Land
Small farmers celebrate victory outside Cape High Court
Housing Development Agency agrees to drop eviction proceedings
By Liezl Human
News | 21 November 2023
Spoekiesdorp families haunted by past evictions and uncertain future
“Many of us are here because we were evicted from farms. We were dumped here”
Text by Marecia Damons. Photos by Ashraf Hendricks.
News | 17 November 2023
70 small-scale Musina farmers face eviction
The municipality wants the land for a new township
News | 10 November 2023
Families evicted from farms have been dumped in Spoekiesdorp
The households in the Worcester informal settlement must be relocated, says the South African Human Rights Commission
News | 31 October 2023
Backyarders demolish shacks in Cape Town
Violence and tensions between land occupiers and backyarders has been brewing for months in Khayelitsha
By Vincent Lali
News | 26 October 2023
Richmond land occupiers given refuge in preschool
The eThekwini municipality repeatedly demolishes their shacks located near a river
Brief | 26 October 2023
eThekwini land occupiers claim officials attacked them without warning
The municipality claims it faced violent resistance when it was carrying out shack demolitions
News | 13 October 2023
Eastern Cape family waits for promised right to farm land where their ancestors worked
Department of Rural Development and Land Reform silent on why it’s taken years to issue a lease promised in 2019
News | 3 October 2023
Activists claim thousands of parcels of public land under-used in Cape Town
Ndifuna Ukwazi launches online interactive map to put pressure on government to address land issues
News | 22 September 2023