“BLF on drive to give land to the landless” – sabc
24 July 2017 By Sashin Naidoo “The Black First Land First (BLF) movement says it has begun occupying open land in Ekurhuleni and giving it to landless people in the [...]
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“Namibia: Landless Grab Land At Katima” – AllAfrica
20 July 2017 By Obrein Simasiku Omuthiya “Hundreds of people at Katima Mulilo in the Zambezi Region, frustrated by the snail-pace at which residential land is being [...]
“Activists fret as fracking exploration company given green light in KZN” – The Citizen
20 July 2017 “KZN’s northern inland has become a focal point for various exploration companies eager to find large deposits of hydrocarbons. A gas and oil [...]
“Pilot Study Tracking Implementation of AU Land Declaration Launched in Ghana” – AllAfrica
20 July 2017 “Accra — The Land Policy Initiative (LPI) and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) today unveiled a Monitoring and Evaluation of [...]
“We are gearing up for numerous land grabs across SA – BLF are coming for the land” – The South African
20 July 2017 By Nic Andersen “Black First Land First (BLF) has told journalists that the organisation is preparing to grab land all across the country. The land grabs [...]
“Land ‘hijack’ turns ugly” – TheNewAge
19 July 2017 By Mthokozisi Dube “Bloodshed looms as Mpumalanga’s Mawulu community is entangled in a fierce dispute with two white farmers over their alleged [...]
“Community up in arms” – ANN7
19 July 2017 By Mthokozisi Dube “A furious Mpumalanga community has blasted two white farmers as “heartless and disrespectful” after they started clearing the [...]
“We’re taking back the land, says BLF as it prepares for land grabs” – The Citizen
19 July 2017 “…Black First Land First (BLF) leader Andile Mngxitama on Wednesday said his organisation was gearing up for extensive land grabs across South [...]
“Fear of land seizures prompts major rise in farm sales” – The Citizen
19 July 2017 By Simnikiwe Hlatshaneni “The biggest mass exodus of farmers in 20 years has also been blamed on high input costs, low returns and currency [...]
“African governments urged to secure land rights for all” – UNECA
17 July 2017 “Insecure forest and land rights trigger widespread poverty, gender disparity, lack of economic growth, social unrest, conflicts and investment risks, says [...]
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