The period November to April is generally regarded as the fire season in the Western Cape. Fires cause devastation and cost the economy millions each year.

The Government is embarking on significant new initiatives to advance land reform.

When the National Environmental Management: Waste Act came into operation, the operation Part 8 of Chapter 4 was deferred to a later date.

The African National Congress ("ANC") held its first ever Land Summit ("Summit") over the weekend of 19 and 20 May 2018.

The Africa Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation Project (AfrIPI) is an international cooperation project funded and directed by the European Union (EU)...

A distinction must be drawn between trespassers and unlawful occupiers. Trespassers are persons that have accessed land without the permission of the land owner or person in control of the land.

Establishing a right to use water is one matter, but establishing precisely how much water one is entitled to is another.

There has been much discussion, debate and commentary over the past couple of months on the motion adopted by the South African Parliament on 27 February 2018, in relation to the expropriation of land without the payment of compensation.

On 25 August 2023, the Minister for Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development (DALRRD) in South Africa issued amended regulations to the Fertilizer, Farm Feeds, Agricultural Remedies and Stock Remedies Act, 1947.

During his maiden State of the Nation address, South Africa's president, Cyril Ramaphosa, stated that the implementation of a land redistribution programme involving expropriation without compensation is on the ruling party's agenda.

On 31 August 2011, the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform tabled the Green Paper on Land Reform.

The purchase and sale of property in South Africa is governed in terms of our common law.

Title to real property in South Africa vests in the landowner and not the state, and there is a comprehensive legal framework for the ownership and transfer or real estate, which is established under statute.

South Africa has an efficient system of registration of title to land, based on a land survey system.

The notes below are summaries of the most relevant of the practical provisions for estate agents and other property practitioners.