It’s our land, labour tenants tell Hilton College
A portion of the elite school's 1,762ha property is at the heart of the argument presented to the Constitutional Court
After unsuccessfully trying for more than 22 years to lay claim to a portion of SA’s most expensive and prestigious school, labour tenants from KwaZulu-Natal have now taken their fight to the Constitutional Court. On Thursday, the Legal Resources Centre presented arguments to the country’s top court for the reinstatement of a Land Claims Court order to appoint a special master to oversee claims by families who laboured on farms in lieu of payments and permission to live on a portion of the farm. At the heart of the arguments at the Constitutional Court in Johannesburg will be a portion of Hilton College’s 1,762ha property, which includes farmland, timber plantations and a game reserve. This portion of land has been the subject of a land claim by labour tenants for more than 22 years. But the private school, whose fees are about R300,000 a year, is disputing the claim that excludes the school buildings and sports fields. In 2016, the Land Claims Court found the department of rural...
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