State to explain in court how farmworkers were evicted without alternative housing
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Johannesburg - The tables are turning against the government in a court case pursued on behalf of 13 former farmworkers evicted with their families and belongings from a farm in Ventersdorp.
The Department of Rural Development and Land Reform and the JB Marks Local Municipality face being slapped with costly court orders after the Blesbokfontein farm evictions.
The two government entities have been ordered to be present at the Land Claims Court to explain how farmworkers were evicted without alternative accommodation.
Tsakane Julius Moeketsi and fellow former Blesbokfontein workers spent two nights with their children and belongings in the open last week following the eviction.
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