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The ANC’s claim on black voters still rests on a story of deliverance. The SACP’s claim rests on a story of unfinished deliverance. Both stories derive legitimacy from the same past but they license different futures

Mbalula: SACP’s decision to contest elections will split members

There are concerns that the decision will weaken the ANC in future elections

National sovereignty has been a key undercurrent from delegates representing the Global South.

G20 youth confront challenges of multilateral cooperation, national sovereignty

The Y20 summit revealed disparities in youth-driven calls for climate justice, inclusive growth and sovereignty between the Global South and North

CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA – May 6, 1990: F.W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela during negotiations between the Apartheid government and the ANC. (Photo by Gallo Images via Getty Images/ Sunday Times)

A new GNU: South Africa’s first democratic election and the evolution of power sharing in the ANC

The majority of 1994’s voters recognised the GNU script because they co-authored it, and were assured of explanations if deviations were unavoidable

Dirco spokesperson Chrispin Phiri. (@Chrispin_JPhiri/Twitter)

ANC Youth League wants government to change land programme to avoid creating ‘rural elite’

Chrispin Phiri has opted out of the league’s leadership contest but still hopes to influence the organisation through its national executive committee

Women are the backbone of food production and environmental sustainability. They make up 60% of the global agricultural labour force and are responsible for half of the world’s food production. (Delwyn Verasamy)

Redistribution of land remains a man’s world in South Africa

Legislation and political will are needed to set land targets that consider the needs of women

Cyril Ramaphosa, South African President with Fikile Mbalula, South African Minister of Transport in Folweni during African National Congress (ANC) election campaign on October 09, 2021 in Durban, South Africa. The campaign aimed to galvanize voters, including members and supporters, to vote for ward candidates representing the ANC and to populate the ANC 2021 LGE manifesto. (Photo by Darren Stewart/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

Local government elections: A review of the ANC, DA and EFF manifestos

As the three big parties make their last attempts to woo voters in this year’s local government elections, we look back at the promises in their manifestos

EFF leader Julius Malema. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

EFF produces ambitious manifesto, promising land redistribution

The EFF has made bold promises to root out corruption in ailing municipalities and redistribute land to the poor ahead of this year’s local government elections.

Violation: The labour tenancy system is a result of land dispossession by colonialism and apartheid . Photo David Turnley/Corbis/VCG/Getty Images

Labour tenants want more than land back

They want to be compensated for shattered dreams, material losses, cattle impounded and never returned, goats killed, homes burnt to ashes, and their dignity stripped when they…

Shut out: Some small-scale farmers, such as Johannes Ntuli, have not received a cent from government despite policies that are meant to uplift them and their agribusinesses. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Money instead of land

The majority of previously dispossessed people choose money over property, while land reform has become the preserve of the affluent. Is there another way to think about land…

Shahied Ajam was driving development plans for District Six. (David Harrison/M&G)

District Six wound to be healed

Plans include reintroducing Hanover Street and property rights for returning victims of removals

EFF leader Julius Malema. Photo by Delwyn Verasamy/M&G

EFF tackles apartheid legislation

While the ANC in Parliament found itself defending the presence of FW de Klerk at the State of the Nation address last week, the government was also — in court this time —…

Shut out: Some small-scale farmers, such as Johannes Ntuli, have not received a cent from government despite policies that are meant to uplift them and their agribusinesses. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Land reform captured by the elite

According to a new report, the poor remain on the sidelines of farm redistribution

Aside from smear campaigns that may, or may not have been concocted to tarnish the reputation of his empire, Rupert has been reticent about matters of politics and social redress. That is until Tuesday night.(PowerFM/Twitter)

Who cares about Johann Rupert anyway?

Businessperson Johann Rupert caused a Twitter storm with users describing him as racist, tribalist and arrogant for his comments

“Seventy years after apartheid rule commenced, our land redistribution programme is an undertaking in restitution, not retribution,” said President Cyril Ramaphosa. (GCIS)

Ramaphosa hands over 4 500 hectares to KZN community

The president said the government would assist the community by developing their ability to create sustainable income and jobs from the land

What we know is that women’s already abrogated land rights are made even worse by the land tenure disaster. (Madelene Cronje/M&G)

Women’s rights must include land rights

Women around the world tell a similar tale of tilling the land and producing food but being denied secure rights to land

US President Donald Trump (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)

Land committee receives 140 000 submissions, faces ‘nightmare’ planning for hearings

The National Assembly in February adopted a motion for a constitutional review allowing for the expropriation of land without compensation

Great growth is possible if small-scale farmers are taken seriously.

Small-scale farmers should be at the centre of land reform in South Africa

South Africa’s land reform programme will fail if it continues to neglect smallholder farming

Eastern Cape premier Phumulo Masualle says the province’s most precious resources are its people and natural resources – which includes the land

Land is the gold required for economic transformation

‘The people of the province must put their shoulders to the wheel’

Members of the Nofingxana community at the handover event

EC government excited as community scores game reserve in land resettlement deal

‘To address the land question we will need legislation that will be as forceful as war’

Harvest season on a wine farm in Stellenbosch

South Africa’s land debate is clouded by misrepresentation and lack of data

South Africa’s land policy is flailing around in the dark, with the haziest of understandings of how well or how badly land reform is doing