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DEPARTMENT OF LAND REFORM AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT

Land reform and rural development: A budget for South Africa’s bold agenda for land reform and rural renewal

The Department of Land Reform and Rural Development tabled an ambitious Budget Vote for 2026/27, supported by legislation, investment and a clear vision for equitable land access…

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Minister of Land Reform and Rural Development Mzwanele Nyhontso
CABINET REPORT CARDS 2025

Mzwanele Nyhontso: Land Reform and Rural Development

SCORE: D Nyhontso inherited a backlog of just over 5 700 land claims from 1998 and a further 130 000 that were lodged in 2014 with the ministry, which was paired with agriculture…

  • MG Reporter
1 min read
Lulamile Sidwaba photographed at his home in Pinelands. (Barry Christianson)
ANC

How Lulamile Sidwaba was manoeuvred off his farm

In this second feature on land restitution in Stutterheim, a farmer allocated land by the government loses it to a member of a prominent ANC family

  • Anna Majavu
9 min read
The ITB administers nearly three million hectares of tribal land in KwaZulu-Natal on behalf of King Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu, its sole trustee.
AMIN MIA

Ingonyama Trust Board moves to retrench staff

More than 50 workers at the Ingonyama Trust Board have been issued section 189 notices

  • Paddy Harper
2 min read