bill-south – The Mail & Guardian

/ 6 March 2008

Cabinet approves land expropriation Bill

South Africa’s Cabinet has approved a Bill that would speed up its land reform programme aimed at transferring 30% of farmland to black ownership by 2014, a government spokesperson said on Thursday. An existing land expropriation act has failed to make significant inroads into land redistribution.

By Wendell Roelf

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/ 5 September 2007

Urgent talks to take place on Publications Bill

South Africa’s editors and the government’s legal team will meet ”as a matter of urgency” over concerns about the Film and Publication Bill. This was announced in a statement jointly issued by the government and the South African National Editors’ Forum after talks at Tuynhuys in Cape Town on Wednesday.

By Staff Reporter