Land

Eldorado Park occupiers picket police station after shack demolitions

They accuse the police of brutality during an eviction operation last week

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Brief | 27 October 2025

Court green-lights eviction of over 1,800 Ballito residents

But KwaDukuza Municipality must satisfy the court it has a plan to relocate them with services

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Law | 24 October 2025

Land spat highlights tension between traditional and formal law

It’s often unclear who owns land in traditional communities — the individual or the traditional authority

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Feature | 16 October 2025

Landowners must go through mediation before applying for an eviction, court rules

Land Court lays out rules for mediation procedures

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Law | 3 October 2025

Fire devastates community owned farm

The land for Mavhungeni farm had been restored to the community after a successful land claim

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Brief | 12 September 2025

Give us each a hectare of land, say women farm workers

Farm workers who produce the country’s food often go hungry, says Women on Farms Project

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News | 29 August 2025

Concourt confirms stopping people from letting their cattle graze amounts to eviction

The ruling applies to ESTA occupiers’ rights to graze cattle

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Law | 1 August 2025

Lesotho dams authority fights back in “legally baseless” court case

Court applicants say the LHDA has failed to compensate them adequately after they were displaced

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Law | 14 July 2025

The human cost of SA’s water lifeline: Lesotho communities go to court

Thousands of people and hundreds of businesses are taking the Lesotho Highlands Development Authority to court over the Katse and other dam projects

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Law | 11 July 2025

Court delays leave pensioner locked out of her own home

Four years later, the unlawful occupants have still not been evicted

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News | 4 July 2025

Court rules on farm worker land rights

Supreme Court of Appeal rules against eviction of people living on rural land in Stellenbosch

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Law | 20 May 2025

Flower farm keeps Constantia’s coloured heritage alive

Jaftha brothers help heal a history of land dispossession

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News | 30 April 2025

Construction of homes for Bishopscourt land claimants set to begin

Displaced community received 12-hectares of prime property in affluent Cape Town suburb

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News | 12 March 2025

The Expropriation Act: We are focusing on the wrong questions

The shrill debate is a distraction from the real issue

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Opinion | 28 February 2025

Bishopscourt land claimants to finally break ground on housing development

This comes 20 years after their claim was officially granted

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News | 12 February 2025

300 families from Rabie Ridge go to court to fight eviction

The City of Johannesburg says the land occupation is stopping a housing development

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Brief | 13 November 2024