Programme News
15 April 2009
(Press release)
Lawyers for Human Rights has been shocked by the recent threats of Ms Lulu Xingwana, the Minister of Land Affairs and her apparent "use it or lose it" land distribution policy. LHR is representing Ms Veronica Moos, a beneficiary of the land redistribution policy, who has recently seen her occupation of her farm personally violated by the Minister. It appears that the Minister has used...
12 April 2009
(News)
Bapsfontein - Me. Veronica Moos sê me. LuluXingwana, minister van landbou en grondsake, het haar van haar hoewe afgeskopnet soos die apartheidsregering haar ma in die 1960's uit haar huis in DistrikSes in Kaapstad gegooi het."Die geskiedenis word mos herhaal. Ek het nognie eens vir my 77-jarige ma gesê wat hier gebeur het nie, want ek onthou nogdie trane in haar oë toe die stootskrapers haar...
29 July 2008
(News)
By Zelda VenterBarely two metres from the busy R512 roadleading to Lanseria Airport and Hartbeespoortdam, eight families have bravedthe inclement weather after they were evicted from the farm on which some hadlived for more than 60 years.
The group ranges from the elderly to smallchildren.
On Sunday night when the Pretoria News visited the evictees,65-year-old Priscilla Masilo and Jeremiah...
22 July 2008
(News)
Pretoria - Residents of the Schubart and Kruger Parkflats in Pretoria obtained an urgent Pretoria High Court interdict on Tuesdayto stop their eviction.This followed an outbreak of violence and the death ofat least six residents when a fire broke out in the Kruger Park flats duringprotests against forced evictions.Judge Ferdi Preller granted an interim order to stopevictions from continuing at...
19 October 2007
(News)
Tears of joy flowed on Tuesday when the Richtersveld community finally won back the diamond-rich land taken from them almost a century ago.The restoration of the land was part of a settlement agreement confirmed by Land Claims Court Judge Antonie Gildenhuys, sitting in Cape Town.His order, handed down just after 4pm, ended a decade-long legal battle that went all the way to the Constitutional...
20 September 2007
(News)
BEN MACLENNAN | CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA - Sep 20 2007 14:27A group ofRichtersveld residents is to challenge a settlement agreement with thegovernment when the document goes before the Land Claims Court in Cape Townnext week for ratification.
Public Enterprises Minister Alec Erwin andrepresentatives of the Richtersveld Sida !hub Communal Property Association(CPA) signed the agreement in April...