THE National Association for the Advancement of the Aboriginal People of Southern Africa (Naapsa), which took over a plot of unoccupied land in Eldorado Park this week, has called on the government to raise funds for housing in the area.If the government failed to meet the organisation’s demands, the association would take more land and its members would boycott next year’s local government elections, Naapsa leader Don Reese said on Tuesday.Naapsa represents "aboriginal South Africans", who are defined as people of Khoi descent.Mr Reese said the occupied land belonged to the people represented by Naapsa, and that the association did not consider its actions to be land occupation.Naapsa had 10,000 members nationally, he said."We will engage with government on a process to build for people on the land."Though Naapsa identified with the Economic Freedom Fighters’ land grab campaign, it had been using the "socialisation of land" as a tool to engage with authorities "long before the (par...
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