South Africa's Eastern Cape province has several million hectares of open land in rural areas, not privately owned but held in trust by the state on behalf of communities. The people who live there ...

The Dwesa Water Supply Scheme, which provides free water to villages outside Willowvale, was restored this year for R3.2-million. But two villages - Lurhwayizo and Mendwane - only had water for a few ...

Despite a court order, the Amathole District Municipality has not provided water to Centane villages, they say ...

The lanky young man in skinny joggers grew up in the town of Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, but after completing school in ...

Foreign shop owners in Lusikisiki force other foreign nationals out with threats and violence, saying their home country forbids shops standing close together. A foreign national in Hombe village is ...

It is well documented that women small-scale farmers are hard done by in an environment where they farm without security of tenure, which inhibits their ability to raise finance with which to grow ...

Lecturer in the Entrepreneurship Development Unit and co-ordinator of the Student Women Economic Empowerment Programme (SWEEP), Faculty of Management Sciences, Central University of Technology It is ...