Xingwana Seizes Unused Farm in Gauteng

Agriculture and Land Affairs Minister, Lulu Xingwana, and an entourage of about 30 land affairs and provincial and municipal officials have invaded a land-reform beneficiary’s farm and summarily evicted the occupiers in the Yzerfontein area in eastern Gauteng.

Legal experts have described the seizure, which is part of government’s “use it or lose it” approach to redeem some of the government’s many failed land-reformed projects, as a violation of the constitution and of land tenure legislation.

Xingwana pointed out that she seized the farm because there is no agriculture going on the farm and the land-reform beneficiary, Veronica Moose, had never been on the farm and had sub-leased it.

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