Issa G. Shivji (2009) Where is Uhuru?.
Land & land rights
RSS FeedKenya: Fears over new land deal
2009-07-04, Issue 440
Concern is mounting in Kenya that the government has leased a big slice of agricultural land to the Qatari foreign investors to produce food for export. Land rights activists are questioning the rationale of such a move, claiming the land could be us...
Africa: India cultivates Africa
2009-06-26, Issue 439
In a new wave of outsourcing, Indian firms are acquiring swathes of farmland in poor African countries to produce food meant to be exported to India. But food policy experts are lambasting the strategy as “ neo- colonialist”. They say such deals expl...
South Africa: Live or die for eNkwalini
2009-06-26, Issue 439
This film is about the eNkwalini community’s struggle for land rights. It highlights the attacks by the local neighbouring farmer who has been trying to evict them since 2005 when he started to demolish their houses. The film tells a story of a rural...
South Africa: Farmers' union critices land reform plans
2009-06-19, Issue 438
South Africa's biggest farmers' union on Friday criticised the government's plans to scrap a voluntary system of buying land from white farmers to give to poor blacks. Johannes Moller, president of farmers union AgriSA said the move to scrap the will...
Africa: Is large-scale private land acquisition beneficial to Africa?
2009-06-12, Issue 437
Over 2008 large-scale acquisitions of farmland in Africa, Latin America, Central Asia and Southeast Asia have increased. This report discusses key trends and drivers in land acquisitions, the contractual arrangements underpinning them and the way the...
Global: Human Rights principles to discipline "land grabbing"
2009-06-12, Issue 437
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Mr. Olivier De Schutter, has proposed a minimum a set of principles and measures based on human rights in the elaboration of large-scale transnational land acquisitions and leases, more comm...
Africa: Congo delays South Africa farm deal
2009-06-05, Issue 436
The Republic of Congo will delay finalising a multi-million hectare land deal with South African farmers until after a planned July presidential election, Congo Republic's minister of agriculture said. AgriSA, South Africa's main farmers union, has s...
Global: GRAIN launches new website
2009-06-05, Issue 436
GRAIN has launched a new website that offers the most comprehensive information tool on the global land grab for outsourced food production: http://farmlandgrab.org This new site is an improved version of the site ...
Global: Large-scale foreign land acquisitions could harm local people - UN
2009-05-29, Issue 435
A United Nations-commissioned study shows that land acquisitions are on the increase in Africa, Latin America, Central Asia and Southeast Asia, raising the risk that poor people will lose access to land, water, and other resources....
Africa: Africa almost giving land away, says UN
2009-05-28, Issue 435
African countries are giving away vast tracts of farmland to other countries and investors almost for free, with the only benefits consisting of vague promises of jobs and infrastructure, according to a report published on Monday. “Most of the land d...
Botswana: Government renews assault on Bushmen
2009-05-22, Issue 433
Botswana’s government sent trucks full of police and wildlife scouts into the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR) to confiscate goats from Bushmen who have returned to their ancestral homes. The Bushmen, whose goats had been confiscated in 2002 when...
Africa: African land grabbers on shaky ground
2009-05-15, Issue 432
In the past two years, various non-African countries - China, India, South Korea, Britain and the Arab Gulf states lead the pack - have been taking over huge tracts of farmland in Africa by lease or purchase, to produce food or biofuels for their own...
Burundi: A sharing approach to land disputes
2009-05-15, Issue 432
Returning to Burundi after years as a refugee in Tanzania, Jonas Saya knew it would be difficult to reclaim his land from former neighbours who had settled on it. "I wanted my children to get a home of their own," he said. Saya, 56, returned with six...
South Africa: Farm Repossessions: Consolidating an eitist class project in the rural areas?
2009-05-08, Issue 431
On 8 April, Agriculture and Land Affairs Minister Lulu Xingwana acted on her threat to reclaim redistribution farms that were not being used. In the fifth such repossession, the minister moved onto a Gauteng farm with a group of officials, reportedly...
South Africa: R93m land claim succeeds
2009-04-16, Issue 428
A Libode community rejoiced when land, from a settlement claim worth R93 million, was handed over to it by South Africa's minister of Land Affairs. The claimant community is made up of five villages – Magcakini, Tyarha, Mamfengwini, Mdlankomo and Moy...
Global: 17 April, International Day of Peasant's Struggle
2009-04-17, Issue 428
Farmers' and peasants' organisations, landless workers, rural women and youth are mobilising on April 17th for the International Day of Peasant's Struggle. This year, more than 100 actions including demonstrations, street theater, video screenings, d...
Tanzania: Minister defends land nationalization
2009-04-17, Issue 428
Zanzibar Chief Minister, Mr Shamsi Vuai Nahodha, has said that the 1964 declaration that Zanzibar land is government property has enabled the Isles to preserve land for future generations.He made the remark yesterday in the Zanzibar House of Represen...
South Africa: Help us today to fight poverty in South Africa’s slums
War on Want
2009-04-03, Issue 426
Imagine you live in a cramped shack too small for you and your family. You fear eviction by the authorities at any time. You face the threat of your home being demolished. This is a reality faced by hundreds of thousands of people in South Africa - e...
Kenya: Supporting the Kajiado Maasai to protect their land rights
Kituo Cha Sheria
2009-03-20, Issue 424
The Maasai of Kajiado, like many indigenous communities the world over, are continuously victims of historical and contemporary injustices arising from land and natural resources. This is occasioned by their unique and distinctively different livelih...
South Africa: Crisis in land reform: The way out is not complicated
2009-03-13, Issue 423
One thing that almost everyone across the political spectrum can agree on is that land reform in South Africa is in crisis. The pace of transfer is consistently slower than planned for, and much redistributed land is not being used productively. Gove...
South Africa: Government takes over farm
2009-03-13, Issue 423
The South African government took over a farm this week for the first time under a controversial new policy of taking back unproductive farms allocated to blacks as part of a land redistribution programme. Agriculture and Land Affairs Minister Lulu X...
Africa: Mauritians also competing for land in Africa
2009-03-04, Issue 422
Soaring food prices and lack of land have forced Mauritius, a net food importing country, to launch an ambitious initiative. The island state is starting to grow its food in other African states where land is lying fallow and labour is cheap. Mauriti...
Mauritians also competing for land in Africa
2009-03-06, Issue 422
Soaring food prices and lack of land have forced Mauritius, a net food importing country, to launch an ambitious initiative. The island state is starting to grow its food in other African states where land is lying fallow and labour is cheap. Mauriti...
South Africa: Idle farmers face losing land
2009-03-06, Issue 422
South Africa says it will take over any land allocated to black farmers which is not being used effectively under a land redistribution programme. The measure, which takes immediate effect, was announced by Agriculture Minister Lulu Xingwana, who war...
Botswana: 112 mining licences granted on Bushman land since evictions
2009-03-06, Issue 422
Since the Bushmen were forced off their land in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR) in 2002, the Botswana government has granted 112 mining licenses for mining companies to explore in the reserve. 16 licenses have been awarded for uranium explor...
Africa: Mauritians also competing for land in Africa
2009-02-27, Issue 421
Soaring food prices and lack of land have forced Mauritius, a net food importing country, to launch an ambitious initiative. The island state is starting to grow its food in other African states where land is lying fallow and labour is cheap. Mauriti...
Botswana: Demonstrators target Graff Diamonds' London store
2009-02-13, Issue 419
Survival’s campaign targeting Graff Diamonds over its involvement in a controversial diamond mine planned on the land of Kalahari Bushmen in Botswana has stepped up a gear. Thirty protestors gathered yesterday outside Graff’s flagship London store ho...
Africa: Land Registration in Ethiopia - New report
2009-01-29, Issue 417
This publication from the Global Land Tool Network belongs to a series of research reports examining the changing landscape of land tenure security in developing countries. The intent is to provide up-to-date information to land professionals and pol...
Tanzania: Slowing down EAC integration over land concerns?
2009-01-22, Issue 416
In its objections to proposed land and passport regulations at the latest East Africa Legislative Assembly session, Tanzania reveals a longstanding reluctance to fully commit to an accelerated regional integration in the East African Community (EAC)....
Global: Fuelling exclusion? The biofuels boom and poor people's access to land
2009-01-23, Issue 416
The global oil crisis together with the need to look for cleaner sources of energy due to massive climate change impact has boosted the use and production of ‘biofuels’ as a viable alternative to fossil fuels. This has been translated in a huge deman...
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