11 March 2022
Eswatini, formerly known as Swaziland, is a “ticking time bomb”, according to Hlobi Dlamini, a gender and women’s rights advocate from that country. Reflecting on the state of Eswatini in the wake of a June 2021 uprising in pursuit of democracy and human rights, Dlamini said it is only a matter of…
11 November 2021
The issue of land, especially its redistribution, remains contentious in South Africa 27 years after the formal end of apartheid. Land redistribution was promised at the end of apartheid. The failure of the African National Congress (ANC) government to do so is emblematic of its failure to…
20 October 2021
With a total of 65 participants (37% women) from 14 countries (Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea Bissau, Kenya, Malawi, Niger, Pakistan, Sudan and Uganda) the 10th and last Capitalization Meeting of the EU Land Governance Transversal Project, was virtually…
Value: $120,000.00
Donors: German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
Value: $1,903,000.00
Donors: European Union
Value: $350,000.00
Donors: International Fund for Agricultural Development
Value: $2,300,000.00
Donors: International Fund for Agricultural Development
Value: $2,400,000.00
Donors: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Over half of ever-widowed women in Swaziland reported that they had been dispossessed of their property
6 August 2021
By Sean Johnson, land administration specialist at COWI, Swaziland * This piece was originally published as part of the online discussion on customary law in Southern Africa Institutions – societal behaviour, norms, rules, laws, and structures – emerge, develop, and are shaped by the interaction of…
