The Land Claims Court of South Africa has ordered that a family that has had their land rights taken away under apartheid be compensated financially…
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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.
The court heard that Zuma was taken out of school and provided labour as a domestic at the age of 12 for the first defendant, Sinclair’s mother. Zuma’s daughter Vera Zuma was nine years old when she was also taken out of school to provide labour as a nanny to Sinclair’s children.
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…