Some argue it will bring economic opportunities while others worry it will destroy their way of life Sigidi village is not easy to access. The simplest way to get there is to avoid the long, barely navigable access road, and to cut through the Wild Coast Sun casino, on the border between the Eastern Cape […]
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These food heroes are guardians of their villages’ food security “Sometimes we are faced with droughts and other times we have floods,” says Anita António Candeeiro, leader of a women’s group of smallholder farmers in Chemba, Mozambique. Aside from losing food and income sources, these disasters also often wipe out fields, making it necessary for […]
Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) boss Gatsha Mazithulela tried with no success to force his way into the ownership structure of Kershelmar Farm in Nyamandlovu, Matabeleland North, jointly owned by OSISA director Siphosami Malunga and two partners. When this failed, Mazithulela, a CIO deputy director-general, threatened the shareholders the government would forcibly seize the thriving farming […]
The feud between Mashonaland Central Provincial Minister Monica Mavhunga and the former First Lady, Grace Mugabe’s sister, Rosemary Chidhakwa has escalated after the minister counter-sued the latter at the High Court. Chidhakwa was the first to approach the courts recently accusing Mavhunga, and her workers of invading her farm and disrupting winter wheat cropping currently […]
THE ruling Zanu PF party denies it has offered the 14 Zimbabweans deported from the United Kingdom last Thursday access to land for farming. However, the government said it would assist the 14 who had served lengthy jail terms in the UK, to rehabilitate, and integrate in local communities they would choose to stay. Zanu […]
Government has secured US$1 million that will go towards the payment of compensation to white former farm owners as agreed in the Global Compensation Deed signed last year. Government signed the GCD with the former farmers whose land was gazetted for resettlement of landless indigenous Zimbabwean. In a statement this morning, Finance and Economic Development […]
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Zimbabwe: White Farmer ‘Invades’ Land
A land reform programme beneficiary in Marondera has accused a white farmer of invading his land and has appealed to authorities to resolve the matter. The affected farmer, Mr Livison Manjengwa, said his farm had been invaded by his neighbour, Mr Rodney James Cormac, who had started preparing part of the land for agricultural activities. […]
MDC Alliance deputy leader Tendai Biti says former president Robert Mugabe is surely turning in his grave after his successor Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration resorted to reverse the land reform programme. Biti was speaking during an online address entitled “Unpacking the pandemic of corruption in Zimbabwe.” “Land has become a major commanding height of corruption, both […]
THE bill to prohibit open grazing and related matters in Delta State, Wednesday, passed second reading on the floor of the State House of Assembly. The bill, Delta State Livestock Breeding, Rearing and Marketing Regulation, which is being sponsored by the member representing Ughelli South Constituency in the House, Mr Reuben Izeze and 24 other […]
A potent mix of bad politics, land grievances, recurring droughts and unresolved historical land injustices are to blame for incessant invasions of ranches and private properties in Laikipia. The cocktail of the triggers of conflicts in the region has over time made the invasions a hard nut to crack, with the government always at a […]
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Benue State on Monday lampooned the Minister of Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Affairs, Senator George Akume, for allegedly describing those in support of the ban on open grazing as “out of their minds.” Akume was alleged by the PDP to have criticised the state government for enacting the anti-open […]
Land governance: safeguarding art, culture and heritage to secure the Africa We Want What: 2021 Conference on Land Policy in Africa Who: African Land Policy Centre (ALPC), When: 2- 4 November 2021; 09:00 to 17:00 GMT+2 Where: Kigali, Rwanda; Virtual The African Land Policy Centre (ALPC) will hold its Land Policy in Africa Conference on […]
Rural activists say that the Ingonyama Trust judgment reveals a culture of exploitation of the most vulnerable by traditional leadership and the government, to benefit elites. On Tuesday, the Land and Accountability Research Centre (Larc) hosted a webinar to unpack what the Ingonyama Trust judgment’s impact would be on land tenure rights. The chief researcher […]
Perturbed by incessant complaints about Nigerian Army (NA) personnel getting involved in land- related disputes, the 81 Division recently inaugurated a standing committee to tackle such issues. The committee headed by 81 Division Garrison Commander, Brigadier General NMS Najidada also has the division’s Provost, Colonel AC Chukwuma, Major AA Jimoh; Captain N Maigari and Lt. […]
George Okoh Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has said that the state will reject the planned review of the Land Use Act by the federal government with vehemence, alleging that the plot is meant to grab land for open grazing, cattle routes and grazing reserves. Ortom spoke yesterday in Makurdi, the state capital, while […]
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Uganda: Reality of Land Leases
Whenever the word ‘lease’ is mentioned, three things must come to mind; periodic holding, terms and conditions, and reversionary interests. These features are indispensable to this tenure system because by definition, it is the form of land holding that affords exclusive ownership to be granted by an owner of land, whom we call “the lessor” […]
A fresh row is brewing in Wajir County following plans by the National Lands Commission (NLC) to allocate a prime plot to a private firm in a process locals claim is shrouded in secrecy. Residents and local leaders have vowed to challenge the move, saying neither NLC nor the county government has the powers to […]
A Chinese businessman has dragged Home Affairs minister, Kazembe Kazembe to court after the top government official allegedly failed to protect him and his land from suspected war veterans who invaded the property in 2019. The businessman, Xifeng Li is suing the minister jointly with Police Commissioner General Godwin Matanga, Officer Commanding Harare province, Officer […]