The land reform debate in South Africa has become increasingly polarised since Parliament resolved to consider amending the country’s Constitution to allow for the expropriation of land without compensation. But the slow pace of land reform – a process that aims to address the dispossession of the previously oppressed black majority – will not be solved by amending the Constitution. That is […]
To be successful in its outcomes, land reform requires policy frameworks and other processes to be in place. The built environment and human settlements ecosystems remain prohibitive to the process and require change. The constitution demands spatial justice for those who were subjected to the Apartheid legacy. One process to address it is the Spatial […]
Despite over two decades of intervention, land reform in South Africa is failing [1; 2]. The failure of land reform is attributed to an inappropriate logic of land reform [2], which we link to differences in how land is understood, giving rise to application of inappropriate theory for the context [3, 4]. For land reform […]
Land reform in South Africa is a complex matter and efforts to ensure sustainable land distribution and authenticated land restitution need to be supported. More funding, increased resources and efficient management of the land reform process will go a long way towards speeding up the land claims and redistribution processes as well as preventing […]
On 15 April 2015 the Khaya Lam Land Reform project delivered property ownership and prosperity to 159 more Ngwathe, Free State, families deprived of ownership rights by apartheid, and announced pledges of free hold titles for more than 200 other tenants in Ngwathe. The Khaya Lam Land Reform initiative is a partnership between the […]
As South Africa enters its worst drought in over 20 years, the balance of power in the food security versus land reform debate has shifted fundamentally. Speaking at the 2015 Grain SA Congress in early March, the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Senzeni Zokwana expressed concern over the impact of drought on food […]
An historic meeting took place at Weiveld Boerevereniging, Parys, on 17 October 2014, when twenty-four farmers agreed to pay R750 000 to a Land Reform Project (LRP) that will assist their employees to become homeowners for the first time and see 406 houses converted to freehold. This Land Reform Project has the backing of […]
Under the new Property Valuation Act, the price of land will be fixed by the Valuer-General, and as such, there will be no necessity to reach agreement with the land owner on price. But far from facilitating and accelerating the land restitution process, the new Act is very likely to have the opposite effect. […]
