Working towards improving access to land and property rights on the African continent
Pretoria, South Africa
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New land expropriation bill submitted to SA Parliament sets out the rules by which government can lay claim to land “in the public interest” and “for public purpose” dailymaverick.co.za/article/…
“No account of the development of transport in Johannesburg would be complete without mention of the tremendous part played by the pedal cycle, of which many thousands were sold... theguardian.com/cities/2019/…
"It’s a terrible irony. South African house prices, adjusted for inflation, are as flat as an ironing board and have been for around a decade." dailymaverick.co.za/article/…
The Land Portal launches their special focus on resources linked to the Voluntary Guidelines on the Governance of Tenure landportal.org/voluntary-gui…
The Land Portal launches a series of State of Land Information scans - how healthy is your land information ecosystem? landportal.org/blog-post/201…
This knowledge sharing platform is launching next week. Please note that many of the resources on the Urban LandMark website (urbanlandmark.org) are also being lodged on this new platform to ensure that the material remains available for as long... facebook.com/UrbanLandAfrica…
As elections approach in South Africa, the significance of the land issue increases nytimes.com/2019/03/09/world…
Yet human beings are not just labour - we are complex, social and interconnected beings whose needs cannot just be collapsed into money aljazeera.com/indepth/opinio…
In South African law one can acquire property or rights to use and occupy that property through prescription, but only if one openly and... dailymaverick.co.za/opinioni…
We're into the second week of the online South African land debate. Join the dialogue organised around ten key questions, such as What is land reform for? landportal.org/debates/2018/…
Judge Annali Basson stated that while the informal rights of customary communities were previously not protected by law, they now had the right to decide what happens with their land. “As such they may not be deprived of their land without their... mg.co.za/article/2018-11-22-…
But the architect's proudest claim that the buildings absorb 30 tons of CO2 and produce 19 tons of oxygen a year edition.cnn.com/style/articl…
The launch of a new initiative to build an online repository of urban knowledge for southern Africa facebook.com/UrbanLandAfrica…
"The Constitutional Court had not even adjourned when the benches spontaneously erupted into song and dance; the sense of relief and victory was palpable as the... news24.com/Analysis/analysis…
A new US bill that takes aim at segregation, redlining, restrictive zoning, and the loss of equity by low-income homeowners theatlantic.com/politics/arc…
'The swelling urban population has been denied their basic constitutional rights by failures across the human settlements system, including the... businesslive.co.za/bd/opinio…