In South Africa, most of the arable land was taken from Africans by colonial settlers. Ever since apartheid ended in 1994, people who were dispossessed of their land have been trying to get it back.

South Africa’s land reform programme like never before. From the enactment of the Expropriation Act to persistent ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Moving towards addressing the lingering effects of apartheid, South Africa has taken a step toward land reform. President Cyril ...

The committee found that there is a lack of oversight and limited monitoring and support from the Department of Land Reform and Rural Development (DLRRD) to the CPAs in the Northern Cape. It expressed ...

Among some foreign observers, there has long been concern that South Africa could go down a similar path as Zimbabwe. More particularly there is anxiety that South Africa’s robust democratic ...

Reverend Mbhekiseni Mavuso faced his community being forcibly removed from their ancestral land in the 1960s. Today, they ...

A year after calling for the release of 2.5 million hectares of state-held land, Wandile Sihlobo says South Africa must move ...

On January 23, 2025, President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa signed an Expropriation Act. The law states that the government can legally take private property for public use — but also spells out ...

South Africa has a thriving wildlife economy – enterprises like trophy and meat hunting, ecotourism, live wildlife sales, and game meat production. Government policy considers the sector key to ...

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 ...