Several families who lost their land in Gauteng are finally getting it back.
President Cyril Ramaphosa will be at Kilnerton Memorial site to lay a memorial wreath in honor of the land restitution beneficiaries.
Ramaphosa will then proceed to Mamelodi to handover the finalized and settled land claims.
The groups lost their land when their relatives were abruptly removed from their properties by pre-democratic administrations who acted in terms of the widely resisted 1913 Natives Land Act.
President Ramaphosa to handover settled and finalised land claims to ten claimants communities in Gauteng
The Department of Rural Development and Land Reform Minister, Maite Nkoana- Mashabane through the Commission on the Restitution of Land Rights program will host a Presidential Land Handover ceremony for settled and finalised land claims for Gauteng Province.
President Cyril Ramaphosa is scheduled begin the programme of the day by laying a memorial wreath at the Kilnerton Memorial Site which was erected by land restitution beneficiaries to honour the dispossessed land of their forefathers. The president will then attend the main ceremony to deliver the key note address and handover the settled and finalised claims to the land claimants and beneficiaries.
The Gauteng Presidential Handover Ceremony is scheduled to take place as follows:
1. Kilnerton Wreath laying Memorial Ceremony
Time: 08h00
Venue: Kilnerton Memorial Site, Kilner Park, Queenswood, Pretoria
2. Land Claims Handover Event
Date: Saturday, 09 March 2019
Time: 10h00
Venue: Moretela Park, Mamelodi, Tshwane (Gauteng)
The settled and finalised land claims will be handed over to the Mahlangu and Malobola families and Financial Compensation to nine claims which includes: The Dukathole community, Ebenezer Churches; Motshile Jacob Mathabe claim; Franspoort 332 JR Claim; Hondsrivier 508 JR – Msiza family claim; Kafferskraal Land Claim; Tweefontein 491 JR – Mahlangu Family; Tweefontein 491 JR – Ntuli Family and Vygeboschlaagte 236 JQ – Rodman Community claim. The claimants and beneficiaries are from City of Johannesburg, City of Tshwane and Ekurhuleni municipality.
These groups lost their rights in land when they were abruptly removed from their properties with the implementation of the provisions of the 1913 Natives Land Act. The Commission on Restitution of Land Rights has spent over R203 million in settling and finalising the claims.
