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and Elia Chitata - Candidate Attorney With the introduction of the Restitution of Land Rights Act 22 of 1994, which allowed both individuals and communities alike [...]

Bulelwa Mabasa, Director and Head of Land Reform, spoke to 702 discussing the potential new mining rush for critical minerals in South Africa and the [...]

The advent of the of the discovery of new critical minerals in the quest to fulfil the growing demand for a low-carbon economy, has had unique [...]

On 27 February 2024, the Constitutional Court heard oral arguments in the matter of Charnell Commando and Others v City of Cape Town and Another (Abahlali [...]

Marking its 30th anniversary of the Investing in Mining Indaba in Cape Town, which incidentally coincides with South Africa's 30 years as a democracy, common themes [...]

Green Revolution With over 6000 thousand delegates having descended at the CTICC in Cape Town for the annual Investing in Africa Mining Indaba 2023, which delegates [...]

Deputy President David Mabuza leading Inter-Ministerial Committee on land reform convened the Communal Land Administration and Tenure Summit on 27 - 28 May 2022, involving NGOs, [...]

The Expropriation Bill B3-2020 South Africans have recently been presented with the Expropriation Bill B3-2020 ("the Bill"). While the Bill has drawn vociferous criticism from various [...]

by Thomas Karberg, Candidate Attorney reviewed by Bulelwa Mabasa, Director and Head of Land Reform Restitution & Tenure Practice  Introduction In 2019, the Parliamentary Advisory Panel [...]

By Bulelwa Mabasa, Director and Head of Land Reform Restitution & Tenure Practice; and Khwezi Mabasa, Senior Researcher: Political Economy at Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection [...]

By Anele Ngidi, Director and Thomas Karberg, Candidate Attorney The latter part of 2019 was marred by a series of protests and attacks on foreign nationals [...]

By Bulelwa Mabasa, Head of Land Reform, Restitution & Tenure and Anele Ngidi, Director The legislative landscape of the national policy on land is currently undergoing [...]

By Bulelwa Mabasa, Director and Refilwe Moitse, Associate "We the people of South Africa, declare for all our country and the world to know: the land [...]

By Anele Ngidi, Director Land invasions have become an all too familiar fixture of our daily headlines. Images of occupiers against law enforcement and sometimes also [...]

The ANC has been embroiled in an internal debate on how to operationalise the resolution it took in its 54th National Conference in Nasrec, to expropriate [...]

The need for land expropriation must be characterised and understood as being foremost about social justice and a constitutional imperative. It is about the majority's anticipation [...]

The National Land Audit has recently been made public. This report was primarily phase 2 of a Land Audit that was conducted in 2011.  Whilst it [...]

INTRODUCTION   During the 2016 State of the Nation Address, the president of the Republic of South Africa first announced that a Bill regulating the ownership [...]