ANNUAL
REPORT FOR THE YEAR 2003
Introduction
This report covers the period from January 2003 until the end of December 2003.The report aims to give an overview of the work and development of Nkuzi during this period.
In October 2002 Nkuzi undertook an annual planning exercise that resulted in the identification of four main programme areas Nkuzi implemented in the year 2003. These are Community Support,Research and Policy, Community Organizing and Training, and Land Rights Legal Assistance.
The programmes are all supported by Administration and Management which forms a fith area of work.
Nkuzi is begginig to stabilize after growing rapidly over the last three years.
During this year the highest number of staff at one stage was 30.by the end of the year the number has come to 27 staff members. The orgnization started the year with 27 full time staff members and it ended the with the same number.
This excludes 5 volunteers who work in different offices of Nkuzi on a six months contract.
A large part of the programme work work focused on the interventions made on farms to secure farm workers tenure rights.
Many cases reported to Nkuzi include, threatened eviction, labour, access to grave, assaults on farms, access to basic servises and human rights violations. Many of these cases were nwgotiated and settled out of court and others were referred to the Legal Unit.
There is close collaboration between the legal unit and Farm Dwellers Programme. The restitution work focused on assisting eighteen land claims to do everything required by the Commission to get land settlement. This include gathering baseline information for the validation of the claIMS, verify claimants for each claims, setting up legal entities, and assisting claimants during negotiations for the settlement of claims.
Some progress has been made with six community claims getting gazetted and the other four reaching an advanced stage of negotiation with the land owners.land delivery slowed down htis year with only few claims getting settled. In order to address the imbalances of the past the other legs of the Land Reform such as Redistribution and Tenure reform should play a role.
The land Rights Legal Unit continued to provide essential legal services to people who would have otherwise received no service at all.
The cases that were entertained by the Legal Unit included evictions,unfair labour practices,human rights abuses and a few land claims were also represented in the Land Claims Court. The work of the Research and the Policy Unit focused on national eviction survry. A lot of organizing has been done with the Landless People Movement (LPM) in the Limpopo including local
conferences, workshops and provincial events. Many communities who received land were assisted to kickstart activities that will result in the poverty alleviation and augmenting their livelihoods through the sustainable Livelihoods Promotion Project.
More information is provided
in this report on the various programmes and other organizational
developments.
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