Ruth Hall

land, food, agriculture, and all things political in South Africa... and anywhere else

[Ruth Hall @RuthHallPLAAS]

📢Hot off the press ahead of the global #LandGrabbing2024 conference next week in Bogota, Colombia

"Global land deals: what has been done, what has changed, and what's next?"

@Peasant_Journal @IanScoones @TNInstitute @via_campesina @PLAASuwc @UWConline
https://t.co/FOHHcMG70M

[PLAAS @PLAASuwc]

#NewBook Alert! 📚

Redistributive Land Reform: Challenging Inequality in the 21st Century, edited by @IanScoones, Saturnino M. Borras, @RuthHallPLAAS, and Wendy Wolford, published by @BloomsburyBooks on February 4, 2027.

Experts from across four continents - Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Europe 🌍 explore research and case studies on inequality and redistributive land reform.

🔗 Learn more: https://t.co/Gc3jqkfoEg

📩 Sign up to be the first to know about updates: https://t.co/pq4F7ItknC

[Ruth Hall @RuthHallPLAAS]

📢Join us for this important seminar on The Green Transition in Africa and Beyond: A Tale of Extractivism, Fossil Capitalism and Green Neocolonialism.

Monday 14 September
13.00-14.00 SA time
In person at PLAAS in Cape Town
Or join via Zoom

https://t.co/X0DbqdTQXB

[PLAAS @PLAASuwc]

Seminar 📢

Human-made climate change undermines the ecological and socio-economic basis of African life. Addressing this global climate crisis requires a rapid and drastic reduction of greenhouse-gas emissions. But while a transition towards renewable energies has become inevitable, justice has not.

Dr Hamza Hamouchene delivers on Monday this seminar challenging the deceptive narrative that obfuscates questions of ownership and sovereignty, and that masks ongoing global relations of neo-colonial domination.

Monday, 14 September 2026
13:00 to 14:00 SAST
PLAAS seminar room, or online
Register on zoom: https://t.co/ZQRBUfJayA
Read the abstract: https://t.co/eGz6Saqp7F

[Martha Carvajalino @MCarvajalinoV]

Memorias de una contra reforma agraria. Una lógica de concentración, acaparamiento y despojo que bloqueó el desarrollo de la producción agraria y el abastecimiento de alimentos.

[Zanyiwe @SiphesihleMbh11]

Read my opinion on @dailymaverick

[Ruth Hall @RuthHallPLAAS]

I'm looking forward to working with 2 bright scholars from East Africa on their cutting-edge PhD topics on digital tech in agriculture. Please share this funded opportunity with those who would like to join our research group. #PhD #scholarship

[PLAAS @PLAASuwc]

🇰🇪🇹🇿 We're looking for PhD candidates to apply for two "Digital Agrarian Futures" scholarships. If you have the right doctoral topic and can conduct long-term ethnographic research, we want to hear from you.
Read more and apply here: https://t.co/VLKeJyEwj9

[Brett Herron 🇿🇦🍉 @brettherron]

#Tafelberg #ConCourt #SpatialJustice
@ConCourtSA:

Unanimous judgment:
@CityofCT & @WesternCapeGov

City of Cape Town remains divided. The matter is about full access to the City about “Right to the City”.

Location is not a peripheral to housing access.
State bears a burden to align with Constitutional transformation.

City had failed to provide any housing in well located areas.
No justification for City’s policies lacking geographical location considerations.

No justification for failing to provide housing in Sea Point.

City cannot use land value as a basis for denying access to housing.

(Helen Zille told me “using high value land for affordable housing was over subsidizing the poor”)

City and Province has failed in their constitutional duties to provide well located affordable housing and to address spatial apartheid.

VICTORY!

Disposal of Tafelberg School site by WC Government was unlawful.

@ReclaimCT @NdifunaUkwazi 👏👏👏

[Ruth Hall @RuthHallPLAAS]

Yes!

The Constitutional Court @ConCourtSA confirms that the state may not sell off its well-located land without considering its use for affordable housing.

A progressive judgement.

End spatial apartheid.

Congrats to @ReclaimCT & @NdifunaUkwazi

https://t.co/6Q1kqQkQAg

[Ruth Hall @RuthHallPLAAS]

This judgement due out tomorrow could be the most important precedent yet on the right of access to land on an equitable basis.

Follow @NdifunaUkwazi, @ReclaimCT and @PLAASuwc among others for response after 10am on Thursday.

[Ruth Hall @RuthHallPLAAS]

This judgement due out tomorrow could be the most important precedent yet on the right of access to land on an equitable basis.

Follow @NdifunaUkwazi, @ReclaimCT and @PLAASuwc among others for response after 10am on Thursday.

[Constitutional Court @ConCourtSA]

(1/6) Judgment to be handed down on Thursday, 2 July 2026 at 10h00: Is the City of Cape Town and the Western Cape Province required to consider the location of social housing with regard to their obligations in sections 25(5), 26(1) and 26(2) of the Constitution?

[Phindile Kunene🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩 @kunenephindz]

"First they will come for the migrants from Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Malawi. Next they will come for Xitsonga, Tshivenda, siSwati and isiNdebele speaking South Africans. Ethnic violence always starts with the outsider and ends with the minority at home."

https://t.co/yGJw6O64Zc

[My Kheswa 🇵🇸 @ThandoAfrika]

March and March has delivered nothing but suffering ‐ via @groundup_news https://t.co/3lzYx6ltxX

[Bocasho Braaf @bocasho_braaf]

It's not about crime or legal status. It's a chauvinist, fascist movement.

[SABC News @SABCNews]

JUNE 30 PROTESTS | Some residents in Ekurhuleni on Gauteng's East Rand are counting the cost after their houses were vandalised, they were accused of being foreign nationals and items were also stolen during protests against undocumented immigration. SABC News reporter Neria Hlakotsa has more.

[Elon's Drunk Uncle @elonsdruncle]

@IECSouthAfrica political parties are campaigning for the local government elections on the basis of xenophobia as their campaign hook. Is this okay with you? Are you okay with hate as a campaign strategy? #NoToHate #30June #immigrants

[Тania Melnyczuk @ekverstania]

A peaceful march doesn't need weapons. GSAX has called for the leaders of these marchers to be arrested.

[#FightInequality @FightInequality]

Unite, from Soweto to the Sahara - The real culprits that South Africans and Africans must unite against are billionaires, corporations and ruling elites — the 1% who hoard wealth while the 99% suffer. https://t.co/gWMA4cRTnC
#wontbemarching #30june

[Тania Melnyczuk @ekverstania]

Wow, I did not see THIS connection before: South Africa’s anti-migrant campaigns, Princy Mthombeni and the Putin connection:

https://t.co/ad4lM2MiMR #Xenophobia #RussiaIsNotOurFriend

[Nicole Fritz @Nicole_Fritz]

Social media hate & incitement have real world consequences, translating into violence & brutality.
Those doing so often hide behind secretive accounts. By reporting threats of violence & incitement, there’s a greater chance those hiding will be unmasked. Report to @Real411orgza

[Elon's Drunk Uncle @elonsdruncle]

Not me, getting on the phone to my nephew @elonmusk to ask him why he's allowing bot networks and trolls on X? #wontbemarching #30june

[Nolwazi Tusini @NolwAzi_Tusini]

Jacinta must start by opening up March and March’s books and telling us who funds them before she makes noise about other NGOs - many of whom declare their funding by the way.
There is a reason March and March is targeting civil society institutions. Bafuna ukuliqeda lelizwe.

[Elon's Drunk Uncle @elonsdruncle]

Misdirected Anger Movement is wasting R600 million in taxpayer money for their vigilante imposed deadline of #30june. Myself and @ElonsTipsyAunty #wontbemarching Here's what we will be doing: continuing with activism to fix access to water and services.