The IRR is taking legal advice on possible steps against the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) for peddling a blatant factual inaccuracy on land ownership in South Africa.

By this time next week, the Expropriation Bill of 2020 (the Bill) may already have been adopted by the portfolio committee on public works and infrastructure and sent on to the National Assembly for its endorsement.

In his Budget speech in February, Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana announced the decision to increase the Health Promotion Levy (sugar tax).

Young people should realise that they do not need to own land in order to earn good money or have a career in agriculture or farming.

South Africa’s land reform policy remains highly contested.

When the African National Congress came to power in South Africa in 1994, an expressed priority was land reform.

And it’s not surprising. The power’s off, over a third of the country is out of work, the cost of living is biting into even the most essential purchases. Worries are not just for the grocery bill or the next bond payment, but for the children’s future. Ons kry almal swaar.

We have the land, we have the hands, but where is the plan to put them together so that our country can actually work?” This question rings in my ears every time I think about land in South Africa.

South Africa’s journey towards equitable land reform is a critical issue, embedding deep historical injustices that demand rectification.

More than two decades after tens of thousands of labour tenants lodged land claims, only a little more than half of these claims have been finalised.

– Ever since the land reform programme was initiated in 1994, the hopes of communities forcibly removed from their ancestral land have been dampened by the slow progress of land restitution and redistribution. Despite government efforts, it is clear that state resources alone are insufficient to address the complex issue of land reform in South Africa.

The nature and history of the African National Congress (ANC) cannot be discounted when reading the text of the new Expropriation Act.

South Africa’s new Expropriation Act, which was signed into law by President Cyril Ramaphosa in January 2025, has been at the centre of a political storm set off by the new US administration under President Donald Trump.

With relations between the South African and United States governments at a low point, it seems likely that South Africa’s inclusion in the African Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa) will not be renewed in September. 

“We’re saying to the white people, let’s live together in peace, but we can’t live in peace if you don’t give us back what you stole from us.” So said leader of EFF at a Youth Day rally last week at the King Zwelithini Stadium in Kwazulu-Natal.

Land Reform: For decades, land reform in South Africa has been seen as a symbol of political intent, a rallying cry for justice, transformation, and restitution.

South African agriculture stands at a crossroads. The recently concluded Annual Conference of the Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa (AEASA) once again illuminated a painful truth: the agricultural sector remains deeply divided, still shaped by the enduring legacy of colonial and apartheid structures.

170,000+ square kilometres of the entire country is owned by the state . Yes the ANC has sat on this land for 31 years.