After
ten years of democracy, where is land reform going? MARK BUTLER, the chairperson
of the AFRA Board, addresses this question drawing on a paper he wrote with
Graham Phillpot of the Church Land Programme, called: Land in South Africa: Gift
for all or Commodity for a few? Download PDF
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MANGALISO KHUBEKA,
a member of the Tenure Security Co-ordinating Committee, which is the
KwaZulu-Natal branch of the Landless People’s Movement, talks about the
hardships of living on a farm. Download PDF
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ZANELE XABA is a
fieldworker based at AFRA and working with the Legal Cluster. She spends her
days visiting farms, talking to occupiers and labour tenants, negotiating with
land owners and forwarding information to the lawyers in the cluster when her
negotiations fail. Here she reflects on whether there is anything to celebrate
in land reform after ten years of democracy. Download PDF
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The Land Legal
Cluster project represents farm dwellers affected by land rights infringements
and evictions in KwaZulu-Natal. DOMINI LEWIS, a researcher for the cluster and
AFRA, reports. Download PDF (347k)
Boschhoek farm
1312, known locally as KwaHlathikhulu, is situated in the uMzinyathi District in
KwaZulu-Natal. The 1515 hectares once belonged to the Sigweje tribe. The state
now owns it and the South African National Defence Force use it to train Fifty
South African Battalion (5 SAI) and have done so since 1971. Leader of the
tribe, INKOSI KUNENE, reflects on the history of his people’s attempt to find
land security and the ironies of a post 1994 state that supports its army’s
claim to land over the claim of people that the apartheid army forcibly removed
from the same land. Download PDF
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