PRESIDENT Jacob Zuma recently expressed his disappointment about the lack of success of the government's land restitution and land reform programmes, saying that, "among other things, this is a result...

PARLIAMENT - The geographic boundaries of the Black Authorities Act (BAA), while having been expunged from the statute books, remain firmly in place through the complex myriad of post-apartheid legisl...

Submissions to Parliament have mostly requested that the Black Authorities Act be repealed More than 40 women and men from some of the remotest rural enclaves of the country trekked to Parliament th...

A Venda chief has been ordered to stop building a tourist lodge next to a waterfall, which a local community believes is sacred and is home to their ancestors. The court order is a major victory for...

THE government is giving the land reform programme a bad name by failing to honour sales agreements, says the Legal Resources Centre that has represented both farmers and claimants in the Land Claims ...

Details of secret midnight rituals conducted over countless generations at the Phiphidi waterfall near Thohoyandou have emerged as the clan that protects the site fights to save it from destruction. ...

CAPE TOWN-The long delay in resolving the land claims of dispossessed rural communities had prevented them from exercising their rights to mine the land, the Legal Resources Centre will tell Parliamen...

On Tuesday 11th May 2010, the Constitutional Court declared the Communal Land Right Act (CLaRA) unconstitutional. Represented by Legal Resources Centre and the Webber Wentzel Pro Bono Unit, the four...

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The government is preparing to overhaul land reform legislation, with the controversial Expropriation Bill coming off the shelf and the agriculture department looking at legislating targets for BEE ow...

The task team established to advise the Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabangu on the proposed heavy minerals mine at Xolobeni on South Africa's Wild Coast has submitted its report and recommendati...

THERE was something surreal about the Constitutional Court hearing on Tuesday about whether 21-million South Africans should be consigned to a form of subservience under tribal dictatorships that not ...

A CONTROVERSIAL law that seeks to reform land ownership in former homelands came under fire in the Constitutional Court yesterday for entrenching racist land allocation practices prevalent under apart...

The hearings involving interested parties appealing a decision to grant Transworld Energy Minerals (TEM) a licence to mine heavy minerals from the dunes near Xolobeni on the Wild Coast, scheduled to t...

A NEW round of hearings begins in Durban next week to debate controversial plans for dune mining at Xolobeni on the Wild Coast. Part of the mining venture by an Australian company and local empowerme...

On 8, 9 and 10 February 2010, the Minerals and Mining Development Board will receive oral submissions on behalf of interested parties involved in the appeal against the Minister's decision to grant a ...

Applicants' Heads of Argument Index to the Founding Papers Founding Papers 12th &13th Respondents' Response to the Applicants' Application in terms of Rules 11, 19 and 16 (4) Annexures to ...

The mineral rights expropriation case that two Italian granite mining companies have brought against government might be settles before the case goes to the Hague in mid-April. Mineral resources dir...

On 10 November 2009, 22 people gathered at the Embassy of Finland in Johannesburg for a seminar to discuss key parts of a new commonage manual. The Joint Municipal Commonage Seminar was convened by th...

AN Ottery family who had instituted a land claim for a Rondebosch property they had to evacuate under apartheid, now occupied by a medical centre, are going to court to have a memorial plaque put u...