwe Makinana, Traditional courts fracas goes on
Rebecca Davis, Traditional Courts bill: Rural people won’t give away their rights to seal pre-eleciton deals
Sipho Kings, 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
Nomboniso Gasa, Complex legacy of 1913 land act
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
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