ANDILE NTINGI: After 22 years, state still has not upgraded land rights in former homelands
Rural communities are being economically penalised and prevented from developing their land into revenue-generating farms
20 July 2020 - 15:13
For several decades rural communities in the former homelands have lived under a lingering threat of losing their homesteads because they do not have title deeds proving they own the land they live on.
This threat became reality in 2018 for a group of Eastern Cape families sharing a commonage in my hometown of Butterworth, who found a portion of their land occupied illegally by a group from the nearby Mchubakazi township...
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