Guests at the Tugela Private Game Reserve once rambled through the bush in open-air four-wheel-drives in search of leopards, elephants and other wildlife that roamed the 17,000-acre property.

With 2013 being the centenary of the Land Act (No 27 of 1913), and with 2014 marking two decades since the end of apartheid, it is appropriate to assess the extent to which a legacy of discrimination that started generations ago has been addressed in the democratic era.

What would the ANC/SACP alliance do without apartheid? This word has saved their bacon on thousands of occasions.

On Thursday 3 September the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) hosted an online discussion on land activism in South Africa. The discussion was moderated by Boaventura Monjane, a postdoctoral researcher from PLAAS.

The 64th commemoration of Human Rights Day on 21 March 2024 serves as a stark reminder of the brutality of the apartheid regime and the urgency to address the legacy of landlessness that was precipitated by state-orchestrated land dispossession which created racially skewed ownership patterns that have excluded the majority of South Africans from land assets and inclusion in rural economies.

Thirty years after the end of apartheid, South Africa remains a troubled country with glaring racial disparities in income, employment, and access to everything from adequate housing to drinking water and electricity. But the abundant challenges that continue to face the country belie strenuous efforts at restitution and racial reconciliation—efforts that, in South Africa, have often focused on land.

In South Africa, most of the arable land was taken from African people by colonial settlers. Ever since apartheid ended in 1994, people who were dispossessed of their land have been trying to get it back.

South Africa has staunchly rejected a report published on the website of the US Department of State about human rights practices in the country.