By: Daniel Aguirre
Date: February 19th 2016
Source: Frontier Myanmar
Date: February 15th 2016
Source: SABC
Civil Society will head to the Constitutional Court in Braamfontein to challenge the Restitution of Land Rights Amendment Act on Tuesday.
The Act re-opened the land restitution process for another five years.
50 communities will hold a night vigil at the Constitutional Court to voice their disapproval of the timing of the new process.
By: Staff Reporter
Date: February 15th 2016
Source: Times Live
The land reform plan President Jacob Zuma envisaged in his State of the Nation address on Thursday will prompt a mass exodus of foreign investors, AfriBusiness has warned.
AfriBusiness said Zuma was "creating more investment uncertainty" and that it would oppose any legislation licensing land expropriation.
By: Linda Rowley (property editor)
Date: February 10th 2016
Source: Beef Central
The scope for pastoral diversification in Western Australia’s Kimberley/Pilbara region has been limited by outdated land tenure laws that are now being overhauled by the WA state government. The new form of land tenure known as the ‘Rangelands Lease’ follows years of lobbying by pastoralists. (...)
Date: February 5th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / New Era
The Ministry of Land Reform is pondering the possibility of increasing the benefits associated with the registration of communal land rights.
Currently, registered communal land owners are only issued with a certificate. One of the possibilities could be that of using the certificate as collateral.
By: Kizito Makoye
Date: February 4th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
JAMBIANI, Tanzania, Feb 4 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Zuhura Salim was not entirely sure her family would ever recover a piece of land that her father-in-law seized when her husband died in a fishing accident some 11 years ago.
By: Jan-Jan Joubert
Date: February 3rd 2016
Source: Times Live
The Expropriation Bill, which will set the rules under which the state can lay claim to urban and rural property, was passed by the parliamentary portfolio committee on public works yesterday.
The ANC voted in favour of the bill. The DA and UDM voted against it, the IFP abstained and the EFF was absent from proceedings.
By: Francis Mugerwa, George Muzoora & Ronald Tumusiime
Date: January 31st 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / The Monitor
Gomba — President Museveni has promised to introduce an amendment to the land law to improve land tenure security and curb the tide in illegal evictions that the current law has failed to stop.
By: Deodatus Mfugale
Date: February 1st 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / Tanzania Daily News
ANALYSIS
In September 2015, a group comprising eight non-governmental organisations that deal with land rights and extractives resources advocacy submitted to the Human Rights Council, Universal Periodic Review (UPR) mechanism, a review of the United Republic of Tanzania for the period from 2012 to 2015.
By: Anthea Jeffery*
Date: February 1st 2016
Source: Business Day Live
Opinion & Analysis
UNDER cover of the race debate, two senior communists (Thulas Nxesi and Jeremy Cronin) are pushing through Parliament the Expropriation Bill that will greatly harm all South Africans — especially the jobless poor.
