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Syndicate, corrupt officials and even police officers work together in illegal land grabs

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Residents in the Lenasia neighborhood, previously an Indian neighborhood, are busy protesting. The protest stems from the growing number of squatters who set up their huts in the south of Lenasia.

They regard this illegal land occupation as a risk to their safety and that it affects the value of properties. The neighborhood is now almost surrounded by informal structures.

Service delivery is apparently influenced and illegal coupling of power and water causes further stress.

The police had to use rubber bullets to chase the stickers apart. The MEC of housing Lobogang Maile said in a statement that syndicates work with corrupt officials and even police officers who “help” squatters to occupy illegal land.

-Vryburger / 2019-07-22

 

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Farm Manager ‘thrown into fire’ during violent ‘farm invasion’ in KZN

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FARM ATTACK – A farm manager in KwaZulu-Natal was hospitalised with burns on Saturday after “violent thugs” invaded a farm, set it alight and allegedly threw him into the flames.

IFP MP Inkosi Bhekizizwe Luthuli revealed details about the incident in a statement on Sunday on behalf of the Mathulini Communal Property Association.

“The perpetrators of this violent and unlawful act are part of the ‘concerned group’ that is attempting to hijack a 7,500 hectare land claim from the Mathulini Communal Property Association and the Ndelo Community Trust, valued in excess of R300m. The farms that make up this land claim produce 400,000 tonnes of sugar cane annually and employ 1,200 people,” Luthuli said.

“This violent hijack of a legitimate land claim is a desperate and unlawful attempt to achieve what has failed through legal processes that have so far cost the beneficiaries R6.5m in legal fees. The demands of the ‘concerned
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Suspension of Red Ants opened the door for illegal land occupations and land grabs – those who abide by the law are punished while law breakers go unpunished

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The Freedom Front Plus on Tuesday warned that the suspension of the Red Ants’ business registration was alarming and opened the door for illegal land occupations and land grabs.

The FF Plus was reacting to reports that the Private Security Industry Regulatory Authority (PSiRA) had suspended the business registration of Red Ant Security Relocation and Eviction Services, following the demolitions of illegal structures in Alexandra in May.

The party said it seemed that PSiRA had given in to political pressure to take action against the Red Ants.

“The Red Ants usually only take action after obtaining a warrant and the FF Plus assumes that the company did that in this case as well so the party, therefore, sees no grounds for the allegation that the company acted outside of its mandate,” the FF Plus said.

It said the fact that the company’s hands were now tied opened the door for large-scale land occupations.

“Open spac
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Squatters erected illegal informal settlement on Stellenbosch wine farm – Illegal Land grab shows people who are desperate for the land are not prepared to wait

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As the ANC promises to move forward with its plans to rework land expropriation without compensation into the Constitution, the party’s supporters are tired of waiting, and are taking things into their own hands.

A new exposé by the New York Times has highlighted how farm land in Stellenbosch has been occupied by squatters who are tired of waiting around for the national government to deliver on its land promises.

Between March and August 2018, land belonging to a wine farm owner near Kayamandi, was occupied by the squatters and a new informal settlement was erected.

According to the paper, while the courts have ordered that the squatters vacate the land, the informal settlement remains. Those who led the charge to occupy the land said it was done out of desperation and frustration with the slow rate of land reform.

The municipality is negotiating to purchase the land from the owner, Stefan Smit, and has reportedly already moved to sup
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Illegal land grabs take place in Durban after hundreds of people who are fed up with slow pace of housing delivery allocated plots themselves and start building shacks

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Fed up with the slow pace of housing delivery, hundreds of people have invaded vacant state land earmarked for a low-cost housing project in the Cato Crest informal settlement in Durban.

The residents descended on land in Mary Thipe Road, which boarders Mayville and Manor Gardens, on Monday and Tuesday and started clearing the bushes and allocating themselves plots to start building shacks.

While many residents were not willing to be interviewed or photographed, Happy Zwane told TimesLIVE that she was clearing the bush so that she could build her two children a home to leave them with when she dies.

“I have two children and I’m not married and I want to clear a plot for them so that when I die they would have a place to live. I don’t have a place of my own because I don’t own the place I live in. So I want to live my children with a home,” she said.

Others complained about being used as voting fodder by polit
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Illegal land grabs in North West province took place during the weekend and SAPS were unresponsive, ignoring calls for help – Notice the cars driven by the land thieves in the picture attached

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Illegal land grab incident occurred on January 12, 2019 in De Wildt, situated in the North West Province.

According to witnesses the South African Police Services (SAPS) were unresponsive, ignoring calls for help, doing nothing despite trespassing cases that have been opened.

President Ramaphosa of South Africa in September, 2018 announced in New York to main stream media at the United Nations that there are no illegal land grabs in South Africa as he was talking about foreign investments.

Illegal Land grabs happen often almost every weekend and have done for several years, this is just another example.

Originally posted by Break The Silence End Caucasian Genocide In South-Africa
This report does not necessarily reflects the opinion of SA-news.

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