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...

Retired archbishop Desmond Tutu has been appointed to a commission launched by the UN yesterday to develop a strategy for fighting HIV/Aids that gets more mileage out of every dollar spent. The spec...

Submissions to Parliament have mostly requested that the Black Authorities Act be repealed More than 40 women and men from some of the remotest rural enclaves of the country trekked to Parliament th...

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...

All legislation relating to traditional authorities must be scrapped, the National Assembly's rural development and land reform committee has heard. In a presentation to the committee -- currently ...

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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South Africa's Public education system is in serious decline. Reports of dismal graduation rates, bad teachers and crumbling buildings are commonplace. In Eastern Cape Province, one of the poorest reg...

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...

'Desperate lives, twilight worlds: How a million Zimbabweans live without official sanction or sanctuary in South Africa' Published By: Solidarity Peace Trust, Johannesburg Click here to download

The department of social development has tabled an amendment to the Social Assistance Act that civil society organisations believe may worsen the department's enormous backlog in responding to grant a...

LIFE could get even tougher for close to 100 orphaned and abandoned Molteno children.They are being denied foster-care grants - and face the possibility of also losing the care of their foster parents...

THE Centre for Child Law will take Social Development Minister Edna Molewa and an Eastern Cape MEC to court for failing to extend foster grant orders made by the children's court, the Legal Resources ...

THE Centre for Child Law will take Social Development Minister Edna Molewa and an Eastern Cape MEC to court for failing to extend foster grant orders made by the Children's Court, the Legal Resources ...

The Centre for Child Law will take Social Development Minister Edna Molewa and an Eastern Cape MEC to court for failing to extend foster grant orders made by the Children's Court. "On behalf of 93 c...