iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Knowledgebase.Land @africaland.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

knowledgebase.land is back after a technical makeover. Lots of new content going up daily. Your window into land related issues in Southern, Eastern and Central Africa

knowledgebase.land

Home - Knowledge base land

010

Knowledgebase.Land @africaland.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

A three-year study by Mining Affected Communities in Action (MACUA) has found that 11 mining companies in South Africa have failed to meet the promises they made to their communities. groundup.org.za/article/mini...

groundup.org.za

Mining companies are breaking their promises - and the state is doing nothing about it

MACUA report finds mining companies are not sticking to their Social and Labour Plans

010

Knowledgebase.Land @africaland.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Timothy Snyder: Twenty lessons from On Tyranny. Lessons for America. And everywhere else across the globe. snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

snyder.substack.com

Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow

Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

000

Knowledgebase.Land @africaland.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

"War and the struggle for resources lead to the destruction of ecosystems, the inability to produce food, food insecurity, hunger and migration for subsistence." www.slowfood.com/blog-and-new...

slowfood.com

War and Resource Grabbing, Two Sides of the Same Violence - Slow Food

The battle for resources draws the lines of world geopolitics, revealing the hypocrisy of so many ideologically vague motivations.

000

Knowledgebase.Land @africaland.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Syria’s decade-long conflict has ravaged its natural landscape, observes independent environmental journalist Peter Schwartzstein. “Almost no part of the environment has escaped the negative effects of hostilities. theecologist.org/2025/mar/21/...

theecologist.org

Cultivating farmland after the bombs

Syria dispatch: Finding life and peace amid a devastated land following the fall of dictator Bashar al-Assad.

000

Knowledgebase.Land @africaland.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

A study from the University of Cape Town bit.ly/4loFuqX indicates that withdrawing USAID Pepfar support in South Africa without effectively transitioning to supported services will lead to an estimated 601,000 HIV-related deaths and 501,000 new infections in the next 10 years.

bit.ly

Turn PEPFAR funding freeze crisis into opportunity

The PEPFAR funding freeze has impacted millions of South Africans living with HIV.

000

Knowledgebase.Land @africaland.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

"In Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo , the phrase débrouillez-vous (fend for yourself) is considered such an important life lesson that the city’s inhabitants refer to it as ‘article 15’ – an imaginary addition to the Congolese constitution" www.iied.org/extreme-ineq...

iied.org

Extreme inequality and housing injustice in the DRC: rebuilding ‘Kinshasa la Belle’

Past policies and programmes in the city of Kinshasa have led to little or no improvement in housing provision and affordability. A new report reveals that proposed policy approaches risk perpetuating...

000

Reposted by Knowledgebase.Land

GroundUp News @groundup.org.za · 21/02/2025

South Africa’s icebreaker ship, the SA Agulhas II, returned to Cape Town on Monday after taking supplies and a relief crew to South Africa’s Antarctic base, but the results the scientists on board brought back are alarming. Read groundup.org.za/article/iceb... by Steve Kretzmann

groundup.org.za

Icebreaker returns from Antarctica with alarming news

Scientists aboard the SA Agulhas II have been tracking ocean health

22010

Reposted by Knowledgebase.Land

GroundUp News @groundup.org.za · 21/02/2025

KZN activist shot dead: Vusi Banda – Mondlo Township Civic Organisation chairperson – was murdered on Thursday Read groundup.org.za/article/kzn-... by Bongane Motaung

groundup.org.za

KZN activist shot dead

Vusi Banda – Mondlo Township Civic Organisation chairperson – was murdered on Thursday

165

Reposted by Knowledgebase.Land

Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Carbon offsets are one of the spaces where big ag and big oil reveal their strategy to continue business as usual while finding more mechanisms to increase their profits. EG cover crops offsets often require fossil fuel use but that isn’t counted b/c the offsets are based on soil organic carbon.

1177

Reposted by Knowledgebase.Land

Jana Bacevic 🌲🌳✊🏴 @unsocialtheory.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Hi @theguardian.com -- I think you mean 'continuing to burn fossil fuels' or 'extractive, carbon-intensive economies', or maybe just 'first-world economies', rather than 'melting glaciers'

0162

Knowledgebase.Land @africaland.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

William Shoki: The global right—and Musk in particular—have seized on land reform as a vehicle for their broader ideological agenda: africasacountry.com/2025/02/elon...

africasacountry.com

Elon Musk’s South African fantasy

Musk’s outrage over land reform in South Africa isn’t about fairness—it’s about fueling right-wing paranoia and preserving economic privilege.

000

Knowledgebase.Land @africaland.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Essential reading! This four part blog by Laura Czerniewicz takes you on a deep dive into the ills of the Zuckerberg metaverse and how WhatsApp contributes to its toxicity. czernie.weebly.com/blog/avoidin...

czernie.weebly.com

Avoiding Whatsapp as a political act

This is the first part of a four-parter. Part Two on what’s wrong with Meta is here . Part Three on how metadata really matters is here . Part Four on how to avoid Whatsapp is here .

000

Knowledgebase.Land @africaland.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Andile Zulu The Expropriation Act is a procedural piece of legislation that lays out the context and criteria through which the government may take private property, either in the public interest or for public purpose. africasacountry.com/2025/02/race...

africasacountry.com

Race, power, and the politics of distraction

As economic crises deepen, right-wing fearmongering and racial scapegoating thrive—masking the real struggle for economic justice.

011

Knowledgebase.Land @africaland.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Chris Tanner reflects on how ‘innovations in land governance’ are failing to take up the challenge of preventing Land Grab 2.0. Making land administration tools more efficient with updated digital technology can play into the hands of private investors. mokoro.co.uk/can-2025-ush...

mokoro.co.uk

"Can 2025 usher in real change or will it be ‘business as usual’ with a green face?" - Mokoro

In 2024 Christopher Tanner attended both the World Bank Land Conference in Washington, and the LANDac Conference in Utrecht. Christopher is a Mokoro Principal Consultant and has over 30 years...

000

Knowledgebase.Land @africaland.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

So how does this connect to land and human rights in Africa? The implosion of what was left of American 'democracy' has ripple effects around the globe. It emboldens those who already peddle in falsehoods, who divide and plunder as a livelihood strategy. It drives conflict, land and resource grabs

000

Knowledgebase.Land @africaland.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Robert Reich on mainstream media cowardice, failing to name what is happening under their noses. open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

open.substack.com

Say what this is: a coup.

Friends,

000

Knowledgebase.Land @africaland.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Timothy Snyder on the appeasement of Putin and the consequences of abandoning Ukraine. The past speaks to and illuminates the present open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

open.substack.com

Appeasement at Munich

World Wars, Past and Possible

000

Knowledgebase.Land @africaland.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

A quick update with links to some of the land related news stories and features curated on www.knowledgebase.land for December 2024 and January 2025 www.linkedin.com/pulse/africa...

linkedin.com

Africa Land and Environment Digest

Highlights from news items curated on www.knowledgebase.

000

Knowledgebase.Land @africaland.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

snyder.substack.com/p/crossing-a... Think about what lines you will cross and that you will not cross. They are not as obvious, perhaps, as a line on a map, or a line of trenches at the front. But we cannot pretend that they are not there. And if we cross them, we will no longer be ourselves.

snyder.substack.com

000

Knowledgebase.Land @africaland.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

The Center for Progressive Reform and Governing for Impact are monitoring the Trump administration’s implementation of Project 2025, tracking the authoritarian blueprint’s executive action proposals across 20 federal agencies. Explore the tracker (spreadsheet). policycommons.net/artifacts/18...

policycommons.net

Project 2025 Executive Action Tracker | Policy Commonscoi_icon

This is a toolkit/how-to published by Center for Progressive Reform in February 2025. It was written by Center for Progressive Reform.

000

Knowledgebase.Land @africaland.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

“The reality is you are oxygenating the things these people are saying (insert your own list of authoritarian actors and evangelists) even as you purport to debunk them,” Katherine Cross, a sociologist and author of Log Off: Why Posting and Politics (Almost) Never Mix,

020

Reposted by Knowledgebase.Land

404 Media @404media.co · 05/02/2025

You can’t post your way out of fascism Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them 🔗 www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...

404media.co

You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism

Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.

11661452605

Knowledgebase.Land @africaland.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Can your property be confiscated in South Africa? The short answer is: No. Rebecca Davis from the Daily Maverick explains. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaVF...

youtube.com

Expropriation Bill: Decades in the making, what lies ahead for South Africa?

YouTube video by Daily Maverick

000

Knowledgebase.Land @africaland.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Rwanda is a proxy for Western interests in the mineral-rich Great Lakes region. Its military is armed by the US, UK, France, the EU. It is closely aligned to Israel and its intelligence and military are equipped with Israeli-made spyware and weapons. progressive.international/wire/2025-02...

progressive.international

PI Briefing | No. 5 | Every human life is a life

Over 200 movements stand for Congolese dignity in the face of imperial assault.

000

Reposted by Knowledgebase.Land

Open Source Initiative @opensource.org · 07/02/2025

The emergence of AI systems and the growing awareness of how they were trained on the digital commons are causing some to re-evaluate the value of open sharing. opensource.org/datagovernance #opensourceai

opensource.org

Data Governance in Open Source AI

012

Knowledgebase.Land @africaland.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Scientists brace ‘for the worst’ as Trump purges climate mentions from websites

000

Reposted by Knowledgebase.Land

Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 05/02/2025

Midweek ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the lowest on record (JAXA data) • about 690,000 km² below the 2010s mean • about 1,330,000 km² below the 2000s mean • about 1,910,000 km² below the 1990s mean • about 2,330,000 km² below the 1980s mean Plots: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i... 🌊

Line graph time series of 2025's daily Arctic sea ice extent compared to decadal averages from the 1980s to the 2010s. The decadal averages are shown with different colored lines with purple for the 1980s, blue for the 1990s, green for the 2000s, and white for the 2010s. Thin white lines are also shown for each year from 2000 to 2024. 2025 is shown with a thick gold line. There is a long-term decreasing trend in ice extent for every day of the year shown on this graph between January and April by looking at the decadal average line positions.

716376

Knowledgebase.Land @africaland.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Access to information is a fundamental right in democracies. It is also an enabler for sustainable development, promoting society's participation in decisions about our health, environment, economy, and lands. landportal.org/blog-post/20...

landportal.org

Protecting USAID’s legacy of land knowledge | Land Portal

The Land Portal has been following the news about USAID’s shutdown with much sadness and concern. During its 60-plus years of existence, the agency has acted on many fronts of international developmen...

000

Reposted by Knowledgebase.Land

Unscrambled @strandloper.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

From the Daily Maverick: Ramaphosa spoke to Musk in which they discussed “issues of misinformation and distortions about South Africa." Good strategy to go to the source of the rubbish. www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

dailymaverick.co.za

Ramaphosa flags ‘disinformation’ concerns in Musk call

In a call with South African-born tech billionaire Elon Musk, who is close to US President Donald Trump, President Cyril Ramaphosa said South Africa ‘does not have racist ownership laws’ and raised co...

122

Reposted by Knowledgebase.Land

Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

It's not a demolition site it's a mass grave. It's not a demolition site it's a crime scene. It's not a demolition site its a homeland. It's not a demolition site it's Palestine. It's not a demolition site it's a genocide.

9756972379

Reposted by Knowledgebase.Land

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 03/02/2025

South Africa’s president fired back at President Trump on Monday after Trump accused the South African government of "confiscating land" and "doing some terrible things, horrible things."

nytimes.com

South Africa’s President Fires Back at Trump’s False Claim of Land Seizures

President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa said that his country had not seized land. Ownership of land in the country has been a contentious issue for generations.

4350796