Seeing land rights as the key to lifting up the impoverished, he pushed authoritarian governments as well as emerging ...

A law review article piqued his interest in land reform, a term used in legal and policy parlance to describe the transfer of land rights, often from large, wealthy landowners to poorly paid laborers.

Discover the challenges faced by South Africa’s Land Rights Management Unit as it struggles to deliver justice to the country ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa said that land reform was an issue that was 'top of mind' in the seventh administration.

This may be around the nature of a ‘farm’ and what place is called ‘home’. These themes are explored in this blog, as they ...

If the government truly cares about land reform, it should focus on ensuring all Zimbabweans have access to productive land, providing support for farmers ...

The system for compulsory purchase orders is to be streamlined and the role of development corporations expanded in a bid to ...

Corruption, land reform failures, and sky-rocketing electricity prices are worsening South Africa’s hunger crisis, with one ...

UW Professor Emeritus Roy Prosterman, was the founder of Landesa, an international nonprofit that has impacted tens of millions of people in the world's poorest countries.

There is no discourse in South Africa more ancient, more unresolved, and more weaponised than that of land. The passage of ...

South Africa's new Expropriation Act, which was signed into law by President Cyril Ramaphosa in January 2025, has been at the centre of a political storm set off by the new US administration under ...

Property rights remain intact in South Africa. Hot on the heels of this furore has been a notice from the minister of land reform and rural development, Mzwanele Nyhontso, that the government is ...