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Critics warn that the Trump administration’s plan to transfer public lands could enrich wealthy developers while eliminating access for everyone else.
Public land is a promising place to build what Western cities need most and mostly don’t allow: homes and apartments for low-wage workers.
Trump gives border land to military, raising legal questions and signaling a new phase in U.S. immigration enforcement strategy.
Meet Howard Hutchinson, a private property rights activist who is quietly organizing county-level rejection of a landmark law ...
Palestinian filmmaker and activist Hamdan Ballal, who co-directed the Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," has reportedly been released after being attacked during an alleged ambush by ...
EFF leader Julius Malema says the party’s fight for land expropriation without compensation is rooted in South Africa’s colonial history... The post Malema links land expropriation fight to centuries ...
Not designed to facilitate unlawful land seizures Amongst the issues addressed was the matter of how the Expropriation Act’s ...
Spokesperson Chrispin Phiri said the delegation explained that the expropriation law's nil compensation clause was not designed to facilitate unlawful land seizures. "We believe these dialogues ...
South Africa’s government confirmed that it could expropriate land, buildings, and other assets under the Expropriation Act. Even houses and businesses are not entirely safe. In January 2025 ...
South Africa needs an effective and fair land expropriation law to help ignite economic growth and revamp its dilapidated cities, the country’s public works and infrastructure minister said. The ...
The use of investor-state arbitration as a remedy against expropriation of land without compensation is illustrated most vividly by the experience of South Africa’s northerly neighbour, Zimbabwe.
Land-based reparations are also a form of redress for the territorial theft of colonialism. Around the world, politicians tend to dismiss calls for such initiatives as wishful thinking at best and ...