Johannesburg – Thomas Piketty, the French economist specialising in wealth and inequality, said a lack of large-scale, forced land redistribution in South Africa from the rich to the poor has fuelled one of the world’s widest income gaps. Read More

Johannesburg – Government needs to do less talking and more doing when it comes to supporting emerging black farmers, a young vegetable farmer from Krugersdorp told Gauteng Premier David Makhura on Thursday. Read More

Ernest Pringle, head of Agri SA’s Development Council and outgoing president of Agri Eastern Cape, says that farmers accept land reform to be a prime concern, but judging by the national budget, government does not. (25 Sept 2015) Read more

A lawyer for evicted white Zimbabwean farmers has described the auctioning off of a Zimbabwe government-owned property in South Africa this week as a “symbolic victory”. (25 Sept 2015) Read More

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s government has reportedly indicated, for the first time, that it may hand back land to some white farmers whose farms were forcibly taken away from them during the height of the country’s controversial land reform programme. This comes a decade and a half after the Zimbabwean government seized large swaths of […]

The Zimbabwe government took a major step towards eliminating the once-thriving white ­commercial farming sector this week by gazetting 23 of the remaining 300 farms owned by white Zimbabweans for ­expropriation. The planned seizures in the Matabeleland North and South provinces were announced despite an admission by Robert Mugabe’s ruling Zanu-PF party that it had […]

The Khaya Lam project is a living example of a truth expressed by Sir John Templeton: “Property rights are essential for human rights.” This project is unlocking freedoms that have been denied to black South Africans for more than a century. The Khaya Lam project has already provided resources to carry out the conversion of […]