Land

What is a fair price for expropriated land?

Supreme Court of Appeal has to decide hotly contested issue

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Law | 18 September 2017

Urban pig co-operative needs land to stay in business

“I started with few pigs and now they are plenty”

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News | 12 September 2017

Title deeds: how do we fix the system?

Experts at Open Book Festival debate different approaches to dealing with property in poor neighbourhoods

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News | 8 September 2017

Facts and myths about the Marikana judgment

No, it doesn’t mean we can build shacks in Sea Point and force the City to buy the land for us

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Law | 5 September 2017

Hundreds of shacks demolished in Khayelitsha

Land occupiers say they will rebuild until City finds solution

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News | 5 September 2017

Landowners fight 100 years of dispossession

The Evaton community want their trust land restored and mining companies to pay compensation

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News | 5 July 2017

Joe Slovo Park residents torch MyCiTi bus after shacks demolished

Land occupation followed removal of school classrooms

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News | 26 June 2017

Police and NPA want land occupiers “punished by the courts”

Protesters accused of attacking school bus

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Brief | 23 June 2017

Khayelitsha land occupiers granted bail

Backyarders from Town Two marched to Lingelethu police station on the weekend demanding release of six people who were arrested

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News | 19 June 2017

Massive land occupation in Khayelitsha

Residents say the land has stood unoccupied for decades

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News | 19 May 2017

Cape Town airport faces land claim

Family members seeking compensation believe they have been cheated

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News | 26 April 2017

Occupiers of church land demand water and sanitation

City says it cannot provide services on Moravian land in Pella

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News | 28 March 2017

School books and uniforms taken by sheriff in shack demolition

“It is becoming difficult to explain our situation to school teachers because this is the third time,” says 15-year-old

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News | 27 March 2017

Masiphumelele residents want permission to occupy vacant City land

Meeting between City officials and residents started and ended chaotically

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News | 15 March 2017

Court case to have major impact on land ownership for black women

Long shadow of apartheid laws perpetuates discrimination

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Law | 13 March 2017

Land reform favours businesses, not the poor, say researchers

Eastern Cape study suggests system provides “little or no tenure security” for intended beneficiaries

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News | 1 March 2017