Workshop confronting the threat to tenure security posed by vast tribal land...
MEDIA STATEMENT Members of affected rural communities, civil society organisations and academics resolved at a two-day workshop in KwaZulu-Natal on August 12-13 to probe reports of tenure abuses...
View ArticleAbahlali baseMjondolo Chairperson in KwaNdengezi Thuli Ndlovu was...
Below is a press statement from Abahlali baseMjondolo, made on Tuesday, 30 September 2014: Thuli Ndlovu, the Abahlali baseMjondolo Chairperson in KwaNdengezi, was Assassinated last Night Between half...
View ArticleNew Form of Dispossession: King’s KZN Land Claim Signals Land Grab for...
In recent months, it has been reported that the Zulu King, Goodwill Zwelithini, under the auspices of the Ingonyama Trust, is preparing to lodge a massive land claim that will cover much of the land in...
View ArticleSouth Africa’s Mining Boom: Double Dispossession for the Rural Poor
Dispossession is once again sweeping KwaZulu-Natal. As always in South Africa, it is the poorest of the poor who bear the brunt. As always they are black and mainly rural. The dispossessor this time is...
View ArticleMoves to empower chiefs bad for democracy*
Does the African National Congress (ANC) now feel more comfortable with chiefs and princes than with the people? After losing 10 percentage points in Gauteng in May’s election, the ANC vowed to...
View ArticleKgalema Motlanthe’s High Level Panel calls for repeal of Ingonyama Trust Act
The Ingonyama Trust headed by Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu should be dissolved and the law that established it on the eve of South Africa’s liberation in 1994 should be repealed says an...
View ArticlePublic hearings on land have largely missed the nuance of this complex topic
The release of Kgalema Motlanthe’s High Level Panel report in November 2017, alongside resolutions from the 54th conference of the African National Congress (ANC) and the ultimate success of an...
View ArticleRural women fight for the right to own ‘their’ land
South Africa’s constitutional watchdog, backed by several brave rural women from KwaZulu-Natal, went to court this week in a bid to stop King Goodwill Zwelithini’s Ingonyama Trust turning land owners...
View ArticleThe value of land for people displaced by mining cannot be measured in...
By Shannon Herd-Hoare and Ramabina Mahapa If mining comes to Makhasaneni in rural KwaZulu-Natal, will the community be compensated fairly — and how? The market value of land or immovables such as...
View ArticleKZN’s iSimangaliso Wetland Park threatened by ‘land invasion’
By Tony Carnie A group of more than 200 people, many carrying pangas and bush-clearing knives, have threatened to occupy and clear new farming land in a globally unique forest in the iSimangaliso...
View ArticleZulu King Misuzulu kaZwelithini vows to tackle KZN assassination scourge
By Chris Makhaye Induna Meshack Mbuyazi was gunned down in December 2019 in the Richards Bay area. Inkosi Zibuse Mlaba, who was Cato Ridge’s interim chief and a founding member of Contralesa, was shot...
View ArticleInkosi Mzimela is still the Ingonyama Trust chair despite Buthelezi’s...
By Willem Phungula Despite Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi’s announcement of Inkosi Thanduyise Mzimela’s withdrawal as the new chairperson of the Ingonyama Trust Board on Friday, Mzimela is still in...
View ArticleAnger at mining project
By Zama Ngcoya Melmoth residents fear their livelihoods may be threatened by iron ore mining which is expected to take place there. International mining giant Jindal Steel and Power and its black...
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