Land reform was never going to be easy. To tackle it, the new government shaped a coherent programme in 1994, involving three components: restitution, redistribution and tenure reform. But the laws and policies put in place in that hopeful era have been ignored and overridden in practice.

- As South Africa celebrates the 60th anniversary of Human Rights Day, it’s worthwhile to reflect on land reform.

TLU SA today launched a campaign to object to unreasonable property valuations.

Land expropriation without compensation will only benefit the elite at the cost of South Africa.

South Africa's slow land claims process is set to face even more delays - this time due to the coronavirus pandemic.

In recent years, the ongoing land debate in South Africa has been drawing a lot of the world’s attention.

The COVID-19 crisis has clearly demonstrated the vulnerability of the livelihoods of many South Africans, and highlighted food insecurity as one key aspect.

The South African agriculture sector has the potential to be amongst the sectors that will drive economic growth and job creation during the post-COVID-19 recovery phrase.

There is consensus that land reform is an indispensable yet complicated process often overloaded with multiple objectives including economic, social and political underpinnings.

 Rural women across Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe are being dispossessed by corporates and state-backed land grabbers as well as urban and rural elites.

South Africa’s poverty levels have increased sharply over the past five years with an additional 3 million people now classified as living in absolute poverty.

Parliamentarians are greatly concerned that the Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development has had to slice some R2.4 billion from its R16.8 billion budget.

South Africa's land reform programme was supposed to ensure that the impoverished get to own and work the land. Now, only the politically connected and economically included are benefitting.

Government-driven land reform programmes will falter if women from beneficiary communities do not play a central role in the governance of communal property associations (CPAs) and the programme is not accompanied by financial and technical support.

President Robert Mugabe’s notorious land reforms in the early 2000s robbed thousands of Zimbabwean farmers of their land, and of their livelihoods.

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.

On August 31, the government of Zimbabwe announced that foreign white farmers settled in the country who lost land between 2000 and 2001 under former President Robert Mugabe's controversial programme of land reform designed to empower landless Black peasants could apply to get it back.

Land reform is central to South Africa's quest for social justice. During the apartheid era, land was concentrated in the hands of the white minority.

The African National Congress (ANC) is determined to use Parliament as a mere rubber stamp for its December 2017 decision to amend Section 25 of the Constitution (the property clause) to allow expropriation without compensation (EWC). And Parliament continues to go along with this – and to pretend that it is doing a proper job on the most important legislative change ever to come before it since 1994.

TLU SA is nie oortuig dat die regering die verskil tussen landbou en sosio-maatskaplike hulp besef nie.