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Farmland restitution: an utter failure

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Monday, 2 September 2024

“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.”

Margaret Atwood

STORY OF THE DAY

Post-1996 farmland restitution projects sow a costly legacy of failure

By Tony Carnie and Naledi Sikhakhane
Nearly three decades after SA’s formal land claims process began in 1996, many farmland restitution projects are floundering or have collapsed, raising questions about the extent to which the billions of rands of state expenditure has benefited the claimant communities.

WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING
🇮🇱🇵🇸 Israel’s largest labour group is to stage a nationwide strike today, in an attempt to pressure Benjamin Netanyahu into a ceasefire agreement, and the release of the remaining hostages held by Hamas. Bloomberg reports that the strike is emblematic of a deeper anger by Israelis at Netanyahu’s handling of the war.
🇺🇦🇷🇺 A series of Russian missile strikes have injured 47, hitting a shopping mall in Kharkiv on Sunday. The attacks were preceded by Ukrainian drone launches in kind, targeting oil and power infrastructure.
🇦🇿🤨 Azerbaijan’s ruling New Azerbaijan Party, known as YAP, has won the country’s snap election. President Ilham Aliyev has extended his 20-year rule a bit longer. With no real media freedom or civil society watchdogs allowed to monitor the elections, the legitimacy of said elections is inconclusive at best.
⛳💰 Scottie Scheffler has won the Tour Championship and the 2024 FedEx Cup in one fell swoop. Scheffler ended with a massive 30-under par on Sunday. Collin Morikawa trailed by four strokes.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

📷 Con Fauconnier

“Dawn over Ngorongoro Crater.”
Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania.
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IN NUMBERS

3.5 hours

… the time difference between Afghanistan and China at their border.

FACTS OF THE DAY

Today in 2008, Google Chrome is launched.

Virtually all vertebrates yawn.

SPORTS HIGHLIGHTS
🥇 Star sprinter Mpumelelo Mhlongo won Team SA’s first medal at the 2024 Paralympics. The men’s T44 100m world record-holder stopped the clock in 11.12sec to take gold in front of a packed Stade de France on Sunday night.

⚽ After helping Liverpool administer an emphatic 3-0 victory over Manchester United, Mohamed Salah revealed that this would be his last season at Anfield.

🏉 The Springboks might face the All Blacks in Cape Town without skipper Siya Kolisi. He is almost certainly out after coach Rassie Erasmus said he had a fractured cheekbone after the 31-27 win over the All Blacks at Ellis Park.

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