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KZN to expropriate farms
11-06-2005, 04:58 AM #1
Durban - Well over 60 farms in KwaZulu-Natal will soon be expropriated and handed to claimants as the Land Claims Commission moves to speed up the land restitution amid opposition from some farmers in the province.
These will be first batch of farms to be expropriated in KwaZulu-Natal as owners had failed to reach an amicable settlement with the commission, the government's news agency BuaNews reports.
The country's Chief Land Claims Commissioner, Tozi Gwanya, announced this during a media briefing in Durban yesterday.
The expropriation involves two land claims, one in Gongolo and the second in Gujini both in Estcourt.
Gwanya said the land to be expropriated involved 29 000 hectares.
In the case of Gongolo claim, he said the current landowners wanted the state to buy the land as "game reserve in waiting" and not as agricultural land, which was being used for stock farming.
"There is a deadlock in negotiations and dispute in a professional valuation report. The land in question has never been proclaimed as a game reserve and we cannot be asked to pay huge amount of money on the basis of hope," said Gwanya.
In the case of Gujini claim, he said there was a dispute between the owners and the state over the value of the property.
"The current market value of the claimed properties is over R8.9m by the landowners demand R12. 6m. There is, thus, a deadlock in negotiations," he said.
Gwanya said the Minister of Land Affairs, Thoko Msani-Didiza, approved the settlement of these claims as early as 2002 but the commission hadn't been able to reach an amicable solution due to "unrealistic" expectations by parties involved.
"This had led to serious frustration of land claimants. It is in this vein that the commission is recommending to the minister to consider expropriating the affected land as a deadlock breaking mechanism," he said.
Gwanya was at pains to explain that the expropriation route did not equal to "land seizure".
"Even in this case we are prepared to pay what is just and equitable compensation for a piece of land expropriated", he said.
However, it's apparent the government would increasingly drop the route of what it considers as long and frustrating route of a "willing seller and a willing buyer" as it moves to step up the pace of land restitution.
KwaZulu-Natal Agricultural Union on Thursday urged farmers not to panic over the issue of expropriation, saying such route was provided for in the constitution.
"We don't see this as land grab. In terms of expropriation, the constitution further allows for fair compensation. However KwaNalu's view is that the expropriation should be the last resort, all avenues and channels of negotiations should be pursued first", KwaNalu CEO, Sandy La Marque said.
The government is running against time to settle 3 311 outstanding urban land claims in KwaZulu-Natal by March 2006.
However, this figure excludes 1 935 outstanding rural community land claims that should be finalised by March 2008.
11-06-2005, 07:54 AM #2
Re: KZN to expropriate farms
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Hier is nou waar die popo die fan strike. Daar was nog nooit genoeg geld om al die grondeise deur te kry nie. Sodra hulle eers begin met oneien dan sal hulle nie stop nie. Dit is soveel makliker en dan klop die begroting ook.
Dit klink net soos in Zim, of hoe?
11-06-2005, 07:58 AM #3
Presies maar ek dink net ons boere het 'n beter kans om gehoor te word as ZIM - ons moet agter hulle staan en lawaai maak. Ek het so baie kontakte gehad maar met my rondtrekkery oorsee het ek baie kontak verloor! Dit is tyd dat ons begin skree!
Ek stem saam! Skreeu moet ons. Ek sal kom help sodra ons dan kamp opslaan op een van die plase. Dan moet hulle al 1000 van ons afgooi.
Ek stel 'n kunstefees voor, ons moet net uitvind wanneer die Balju verbykom
Ek skreeu al hard aan die kant, maar ek kort verdere hulp. Almal skryf briewe, as julle nog webbladsye aan my kan deurgee, doen dit asb.
Sanksies is sal al ding wees wat dit kan stop, van buite af. Van binne af kan net julle dit stop!
As daar 'n werklike plan was om plase beskikbaar te stel vir die "landloses" dan was daar genoeg geld as die wil daar was. Die plan is egter om die blanke af te forseer sonder om hom te kompenseer - so daar sal altyd 'n verskoning bestaan dat daar nie "genoeg geld" is nie. Vandaar ook die krete van "hoekom terugkoop wat nie die boere se eiendom is nie" wat ons aanmekaar hoor. Dit gaan nie oor om die boer regverdig te betaal vir die grond nie, dit gaan daaroor om hom te verneder en sy bates af te neem sonder vergoeding - al kos dit tien maal meer as hom te betaal.
Die grond onder teiken sal ook altyd die gedeeltes wees wat suksesvol op geboer word - en dit sal ook nooit einde kry tot die laaste boer van die laaste stuk grond af is nie.
Kyk maar na die taalgebruik wat teogepas word.
Swartes in Amerika is "immigrante" en ooral word vertel dat immigrante glo "positief" bydra - dus word altyd na hulle verwys as "immigrante". Boere is "settlers" - en "settlers" steel van die populasie en dra nooit positief by nie - dus word na boere altyd as "settlers" verwys. Die probleem sal vinnig groot word as daar na boere verwys word as "immigrante" want "immigrante" dra by tot 'n land. Dus sal geen wit persoon in Afrika na sommer verwys word as 'n immigrant nie - want Afrika is vir die "Africans" dws swartes - en as die blanke suksesvol in Afrika is dan ondermyn dit die polities korrekte ideologie. Blankes moet uit Afrika verwyder word - en daarom sal hulle altyd "kolonialiste" of "settlers" wees - nooit immigrante nie.
Swartes moet ingevoer word in Europa en Amerika - en sal nooit na verwys word as "settlers" of "kolonialiste" nie - alhoewel daar nie 'n verskil in die twee woorde se resultaat is nie. Die onderskeie woordgebruik is maar net om die blanke in 'n negatiewe lig en kwesbaar te maak en om die swarte positief te maak en te beskerm.
11-16-2005, 08:45 AM #6
Daarom - Afrikaner-Africans - Dit beteken ons is wit-afrika immigrante !!??
KvV ( AA's)
11-20-2005, 01:40 AM #7
Durban is so 'n pragtige plek! Dis 'n baie groot jammerte dat die koelies en k4's dit so oorneem en nou vat hulle die grond ook boonop af. Dis 'n groot jammerte.
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