Land ownership in South Africa is a complex topic, with dozens of laws regulating the purchase, redistribution, and tenure of land, as well as the property rights of landowners. These laws date back decades, through pre- and post-colonial apartheid eras, and they govern different spaces – urban and…
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28 March 2023
28 Mar 2023
REFLECTIONS FROM ZIMBABWEAN FARMERS ON WEST AFRICA PEASANTS’ SEED FAIR
The theme of the fair was, Food Sovereignty: People’s Rights in the Face of the Rise of Genetically Modified Organisms in Africa, with the objective ofstrengthening movement building for the promotion of farmer-…
27 March 2023
This tribute by Ian Scoones first appeared on the Zimbabweland blog
I first encountered Robin via his academic work and his brilliant book Land and Racial Domination in Rhodesia, alongside the collection edited with Neil Parsons, Roots of Rural Poverty in Central and Southern Africa. Both…
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17 November 2023
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In a thought-provoking webinar moderated by Nolundi Luwaya, Director of the Land and Accountability Research Centre at the University of Cape Town, experts from across Africa convened to unravel the complexities of the role of traditional authorities in…
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23 de abril, 2024
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Las personas desfavorecidas y las comunidades marginadas son especialmente vulnerables a estas prácticas. Al mismo tiempo, existen numerosas pruebas de que la discriminación -directa e indirecta-, por motivos que van desde…
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