Minister asked to intervene in land sale dispute
Rural Development and Land Reform Minister Gugile Nkwinti has been called on to intervene in a conflict involving land worth more than R600m awarded 15 years ago to people forcefully removed from Ndabeni, near Pinelands, Cape Town, says a Weekend Argus report. Concerns have been raised over the sale of land for far less than its value and that the trustees did not have the mandate to sell the land.
This was confirmed by department spokesperson Max Ozinsky, who reportedly informed Weekend Argus there were wrangles over the legitimacy of the trustees who sold the land to a developer last month. Ozinsky said the department would seek ‘engagement with the trustees and the community’ and if an agreement could not be reached the ‘only remaining option will be to approach the courts’.
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