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Original Post Date: 2004-05-28 Time: 14:50:42 Posted By: Jan
[Here is another important propaganda lesson for everyone. When you read this story in the South African media – and even the story below – they describe this as a “victory for everyone”. The whole issue is couched in the most beautiful, positive terms. But the reality is, that a VERY CRUCIAL element of our constitution has been compromised right under our noses and most people are taken in by the lovely spin put on these stories.
The court decided that the 40,000 illegal squatters who descended on this old white man’s property CAN STAY until (a) The Government finds them other accomodation (b) The Government must pay the farmer rent.
Firstly… the above decision is still in contravention of the original constitution which protected PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS. Those blacks have no right to settle on that man’s property.
But there may be something more sinister to watch for:
(a) Will the Government ever actually resettle the blacks… or will this “temporary arrangement” eventually become PERMANENT?
(b) Will the old white man actually get the “rent” he has been promised… (if so… for how long…).
The normal practise has been, even in Zimbabwe in the early days, to start out by paying and then eventually to cheat the whites progressively until eventually it is OUTRIGHT THEFT. So let’s watch…
Consider too that these blacks invaded this man’s land 3 years ago… and they’re still there… and even now, there is no date of when they will leave… It could be NEVER.
Let me remind you that there is plenty of open space in South Africa. Blacks do not HAVE TO actually invade private property. There are lots of black homelands with lots of space. I passed through the Ciskei last year… there is plenty of beautiful FREE LAND there for blacks to live on… They don’t have to buy it. They can move in anywhere (and its nice and green – great climate) – and they can settle there. There is lots of free options for blacks… It is sinister that they choose instead to all settle on a white man’s farm. I seem to remember the PAC (Pan Africanist Congress) actually orchestrated this invasion originally.
Note too how the ANC govt had appealed ON THE SIDE OF THE SQUATTERS not to have them removed from the land!!! Guess whose side the ANC is on!? Jan]
Johannesburg – Farm manager Braam Duvenhage jun, whose property was overrun by about 40 000 squatters who now have to be moved at government expense, says: “I really hope the State buys the land and we can get it over and done with.
“One has to treat the squatters like people, but be fair to us as owners, as well. Our crops have to be planted on that land.”
The Appeal Court ruled on Thursday the government must move about 40 000 squatters off the Duvenhage’s land, must pay the farmers market-related compensation, and find alternative land for the people that had to be moved.
Duvenhage jun said it was “undoubtedly going to cost the State many millions of rands”, whether they paid compensation or bought the land. The land was worth about R40 000 a hectare.
His father, also Braam Duvenage, was content the matter finally had been settled.
Dismissed squatters’ appeal with costs
He said: “This is a positive ruling with the right approach. This is the first time something has happened since 2000 – and the Court of Appeals made it happen.”
The “Modder East” squatters had appealed against a High Court order for their eviction from the farm near Benoni on the East Rand, owned by Modderklip Boerdery.
Simultaneously, the State appealed against an order holding it responsible for helping the squatters find alternative housing and land.
Sapa reported that Judge Louis Harms dismissed the squatters’ appeal with costs.
He ruled the State had infringed on the farmer’s constitutional rights and those of the squatters and ordered the department of agriculture and land affairs to pay damages to Modderklip Boerdery.
“The case brings home the harsh reality that the constitution’s promise of dignity and equality for all remains, for many, a distant dream,” said Harms, quoting a landmark Constitutional Court judgment.
“People should not be impelled by intolerable living conditions to resort to land invasions.
“Self-help of this kind cannot be tolerated, for the unavailability of land suitable for housing development is a key factor in the fight against (South Africa’s) housing shortage.”
Harms said Modderklip’s constitutional right to its property was entrenched in the Bill of Rights and was “basic” to the appeal.
So, too, was the squatters’ right of access to housing.
“But the real issue is not the existence of the right; it is whether the State has taken any steps in relation to those who… fall into the category of those in ‘desperate need’.
Modderklip left with the ‘heavy burden’
“The answer appears to be fairly obvious; it did not.”
The State also did not have, at central, provincial or local level, any plan to alleviate the circumstances of these needy people.
Instead the State had left Modderklip with the “heavy burden” – which was actually the State’s – to provide land to a settlement which had swelled to about 40 000 people.
This, without any recompense.
Harms ruled that this was unacceptable.
Edited by Iaine Harper
Source: News24.Com
URL: http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/New…/p>