As the new year gets under way, property rights – their maintenance or degradation – look set to be a major policy theme.

Most South Africans are now understandably keen to see the end of 2020 and are hoping for better times in 2021, after what has been a rollercoaster year for SA’s political economy.

Smallholders and family farms, Indigenous people, rural women, youth, and landless rural communities are being squeezed into increasingly smaller parcels of land or forced out entirely as global land inequality grows around the world, according to a new report.

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Food. It’s all most consider when thinking about what a farmer’s job is all about Where are you going to locate your next supper and what amount of time will it require to get it? Getting comfortable at one spot for a really long time will prompt starvation if there were no farmers.

While farmland has long been considered a safe-haven investment, the Covid-19 pandemic and a general trend towards environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing are pushing more institutional investors, particularly pension funds, to look more closely at this alternative asset class.

Applications to apply for government’s presidential stimulus package worth R1 billion, opens on Thursday 10 December.