Land Claims process to be re-opened

[LazyLion]

The land claims process closed 14 years ago will be reopened, The Star newspaper reported on Wednesday.

According to the draft Restitution of Land Rights Amendment Bill published last week the new deadline for claims would be December 31, 2018.

The previous deadline was December 31, 1998.

If the bill became law, it would allow those who missed the first deadline to claim, opening the door to new claims for those dispossessed by homelands betterment schemes, including white people, The Star reported.

It would also allow people to lodge claims that were previously refused.

The land claims process was for those who were dispossessed of a land right after June 13, 1913 as a result of past racially discriminatory laws.

An explanatory memo attached to the draft bill said the previous restitution programme had "a number of problems" and certain categories of people who lost their rights due to colonial and apartheid laws had not been included.

These were people who could not lodge claims before the December 1998 deadline, and those who were dispossessed before 1913.

Others were dispossesses through betterment planning schemes but were not allowed to lodge claims.


Source : Sapa /pd/tk/jk
Date : 29 May 2013 08:12

 

[Greylor]

And another step backwards.

 

[Wyzak]

The ANC will do anything for votes come next year. Looks like they are worried.

 

[Fulcrum29]

This system will be abused.

I hope those who do have legal rights can claim in cooperation with current owners in respected manner. The problem however is the legal documentation which will put the owner in a legal claim status.

What about property which has claim rights which is in government/municipal possession?

 

[ToxicBunny]

A simpler solution, would be to have a timeframe that dispossesion applies to. YOu can claim for it if you lost your land during a timeframe and have documented evidence of such.

Otherwise GTFO.

 

[Fudzy]

A simpler solution, would be to have a timeframe that dispossesion applies to. YOu can claim for it if you lost your land during a timeframe and have documented evidence of such.

Otherwise GTFO.

I agree, lets hope those documents weren't 'displaced' during the forced removal.

 

[OrbitalDawn]

May I request the land on which the Union Buildings is situated? My ancestors told me in a dream they used to live there.

 

[ToxicBunny]

May I request the land on which the Union Buildings is situated? My ancestors told me in a dream they used to live there.

They were lying..

My animal spirits have shown me the land that used to belong to my forefathers that we were never told about.

Its pretty much every bit of valuable land in the country, so you can all leave my land now, or pay me exorbitant rents.

 

[Thingyyyyyy]

And with our vending machine turning out id's to foreign nationals soon every Somali immigrant will have a land claim