Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa will meet United States President Donald Trump in the White House on Wednesday, in an ...

There is no discourse in South Africa more ancient, more unresolved, and more weaponised than that of land. The passage of the Expropriation Act in South Africa has set the air thick with tension, a ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has taken a bold stance against South Africa’s controversial land reform law, signing an executive order in early February 2024 that freezes U.S. federal aid to the ...

Two years after the reform law passed, and now that maps are being drafted, a growing chorus of critics ask whether the law’s promise will be realized.

Land ownership is a contentious issue in South Africa, with most farmland still being owned by white people three decades after the end of apartheid. Some Afrikaner farmers believe that the land ...

2025 was the year that subjected the land reform programme to its most rigorous litmus test yet. The enactment of the Expropriation Act at the beginning of the year was the biggest highlight, ...

Heading a brand new US Department of Government Efficiency, Elon Musk has acted as President Donald Trump’s stand-in when it comes to downsizing the federal administration. On 3 February, however, the ...

Roy Prosterman, a one-time Wall Street lawyer and retired University of Washington law professor who founded a Seattle land-reform nonprofit that has helped millions of the world’s most needy, has ...

Marc Wegerif receives research funding from the DSTI-NRF Centre of Excellence in Food Security (CoE-FS). He is a Senior Lecturer in Development Studies at the University of Pretoria and a Principal ...