Tenure Security News Today

The Dlaminis have been on Volksrust farm near Glencoe for more than 30 years, but they fear for the future and the fate of their family burial grounds as rumours swirl that their land will soon be sold off.

Community activists also urged the government to pass an amended land bill to give them rights to secure their land.

Citizens of rural communities across the country who are fighting for their land rights are outraged at the government’s treatment of them, likening it to apartheid and colonialism.

Land activists called on lawyers and specifically law societies in provinces as well as Legal Aid SA to take up matters that affect land rights.

Community rights according to the Communal Land Rights Bill will always be subservient to the power of traditional leaders, a land rights conference hears.

A land conference has been told how a mining company removed people from their land without consultation — to a place where there is continual blasting, which causes serious health problems. A land conference has been told how a mining company removed people from their land without consultati...