Author: Kennedy Mudzuli

Multiple award-winner with passion for news and training young journalists. Founder and editor of Conviction.co.za

In August 2024, four residents from Slovo Park, south of Johannesburg, travelled to Nairobi for a gender and urban agriculture exchange. There, they encountered a policy environment that protects, regulates, and supports informal farming. Kenya’s Urban Agriculture Promotion and Regulation Act (2015) and Nairobi’s Food System Strategy (2022) have transformed backyard gardens and rooftop plots into recognised urban infrastructure. For Slovo Park, where the struggle for basic services and land rights has stretched across decades, the Nairobi visit was a turning point. Although a 2016 court judgement ordered the City of Johannesburg to upgrade the settlement under the Upgrading of…

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