For black women married in South Africa before 1988, the husband owned all matrimonial assets and could sell them without consulting his wife - until a landmark court judgment ... Read more »

South Africa's ruling African National Congress appears to want a major change to the proposed expropriation without compensation process by removing judges from the equation. ... Read more »

A government official, Duncan Chione from the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development has said the new land law which came into effect in 2018 is still facing resistance ... Read more »

Zimbabwe's former first lady Grace Mugabe could be next on the list, as former allies and relatives of the late former president Robert Mugabe lose their farms to the new ... Read more »

The Zimbabwean government has so far paid 100 former white farm owners, though it maintains it will only pay compensation for infrastructure and improvements on farms and not for ... Read more »

Suspected ruling party supporters have occupied a farm belonging to former president Robert Mugabe on the outskirts of Harare. Earlier President Emmerson Mnangagwa hinted at a ... Read more »

With President Cyril Ramaphosa having signed the Traditional and Khoisan Leadership Bill into law, millions of people living in rural areas have been robbed of fundamental rights, ... Read more »

South African women's land rights activist Sizani Ngubane is one of three finalists for the 2020 Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders, which is referred to as the Nobel ... Read more »

Landless People's Movement leader Bernadus Swartbooi says that if it elected to power his party will introduce a radical land reform programme to address the inequalities created ... Read more »

Princess Edith Mpologoma who is suing the Kabaka of Buganda, Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II, in her lawsuit filed before the Land Division of the High Court, contends that the land in ... Read more »