Land held under traditional leaders is safe from being expropriated for purposes of restitution, as it would be "meaningless", Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Zweli Mkhize says. Mkhize on Wednesday attended the lekgotla of the house of traditional leaders which took place in Durban, where the issue of land was central to the discussions, including the proposal to dissolve the Ingonyama Trust. The Ingonyama Trust was established in 1994 to be the custodian of the land that was previously administered by the then KwaZulu-Natal government. It comprises 29.67% of the land in the province. A call for a review of the Ingonyama Trust first came from a high-level panel led by former president Kgalema Motlanthe, which recommended that Parliament scrap the law which allowed the trust to control land in KwaZulu-Natal. King Goodwill Zwelithini has previously said anyone who touched the Ingonyama Trust was declaring war against the Zulu nation. He called on every Zulu to...
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