Jazz in the Native Yards, a small Nonprofit Organisation established to provide spaces for jazz artists, traces its ancestral footprints to the 1960s when impromptu live jazz sessions took place every weekend in Cape Town’s townships and elsewhere. [See more under Background]

This submission is based on the report submitted by SPI to the United Nation’s Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (UN CESCR) on the implementation of UN CESCR’s recommendation to South Africa on the necessity of adopting a composite index on the cost of living. This submission reflects the agreed position of SPI and CHR on the development of a composite index on the cost of an adequate standard of living by South Africa.

South Africa's land donation policy aims to increase land ownership opportunities for underrepresented groups and to develop sustainable communities. The policy also aims to ensure that land is available for immediate use by land reform recipients.

ANC land manifesto endorsed draft for national conference, discussing proposed land policy that will devise a comprehensive land reform in post-apartheid South Africa.

The Department of Rural Development and Land Reform published the Green Paper on Land Reform in the Government Gazette on 30 September 2011. This Green Paper seeks to break away from the past, without significantly impacting on food production and security.