South Africa failed to foresee, disrupt deadly unrest, report says
Johannesburg, South AfricaReuters South Africa’s police and intelligence services failed to anticipate and disrupt days of arson and looting last year in which more than 300 people died, a report into the unrest commissioned by the President and released on Monday found. The violence was sparked by the imprisonment of former President Jacob Zuma for […]
South African law change plan to allow land expropriation fails to pass
Johannesburg, South Africa Reuters A proposal to change South Africa’s constitution to explicitly allow expropriation of land with no compensation failed to win the two-thirds of parliamentary votes that it needed on Tuesday. Lawmakers debated whether to change Section 25 of the constitution to enable authorities to seize land to address racial land inequalities left […]
Private property rights at stake in South Africa ballot
Johnannesburg, South AfricaThomson Reuters Foundation The South African Government’s promises of returning land to black South Africans taken during apartheid are under the spotlight during national elections this Wednesday, land experts said. President and African National Congress leader Cyril Ramaphosa last year launched a process to change the constitution to make explicit provision for the […]
ESSAY: FREEDOM DAY IN SOUTH AFRICA – A REMINDER OF UNFINISHED BUSINESS
In an article first published on The Conversation to mark South Africa’s Freedom Day on 27th April, HENNING MELBER, of the University of Pretoria, looks at inequality in the southernmost African nation…