This just in from IOL. Obviously land was taken from Whites and reserved for Blacks, Coloureds and Indians and here is some evidence. The ANC has opened a hole new can of worms with their land redistribution and WHITES all over SA should stand up for their rights and claim their land back that was "stolen" from the Apartheid Gov and given to Blacks, Indians and Coloureds.
Sadly, the Gov will find a way to bypass the system and will state that this man's claim is not valid because the land belonged to Blacks before his family bought it in 1968. Sadly, they will state that any land owned by Whites after 1913, was stolen from Blacks. The ANC just loves rewritting history and nothing is said about the fact that they (Blacks) themselves stole the land from the Khoi people and nearly caused a genocide against them.
The only true claimants of land in SA are the Khoi people as they were the "natives", while the Darker Skinned Africans moved down from East, West and North Africa around the same time that Europeans started coming to Africa.
But seeing as Science found that HUMAN LIFE started in Africa, African then belongs to ALL the people in the world, doesn't it?? But, we all know Blacks and they only claim reparations / compensation when History suites them. So yes, Life started in Africa (ALL LIFE OF ALL RACES), but only Black Africans can claim the land!! WTF!!
F. V de Wet
_________________________________________________________________________________
White man in land claim bid
It was designed to discourage people of colour from living in certain affluent areas earmarked for white people, but now the Group Areas Act has been turned on its head with a white man claiming compensation for land he says his family was “forced” to sell under the act at the time.
Abraham Wollach, 72, from Green Point has taken his case to the Land Claims Court, with the national government, the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform, the Commission on Land Rights and the regional land claims commissioner listed as defendants. He is claiming more than R28 million in compensation, saying the value of the land was not taken into account when it was sold.
The 1 500-hectare property – which was once a dairy farm – now comprises large parts of Atlantis, which was established in 1977. The area includes residential housing.
According to court papers, Wollach’s case is that the property had been owned by Hartebeeskraal Farms at the time.
Wollach’s father, Lazarus Wollach, was the majority shareholder.
His father bought the property in October 1968 before it was bought by the apartheid government’s Community Development Board for R475 627 five years later because the area had been declared for “coloureds”.
“It therefore became unlawful for the plaintiff’s father to own property there, as a person who had been classified as white,” the court papers said.
On Wednesday, Wollach, along with his advocate Joel Krige, took Acting Judge Steve Kahanovitz on an inspection in loco at the farm.
During the inspection, Wollach vividly recalled the layout of the farm, in which he mentioned dams, milking sheds and barns. Judge Kahanovitz was shown what was left of a now dried-out dam which had since made way for housing. About a quarter of the dam remains today.
The property was converted into the Hartebeeskraal Community Centre.
The border of the property ran along the Old Darling Road, with trees lining either side, and stretched towards Dassenberg Drive.
Krige submits that a number of factors needed to be taken into account, such as inflation, and the present day value of the land was R28 470 775. Court papers included historical valuation reports in which the value of the property at the time of the act was at least R848 100.
Wollach also wants the government to pay his legal costs.
The case has since been postponed to allow for experts to evaluate the property.
Krige said the experts would determine whether just and equitable compensation was given for the property. - Cape Times
No comments:
Post a Comment