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INGONYAMA TRUST & ROYAL BAFOKENG These trusts need to be abolished. They serve greedy hyenas who live at expense of black people. What's worse is that the Owners aren't elected, therefore we cannot remove them. Look at the stretch of Land owned by one person: AmaZulu King!

The "market" is increasingly represented as the solution to contemporary environmental problems and the challenges of "sustainable development". #landgovernance #climatecrisis

Dr Murombedzi says to mitigate some of these issues, we need more studies that demonstrate the extent to which climate impacts are undermining tenure security and displacing people – and to clarify what this should mean for climate policy. #climatecrisis #landgovernance

What is "green grabbing"? I will be chatting with Lester Kiewit on CapeTalk on 567AM radio at 07h20 this morning about our PLAAS findings from research about what happens when nature conservation trumps social justice. player.listenlive.co/47541 UWC

Why are so many South Africans opting for money over land? Ruth Hall will be on SAfmRadio 📻 tomorrow morning at 7:20 to explain government's #landredistribution wins and losses. Listen live: listen.safm.co.za/listensafm/

PLAAS Ruth Hall SAfmRadio 📻 It is a narrative pushed by government officials... Land claimans are not opting for money willingly, they are being discouraged against taking land restoration because it "takes longer"

The open access version of my book, Decolonizing African Agriculture, is out agendapub.com/page/detail/de…. In N America, one may pre-order paperback copies here cup.columbia.edu/book/decoloniz… Tom Philpott Food Tank Mark Bittman The Conversation Africa Ruth Hall Raj Patel - also rajpatel.bsky.social Michael Fakhri La Via Campesina (Official EN)

This #WorldFoodDay, join us for a seminal NELGA Masterclass with Prof Mamadou Göita of IPES-Food on changing food systems and its effect on land governance. AUDA-NEPAD AUC CAADP African Development Bank Group ECA ECOWAS Agriculture SADC Secretariat Register: shorturl.at/YHKgs #WFD2024

We are live - but on a new link? Follow the conversation here: youtube.com/live/wRrHfHLwF…

PUBLIC TALK: With China's expanding role in the global economy, some American elites have come to view China as the US's "one peer competitor" and a threat to its hegemony. Their mobilisation in response to this perception includes a claim that China practices colonialism or

📢📢📢Masterclass on Mining, Extractivism, and Land Rights in Africa 📷 Thursday 5 December, 10:00-13:00 SAST 📷Register and join: tinyurl.com/2s3tnzcc This is a masterclass of the Network of Excellence on Land Governance in Africa NELGA convened by PLAAS UWC

📢 Professor post has been advertised, to join our team at the Institute for Poverty, Land & Agrarian Studies PLAAS at University of the Western Cape UWC in Cape Town. Deadline 10th January. Please share far & wide. See advert here: uwc.hua.hrsmart.com/hr/ats/Posting…

📢 NEWS: New law effective today South Africa finally has a new Expropriarion Act that allows the government to take private property to redistribute it - even with little or no compensarion. Why, and how can or should this power be used? I will be on bsky.app/profile/ruthha…

📢*#Expropriation as a Tool for #LandJustice* Public dialogue with Minister of Land Reform & Rural Development President M. Nyhontso, and students, workers, academics and activists. 🗓️11 March @ 12.00-14.00 Jakes Gerwel Hall UWC Hosted by PLAAS Tshisimani Spread the news.