100 Years After South Africa's Land Act
South Africa is marking the centenary of the 1913 Natives' Land Act, a piece of legislation which effectively excluded the black population from the ownership of some 90% of the country's land. Since the begining of demcoracy land redistribution has been a thorny issue with many still waiting to reclaim their stolen land.
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South Africa:
Evaluate Land Redistribution - ANC
SAPA, 19 June 2013
The centenary of the 1913 Natives Land Act provides an opportunity for South Africa to evaluate progress made in land redistribution, the ANC said on Wednesday. Read more »
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South Africa:
The 100 Years (centenary) of the Most Oppressive Piece of Legislation (native Land Act)
COSATU, 19 June 2013
The Food and Allied Workers Union (FAWU) calls on all South Africans to observe a moment (100 seconds) of silence in commemoration of the 100 years (anniversary) of Native Land Act… Read more »
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South Africa:
South Africa - Land Reform Debates Heat Up Again, 100 Years After the Natives Land Act
ThinkAfricaPress, 19 June 2013
A bolder and more wholesale approach to restructuring South Africa's rural economy is needed. Read more »
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South Africa:
A Hundred Years After the 1913 Land Act
SACSIS, 18 June 2013
In 1652, the year that Jan van Riebeck first stepped on to these shores, Gerrad Winstanley, an English radical, published a pamphlet called The Law of Freedom in a Platform. Three… Read more »
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South Africa:
Shunting Hectares - Land Reform in South Africa
Africa Research Institute, 18 June 2013
Greater economic and financial commitment - and a fundamental restructuring of the rural economy - are needed if South African land reform is to progress. Does a raft of new… Read more »
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South Africa:
ANC Blocks DA Motion On Legacy of 1913 Land Act
DA, 18 June 2013
Today, the day before the centenary on the Native Land Act of 1913, members of the ANC in the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) inexplicably rejected a DA motion which sought to… Read more »
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South Africa:
Cosatu Statement On Centenary of Natives Land Act of 1913
COSATU, 18 June 2013
Most centenaries, like that of the African National Congress last year, are cause for much celebration and pride. Today however, we mark a centenary which gives us absolutely no… Read more »
