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Dr Rick de Satgé curating land related content across the African continent focusing on land policy and law, land reform, land tenure, land rights, conflict and mining, natural resource management, food security, urbanisation and more.
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November 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
knowledgebase.land is back after a technical makeover. Lots of new content going up daily. Your window into land related issues in Southern, Eastern and Central Africa
A three-year study by Mining Affected Communities in Action (MACUA) has found that 11 mining companies in South Africa have failed to meet the promises they made to their communities.
groundup.org.za/article/mini...
groundup.org.za/article/mini...
Mining companies are breaking their promises - and the state is doing nothing about it
MACUA report finds mining companies are not sticking to their Social and Labour Plans
groundup.org.za
May 16, 2025 at 9:43 AM
A three-year study by Mining Affected Communities in Action (MACUA) has found that 11 mining companies in South Africa have failed to meet the promises they made to their communities.
groundup.org.za/article/mini...
groundup.org.za/article/mini...
An ode to the Demographic and Health Survey Program www.brookings.edu/articles/an-...
An ode to the Demographic and Health Survey Program
Caren Grown reflects on the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) Program and its 40-plus years of impact.
www.brookings.edu
May 14, 2025 at 8:20 AM
An ode to the Demographic and Health Survey Program www.brookings.edu/articles/an-...
An essential watch with a clear action agenda www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOo...
This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like | Carole Cadwalladr | TED
YouTube video by TED
www.youtube.com
April 14, 2025 at 5:50 PM
An essential watch with a clear action agenda www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOo...
Riason Naidoo interviews 90-year-old Albie Sachs
africasacountry.com/2025/04/what...
africasacountry.com/2025/04/what...
What comes after liberation?
In this wide-ranging conversation, the freedom fighter and former Constitutional Court justice Albie Sachs reflects on law, liberation, and the unfinished work of building a just South Africa.
africasacountry.com
April 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Riason Naidoo interviews 90-year-old Albie Sachs
africasacountry.com/2025/04/what...
africasacountry.com/2025/04/what...
Mining in Southern Africa. Key issues and trends Feb - March 2025
landportal.org/library/reso...
landportal.org/library/reso...
KBL Spotlight on mining in Southern Africa Feb-March 2025 | Land Portal
Our mission is to nurture a growing information ecosystem on land governance to inform and improve decision-making, policy and practice at all levels.
landportal.org
April 2, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Mining in Southern Africa. Key issues and trends Feb - March 2025
landportal.org/library/reso...
landportal.org/library/reso...
South Africa land expropriation? Facts and fantasies. News and analysis curated on knowledgebase.land/weekly-overv...
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The (manufactured) controversy over South Africa’s Expropriation Act | Land Portal
Our mission is to nurture a growing information ecosystem on land governance to inform and improve decision-making, policy and practice at all levels.
landportal.org
April 2, 2025 at 12:23 PM
South Africa land expropriation? Facts and fantasies. News and analysis curated on knowledgebase.land/weekly-overv...
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Timothy Snyder: Twenty lessons from On Tyranny. Lessons for America. And everywhere else across the globe. snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
snyder.substack.com
March 31, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Timothy Snyder: Twenty lessons from On Tyranny. Lessons for America. And everywhere else across the globe. snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
"War and the struggle for resources lead to the destruction of ecosystems, the inability to produce food, food insecurity, hunger and migration for subsistence." www.slowfood.com/blog-and-new...
War and Resource Grabbing, Two Sides of the Same Violence - Slow Food
The battle for resources draws the lines of world geopolitics, revealing the hypocrisy of so many ideologically vague motivations.
www.slowfood.com
March 28, 2025 at 2:55 PM
"War and the struggle for resources lead to the destruction of ecosystems, the inability to produce food, food insecurity, hunger and migration for subsistence." www.slowfood.com/blog-and-new...
Syria’s decade-long conflict has ravaged its natural landscape, observes independent environmental journalist Peter Schwartzstein. “Almost no part of the environment has escaped the negative effects of hostilities. theecologist.org/2025/mar/21/...
Cultivating farmland after the bombs
Syria dispatch: Finding life and peace amid a devastated land following the fall of dictator Bashar al-Assad.
theecologist.org
March 28, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Syria’s decade-long conflict has ravaged its natural landscape, observes independent environmental journalist Peter Schwartzstein. “Almost no part of the environment has escaped the negative effects of hostilities. theecologist.org/2025/mar/21/...
A study from the University of Cape Town bit.ly/4loFuqX indicates that withdrawing USAID Pepfar support in South Africa without effectively transitioning to supported services will lead to an estimated 601,000 HIV-related deaths and 501,000 new infections in the next 10 years.
Turn PEPFAR funding freeze crisis into opportunity
The PEPFAR funding freeze has impacted millions of South Africans living with HIV.
bit.ly
March 28, 2025 at 9:07 AM
A study from the University of Cape Town bit.ly/4loFuqX indicates that withdrawing USAID Pepfar support in South Africa without effectively transitioning to supported services will lead to an estimated 601,000 HIV-related deaths and 501,000 new infections in the next 10 years.
1984+41: 2+2=5 open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
2+2=5
"America destroys one of its own symbols," by Stanislav Aseyev
open.substack.com
March 25, 2025 at 8:26 AM
1984+41: 2+2=5 open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
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Make no mistake: this is eugenics on a global scale www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
US shutdown of HIV/Aids funding ‘could lead to 500,000 deaths in South Africa’
Cuts could result in 500,000 deaths over the next 10 years in the country, research suggests
www.theguardian.com
March 2, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Make no mistake: this is eugenics on a global scale www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
"In Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo , the phrase débrouillez-vous (fend for yourself) is considered such an important life lesson that the city’s inhabitants refer to it as ‘article 15’ – an imaginary addition to the Congolese constitution"
www.iied.org/extreme-ineq...
www.iied.org/extreme-ineq...
Extreme inequality and housing injustice in the DRC: rebuilding ‘Kinshasa la Belle’
Past policies and programmes in the city of Kinshasa have led to little or no improvement in housing provision and affordability. A new report reveals that proposed policy approaches risk perpetuating...
www.iied.org
February 25, 2025 at 11:00 AM
"In Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo , the phrase débrouillez-vous (fend for yourself) is considered such an important life lesson that the city’s inhabitants refer to it as ‘article 15’ – an imaginary addition to the Congolese constitution"
www.iied.org/extreme-ineq...
www.iied.org/extreme-ineq...
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South Africa’s icebreaker ship, the SA Agulhas II, returned to Cape Town on Monday after taking supplies and a relief crew to South Africa’s Antarctic base, but the results the scientists on board brought back are alarming.
Read groundup.org.za/article/iceb... by Steve Kretzmann
Read groundup.org.za/article/iceb... by Steve Kretzmann
Icebreaker returns from Antarctica with alarming news
Scientists aboard the SA Agulhas II have been tracking ocean health
groundup.org.za
February 21, 2025 at 7:03 AM
South Africa’s icebreaker ship, the SA Agulhas II, returned to Cape Town on Monday after taking supplies and a relief crew to South Africa’s Antarctic base, but the results the scientists on board brought back are alarming.
Read groundup.org.za/article/iceb... by Steve Kretzmann
Read groundup.org.za/article/iceb... by Steve Kretzmann
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KZN activist shot dead: Vusi Banda – Mondlo Township Civic Organisation chairperson – was murdered on Thursday
Read groundup.org.za/article/kzn-... by Bongane Motaung
Read groundup.org.za/article/kzn-... by Bongane Motaung
KZN activist shot dead
Vusi Banda – Mondlo Township Civic Organisation chairperson – was murdered on Thursday
groundup.org.za
February 21, 2025 at 9:49 AM
KZN activist shot dead: Vusi Banda – Mondlo Township Civic Organisation chairperson – was murdered on Thursday
Read groundup.org.za/article/kzn-... by Bongane Motaung
Read groundup.org.za/article/kzn-... by Bongane Motaung
Ben Cousins Post-apartheid land reform has misfired badly. It is not surprising that this year’s State of the Nation Address did not say a single word about land.
#SouthAfrica #Expropriation #Landreform
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
#SouthAfrica #Expropriation #Landreform
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
Expropriation and class bias — the great unmentionable
Evidence from both international experience and South African research suggests that a smallholder-focused land redistribution policy could generate as many as a million new jobs.
www.dailymaverick.co.za
February 21, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Ben Cousins Post-apartheid land reform has misfired badly. It is not surprising that this year’s State of the Nation Address did not say a single word about land.
#SouthAfrica #Expropriation #Landreform
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
#SouthAfrica #Expropriation #Landreform
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
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Carbon offsets are one of the spaces where big ag and big oil reveal their strategy to continue business as usual while finding more mechanisms to increase their profits. EG cover crops offsets often require fossil fuel use but that isn’t counted b/c the offsets are based on soil organic carbon.
Shell was comfortably the world's largest purchaser of carbon offsets in 2024.
carbonmarketwatch.org/2025/02/12/b...
carbonmarketwatch.org/2025/02/12/b...
Behind the green curtain: big oil and the voluntary carbon market - Carbon Market Watch
Shell was the world’s largest user of carbon credits in 2024, a year in which fossil fuel companies dominated the voluntary carbon market. This allows Shell was the world’s largest user of carbon cred...
carbonmarketwatch.org
February 13, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Carbon offsets are one of the spaces where big ag and big oil reveal their strategy to continue business as usual while finding more mechanisms to increase their profits. EG cover crops offsets often require fossil fuel use but that isn’t counted b/c the offsets are based on soil organic carbon.
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Hi @theguardian.com -- I think you mean 'continuing to burn fossil fuels' or 'extractive, carbon-intensive economies', or maybe just 'first-world economies', rather than 'melting glaciers'
February 19, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Hi @theguardian.com -- I think you mean 'continuing to burn fossil fuels' or 'extractive, carbon-intensive economies', or maybe just 'first-world economies', rather than 'melting glaciers'
William Shoki: The global right—and Musk in particular—have seized on land reform as a vehicle for their broader ideological agenda:
africasacountry.com/2025/02/elon...
africasacountry.com/2025/02/elon...
Elon Musk’s South African fantasy
Musk’s outrage over land reform in South Africa isn’t about fairness—it’s about fueling right-wing paranoia and preserving economic privilege.
africasacountry.com
February 20, 2025 at 1:13 PM
William Shoki: The global right—and Musk in particular—have seized on land reform as a vehicle for their broader ideological agenda:
africasacountry.com/2025/02/elon...
africasacountry.com/2025/02/elon...
The mounting water crisis in South Africa.
theconversation.com/south-africa...
theconversation.com/south-africa...
South Africa has failed to deliver access to enough water for millions – a new approach is needed
In South Africa, a household gets 6,000 litres of free water a month. For a family of eight, this falls below the global minimum for health and hygiene.
theconversation.com
February 20, 2025 at 12:58 PM
The mounting water crisis in South Africa.
theconversation.com/south-africa...
theconversation.com/south-africa...
Cherly Walker, researcher and former land claims commissioner counters active disinformation concerning the South African land question
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
Cutting through the maze of disinformation and outright lies around land in SA
Let’s be clear: there is no provision in our constitutional order for the arbitrary confiscation of white-owned land, nor any serious suggestion that the current government plans to pursue such a stra...
www.dailymaverick.co.za
February 20, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Cherly Walker, researcher and former land claims commissioner counters active disinformation concerning the South African land question
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
Women's land rights, climate change, floods and vulnerability dialogue.earth/en/climate/a...
Around Burundi’s largest lake, women and children bear the brunt of floods
Experts say more must be done to build resilience to landslides and other climate-related disasters
dialogue.earth
February 20, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Women's land rights, climate change, floods and vulnerability dialogue.earth/en/climate/a...
Essential reading! This four part blog by Laura Czerniewicz takes you on a deep dive into the ills of the Zuckerberg metaverse and how WhatsApp contributes to its toxicity. czernie.weebly.com/blog/avoidin...
Avoiding Whatsapp as a political act
This is the first part of a four-parter. Part Two on what’s wrong with Meta is here . Part Three on how metadata really matters is here . Part Four on how to avoid Whatsapp is here .
czernie.weebly.com
February 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Essential reading! This four part blog by Laura Czerniewicz takes you on a deep dive into the ills of the Zuckerberg metaverse and how WhatsApp contributes to its toxicity. czernie.weebly.com/blog/avoidin...