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Despite a significant high court victory, the Kondo community in Chipinge District, Zimbabwe, are still sceptical about their continued access to land because their legal victory from being dispossessed of their land might be short-lived. On 23 June 2022, the High Court of Zimbabwe interdicted the Chipinge Rural District Council (CRDC) from "urbanising Kondo Communal Lands without following due process".…

The Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies  (PLAAS) is inviting you to an academic seminar titled Concentration, Competition and the Co-Evolution of Agro-food Capital in South Africa: The Case of the Milling Industry. The seminar will be facilitated by PLAAS senior researcher Dr. Farai Mtero and presented by Dr. Andrew Bowman from the University of Edinburgh, UK. His presentation…

The conference took place on 17-19 August 2022 Land Conference 2022 The Failed Promise of Tenure Security. Customary Land Rights and Dispossession. Hosted by Legal Resources Centre, LARC at University of Cape Town, PLAAS at University of Western Cape and SWOP and Wits. Conference Information Twenty-five years after South Africa’s Constitution was adopted the 18 million South Africans living in…

Dear Excellencies, the President and Prime Minister, and Honourable Ministers Violation of African Union and United Nations Standards on Land Governance We write in urgent response to the actions taken by your government at Loliondo. We write to you as African experts in the fields of land governance and tenure, natural resource management, economic development, sociology, development studies and political…