A 2019 precedent setting high court ruling compelled municipalities to provide farm dwellers with clean drinking water and provide access to dignified sanitation. However very little has changed for some farm residents.
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THE Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) is on a mission to redress the provision of water services to residents on privately owned land following…
The judge referred to section 3(4) of ESTA which she said creates a presumption that a person continuously and openly resided on land for a year has consent to do. He said although section 3(4) uses the language of openly residing, it cannot be interpreted narrowly to apply only to a consent to being housed, but must include a consent also to use the land connected to that residence, in this case the grazing of cattle.
It's just been horrific listening to the submissions of our people, particularly when we hear of the atrocities that are being meted out against them on a daily basis from the farms that they work on. And from the farms that they are forcing illegal and forceful evictions, some that were evicted are prohibited and prevented from coming through a visit their family graves.
Lolo Maphophe THE Land Claims Court has ordered a farmer to restore the grazing rights of a labour tenant family after they were denied the…
Terror on the farms…The family of farm resident Sholi Macu who walks with the aid of a cane and prosthetic leg has applied for a…