The recent fallout between Zulu king Misuzulu kaZwelithini and his now late traditional prime minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi regarding the running of the Ingonyama Trust highlights a pervasive problem in South Africa: insecure land tenure in rural areas.
Land ownership. A thorny subject that still divides South Africa, more than 22 years after the 1994 democratic dispensation. While government’s land reform and redistribution programmes had yielded some successes since 1994, large tracts of land still remain in the hands of very few people.
Allegations cover charges that stretch from 2002 to the present day, mainly to do with the ‘land claims scam’ and the case of conservationist Fred Daniel.
On the western border of the Greater Kruger Conservancy, where the fence has fallen into serious disrepair, a community of 26,000 people faces an eviction order from the national government. Why do the authorities want them off the land? The answer to this question takes us into an apparent sca.
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