In Mwanza, Tanzania, Nairukoki Leyian-Naisinyai tells me that here, “Corporations come with papers from the government claiming that they have the right to our land.” She points to the large corporations that have entered the lands of the Maasai people to mine rubies and tanzanite. The Maasai can neither assert their rights to the land […]
Tag: Land and Rural Issues
Do you know that instead of flushing urine down our toilets to wastewater treatment facilities, it could be recycled and used as fertiliser? Yes, pee or even wee as some people say, may offer a solution as a soil amendment. According Business Insider South Africa, researchers say human urine can be used as an alternative to […]
Nairobi — The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) has recovered grabbed public land valued at Sh430 million after the Environment and Land Court in Milimani ruled in its favor. The land had been reserved as an interchange for Mombasa Road and Eastern Bypass at Cabanas. According to the anti-graft body, the land in question was […]
Governments “protect” wildlife from the very people who have conserved it for centuries, while allocating mining concessions in the same areas. Outside Africa, many people’s first encounter with the continent is through images of wildlife in savannahs unfolding across their TV screens – the mortal dramas of lions chasing zebra while vast herds of wildebeest […]
And a move to depose Tauriq Jenkins as supreme high commissioner of the Goringhaicona Khoi Khoin Indigenous Traditional Council is struck from the urgent roll by High Court A contempt of court case against the company directors for proceeding with construction on the River Club development despite a High Court interdict has been postponed. Also […]
Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development Sam Dalitso Kawale has described the Land Information Management System (LMIS) the ministry has developed as timely in addressing challenges that indigenous Malawians used to face to access land in their own country. The ministry is implementing LMIS with support from the World Bank under the Agricultural Commercialization […]
Metrorail line in Langa to be vacated in November On Tuesday Minister Mbalula showed families living on railway tracks in Langa and Philippi the parcels of land in Philippi where they will be relocated. The HDA is still in negotiations to acquire land in Macassar to relocate families living on railway tracks in Khayelitsha. PRASA’s […]
Land barons reportedly linked to Zanu PF have cast a deaf ear on calls to improve service delivery by residents in the sprawling suburb of Victoria Ranch. Water supply has been erratic, illegal dumping of refuse is now rampant due to lack of refuse collection, whilst roads are still substandard. Fears of water-borne diseases are […]
Two bogus land officials appeared in court Monday charged with fraud after they duped desperate home-seekers of US$4,200 while claiming to have been sent by President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Charles Mpofu (65) and Naster Mbanje (56) appeared before Harare magistrate, Yeukai Dzuda and were remanded out of custody on free bail to September 13 for trial. […]
Mamudou Manjang, Director of the Department of Physical Planning and Housing, on Thursday clarified that the Sukuta-Salagi land is a reserved place for the government, which is now allocated for NAWEC. Manjang made this assertion at his office in Banjul, while responding to accusations and claims made by Ousman Bojang that he is the rightful […]
Images of distressed members of the Maasai community being forcibly moved from their homes, beaten and harassed by police and the army in northern Tanzania in June set social media alight with concern. Activists have since voiced their anger over land and human rights, and they have good reason to do so. The Maasai live […]
Nimba County Electoral District # 6 Representative Dorwohn Twain Gleekia is calling on the House of Representatives to invite Justice Minister Cllr. Frank Musa Dean. Rep. Gleekia wants Minister Dean to explain why the corpse of one of the citizens of Nimba, Solomon Gaye has not been buried since he was reportedly shot and killed […]
Monrovia — Solway Mining Liberia Limited while dealing with an encroachment allegation raised by steel giant ArcelorMittal, some of the beneficiaries of the intestate estate of the Late Lassana B. Dunbar, are also raising allegations that the company is illegally negotiating the lease of some 600 acres of land the company is currently occupying. The […]
LAND officers have been directed to focus on resolving land conflicts, with the Dodoma regional authorities insist that it would assess their performance basing on conflicts resolutions at their areas. Dodoma Regional Commissioner (RC), Mr Anthony Mtaka, made the directive over the weekend, when was talking to land department officers. “You should also consider the […]
Norton Town Secretary and 12 MDC-T councillors were Friday brought before the Harare magistrates courts answering charges of criminal abuse of duty for allegedly buying residential stands for just ZW$30 per square metre. Kizito Muhomba (51) and 12 Norton councillors appeared before Harare magistrate, Stenford Mambanje, and they were granted ZW$50,000 bail each. They will […]
The exchange rates of the Central Bank of Seychelles (CBS) will be applied to calculate the market value in rupees of foreign-owned properties purchased in a foreign currency after an amendment to the Immovable Property Tax Act. The amendment to the Immovable Property Tax Act 2019 was made by the National Assembly during its session […]
The HDA bought 700 hectares of land near Malmesbury just outside Cape Town eight years ago. But the agency says it was only officially appointed as implementing agent for the project in March this year. Chatsworth residents, near Malmesbury just outside Cape Town, want to take the Housing Development Agency (HDA) to court for not […]
ZANU PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu’s has lost the legal battle over ownership of Kershelmar Farm Umguza in Matebeleland North province which he had invaded. The farm is owned by owners Siphosami Malunga together with scientist and university lecturer Zephania Dhlamini and businessman Charles Moyo. The new owners have renamed it Esidakeni. Malunga had […]