For families living along the park’s boundary, elephants can represent danger, loss and a bill they cannot afford to pay.
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The forced removal of communities resulted in high levels of poverty among the people who were later dumped to resettle along the park's western and southern borders
The individual struggle of black start up farmers is mirrored by a systemic shift in how development capital is managed
When politicians sip on cold bottled water while delivering Freedom Day speeches, elsewhere, women will be risking their lives collecting water from crocodile infested dams and rivers
Stretching across more than 22,000 hectares, this untamed wilderness is a feast for the eyes
Pillars of Fairtrade – wages and employment conditions – remain marked by profound inequalities.
AmaMpondomise Princess Dr Nikiwe Bam carries the weight of history on her shoulders, yet she walks firmly into the future. Born into the Mpondomise Kingdom…
An estimated 8.2 percent of the global population, or about 673 million people, experienced hunger in 2024, down from 8.5 percent in 2023 and 8.7…
"None of us was naturally living in a township. Townships were set up as labour reservoirs and we had nowhere else to go. We ended up in townships, but that's not where we belong. We did not even create them. We are kept in pockets of land, and the bigger portion was taken away."
The potential of land ownership to slam the brakes on the scourge of unemployment and deepening levels of poverty has been acknowledged by the National Development Plan (NDP), which envisaged agriculture as the sector that has the potential to create close to 1 million new jobs by 2030