The government has outlined its vision for an all-inclusive South Africa, where urban rooftops in metropols are used for food production, preparation and distribution for pop-up music performances, and poetry nights.
Parliament has extended the deadline for written submissions on amendments to the Constitution to allow for the expropriation of land without compensation.
Effective land reform is still required, but the Draft Constitution Eighteenth Amendment Bill of 2019 (the Draft Bill) will needlessly undermine the property rights of all South Africans: from the 1 million whites with home ownership to the 8.5 million black, ‘coloured’ and Indian families who own houses too.
Saai – an organisation that protects the interests of family farmers – laid charges on behalf of one of its members at the Brooklyn Police Station today after the Government Employees Pension Fund (GEPF) paid R586,5 million for a 60% share in a 1 028 hectare portion of farmland.
There can be no arguing that the pace of land reform in South Africa needs to be speeded up.
February 11, 1990, was the day millions of black South Africans had been waiting decades for.
Die omvang van grond- en eiendomsbesit in Suid-Afrika is enorm. Suid-Afrika het honderde duisende plase en miljoene eiendomme, nie 10 of 20 nie.
At the core of this year’s budget proposals from South Africa’s national treasury is the admission that national debt is no longer expected to stabilise.
The Democratic Alliance (DA) still do not have an alternative economic policy to offer to the electorate to that of the ANC’s ideology of socialism and communism in South Africa.
Land reform was never going to be easy. To tackle it, the new government shaped a coherent programme in 1994, involving three components: restitution, redistribution and tenure reform. But the laws and policies put in place in that hopeful era have been ignored and overridden in practice.
Nog nooit het 'n pandemie die wereld en sy mense so platgeslaan in die 20 ste eeu, soos die Covid 19 nie- Die wereld het reeds verander- en of die mens gaan aanpas by die nuwe denke en leefwyse gaan ons moet sien.- En daar is eintlik nie 'n ander keuse nie.
TLU SA is urging the Minister of Police, Mr Bheki Cele and President Cyril Ramaphosa to activate the local Farm Watches. South Africans can support this action by signing a petition.
Joint media statement Agri SA and TLU SA
Durban - As the country waits with bated breath on President Cyril Ramaphosa's announcement on Thursday night on whether or not the national lockdown will end at the end of April, a government document – shared widely on social media – has outlined exactly how the government will ease the restrictions.
By banning the transport of alcohol, those regulations have meant that, in practice, there’s no way for wine to move from a winery directly to a consumer anywhere in the country, or from an inland winery to a port at the coast.
The government needs to support all enterprises in its Covid-19 relief funding, regardless of the race, finance minister Tito Mboweni said on Tuesday.
From Angola to Zimbabwe, Southern Africa’s fragile economies are rattled by the coronavirus pandemic.
Support for the lockdown has evaporated as millions of families face the anxiety of a collapse in income, loss of jobs, and for many, real hunger.
The Covid-19 pandemic has forced issues on South Africa’s political agenda that it has long tried to avoid.
Vir byna 60 dae word Suid Afrikaners al gevangene gehou, deur 'n magsbehepte regering, wat sy inwoners soos kinders behandel, in hulle eie land met reels en regulasies waarvan die meeste aan belaglik grens en soos kat en muis speletjies lyk.
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