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‘Scrap Ingonyama’s unlawful leases’
12 Dec 2020
Judges’ view: Neither the Permission to Occupy certificates nor the new leases safeguard people’s land rights. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy/M&G
The R90-million a year residential lease programme introduced by the Ingonyama Trust Board (ITB) is “fundamentally at odds” with the customary rights of people living on land it controls on behalf of King Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu, according to a new legal challenge.
The programme has reduced the “true and ultimate owners” of the land to mere tenants, who face eviction should they default on the rent they now have to pay for the land that has been occupied by their families for decades.