Tag: land
Land offered as compensation for seized Zimbabwe farms
Zimbabwe’s government will offer land as compensation for 800 farms it seized under its land acquisition policy since 2000, according to regulations published this...
Parliamentary committee calls for land reform law change
A South African parliamentary team recommended a constitutional amendment to make it possible for the state to expropriate land without compensation in...
Investors unnerved by South African land expropriation plans
Plans by South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) to change the constitution to allow expropriation of land without compensation unnerved investors,...
Seizing land would send SA down the wrong path – US
The United States warned South Africa seizing land without compensation risked sending the country down the wrong path, deepening a spat over...
Trump asks for study on farm killings in South Africa
US President Donald Trump asked Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to study South African "land and farm seizures" and "killing of farmers",...
Ramaphosa maintains land reform is no threat
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa told the white Afrikaner community it should not view his government's land reform plans as a threat,...
Land reform in South Africa unlikely to see constitutional change
South Africa looks likely to implement land redistribution under existing laws rather than changing the constitution following a ruling party summit, in...
Land mine kills four, injures two in Egypt
Four Egyptian workers were killed and two injured, when a land mine exploded east of Cairo in an area where government is...
Mali landmine kills five, injures 18
Five civilians were killed and a further 18 wounded in central Mali when their passenger vehicle hit a landmine, the local governor...
Call for land in Namibia to be expropriated
Namibia's president said government is considering radical land expropriation to spur the transfer of property to the country's black majority.
Speaking at Namibia's...
Zanzibar women brush up on law to keep control of land
Zuhura Salim was not entirely sure her family would ever recover a piece of land her father-in-law seized when her husband died...
Saab Rugged Vetronics System for Denel
Defence and security company Saab has signed a contract with Denel Land Systems regarding the delivery of a Rugged Vetronics System.
The contract...
Thales introduces new communications system for vehicle: Sotas Lite
Thales introduces Sotas Lite as a new member of the well-known family of Sotas vehicle systems. Sotas Lite is an innovative voice...
Denel to debut new products at DSEI
New innovations in landward defence products manufactured by Denel will debut internationally at the DSEI (Defence and Security Equipment International) exhibition in...
Bullets and buzzwords fly at Land Forces Africa 2013
As an official media partner, defenceWeb was present at the Land Forces Africa 2013 conference outside Pretoria, where we captured the bullets...
Brighter outlook expected at Land Forces Africa
Expect more optimism among especially South African delegates when the business side of the 2013 Land Forces Africa conference starts in Pretoria...
Patria delivers first batch of the armoured wheeled vehicles to Sweden
Patria has delivered the first Patria AMV armoured wheeled vehicles to the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV). An agreement signed with the...
Paramount Group to exhibit latest defence technology at IDEX 2013
Africa's largest privately owned defence and aerospace company, Paramount Group, will this week demonstrate its world-leading selection of innovative defence solutions at...
Springbuck IV variants by May 2013
A further order of 8 vehicles is secured and production is in progress. The vehicles will be built at the new DCD...
Paramount Group becomes first African defence company to launch iPad App
Paramount Group, Africa's largest privately held defence and aerospace company, has become the first defence company in Africa to provide a dedicated...
US Army to field additional ‘double-V hull’ Strykers
The US Army expects final delivery of additional Stryker double-V hull vehicles, the Stryker DVH, by the end of the year and...
World tank market worth 5 500 main battle tanks over next...
The international tank market will produce more than 5 500 main battle tanks worth at least US$24.25 billion through 2021, Forecast International...
Soldier modernisation market worth US$804 million this year
The market for soldier modernisation programmes will be worth US$804.2 million this year, according to a new report, up from an estimated...
US military tests new material able to increase the explosive power...
The US Navy has demonstrated a revolutionary material that increases the explosive force and lethality of warheads, during a test at the...
Chinese cities fret as land sales fall
Just last year, the government's land auction centre in this sprawling city buzzed with activity, with investors fighting to buy plots in...
Kenyan pastoralist clashes kill seven: officials
Fighting between pastoralists over grazing land in drought-ravaged northern Kenya killed seven people, the latest in a string of deadly clashes this...
Egypt seeks to settle land, other contract rows
The Egyptian government is seeking to settle disputes over the price of land and other issues with about 20 foreign and local...
South Africa may put limits on sale of land to foreigners
South Africa may put restrictions on the sale of land to foreigners as it aims to transfer ownership to blacks as part...
US Marines train on robotic supply truck
US Marines will learn how to control the TerraMax unmanned truck in a test area east of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, this week as...
Land issues dog East Africa
Questions surrounding land remain divisive in spite of the integration advances made by Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda in forming the...
