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31 March 2024
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A causa do incêndio está a ser investigada
Duas pessoas morreram e quase 2.000 ficaram desalojadas quando incêndios consumiram centenas de barracas em três incidentes distintos na Cidade do Cabo, na África do Sul, durante o fim-de-semana,…
13 February 2024
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C’est avec grand plaisir que NELGA annonce la publication de l’appel à propositions pour les bourses postdoctorales de NELGA. Nous encourageons les chercheurs émergents, en particulier les femmes, à saisir cette opportunité pour approfondir leur carrière…
19 January 2024
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Le buffle africain, espèce emblématique des grands espaces sauvages, est le sujet d’un ouvrage collectif en anglais et intitulé Ecology and Management of the African Buffalo, publié près de 30 ans après le dernier ouvrage de référence dédié à l’…
12 September 2023
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Face à la menace du changement climatique, les gouvernements du monde entier déploient des moyens importants pour protéger leurs agricultures. Mais derrière le consensus sur la nécessité d'agir vite, se cache une compétition…
1 March 2023
Corruption Watch is participating in an eight-country study on land-related corruption and a recent baseline survey of four local communities suggests that not only has corruption become deeply embedded in issues of land redress, but it is perpetrated by figures of authority, including municipal…
20 February 2023
Njalo ngonyaka sikhokh’ imali yamasim’ enduneni (Every year we pay land fees to the chief), goes the line in the hit song, Imbizo, released in 1992 by maskandi legends Phuzekhemisi and his late brother Khethani. Nithi siyithathaphi imali? it asks a little later. Where do you think we get the money…
30 January 2023
NELGA has put out nine country profiles about South Sudan, South Africa, Nigeria, Niger, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Tunisia, Egypt, and Mauritania. These profiles give information about pastoralism and small-scale agriculture in these countries. Through research on the current state of land governance…
27 January 2023
100 houses allocated to victims of the Group Areas Act
The view from the ruins of Luyolo township in Simon’s Town where people were forcibly removed in the 1960s. Photo: Lucas Nowicki
The street in Gugulethu where the Luyolo community was moved to in 1965, and where many descendants still live…
12 December 2022
Data limite: 31-Dez-22
O objetivo do projeto é abordar a desigualdade de gênero e o empoderamento econômico inclusivo para as mulheres africanas.
Especificamente, o Projeto visa aumentar a capacidade e a sustentabilidade dos capacitadores que apóiam as Pequenas e Médias Empresas (WSMEs - sigla em…
8 December 2022
When an American oil company discovered a massive natural gas reserve off the coast of Mozambique in early 2010, the country appeared poised for a brighter future. After more than a decade of relying on foreign aid to recover from a bloody civil war, here was an opportunity to gain financial…
17 October 2022
There is widespread agreement that land reform in South Africa has failed to deliver the changes many hoped it would. Racially based dislocation and land dispossession were central features of colonial conquest and apartheid rule. To redress this, in 1994, the newly elected African National…
7 October 2022
The South African government is considering various options regarding the contentious matter of land under traditional leadership and part of the land tenure system including Ingonyama Trust, said Deputy President David Mabuza.
“These would be finalised by Cabinet, and will be considered…