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Pretoria News
It was the end of an era for the small Westfort community yesterday
when they vacated houses they have occupied for decades… Siphiwe
Ngomane, from Nkuzi Development Association, a land rights organization
that represented the community there, said “the consortium hadn’t
been forthcoming and did not explain properly the implications of
the court order to residents”… Ngomane believes that government
has not set up adequate mechanisms to deal effectively with the lack
of housing in the country and that the only answer will be a comprehensive
programme that will address the shortage of houses at all levels.
06 February 2001
Northern
Review
It is clear to Nkuzi, from our extensive work on farms over the last
years, that there is still preferential treatment of white land owners
at the expense of black workers. The arrest of Vivier and the backlash
from elements in the police, Holford and other defenders of white
privilege, has to be seen in the context of the struggle for transformation
in South Africa. We all have the responsibility to ensure transformation
in our society, to ensure that there is justice for all regardless
of race and position.” Marc Wegerif.
13
March 2001
Sowetan
The Nkuzi Development Association this week helped the first deported
Zimbabwean, a labourer who was so badly savaged by dogs that he
was confined to a wheel chair, return to testify in the Louis Trichardt
Magistrates Court. Mike Maswero told the court that the farmer Piet
Smith…tied him to a tree and set guard dogs on him after he
asked for financial assistance to bury his mother. Assault charges
against Smith were on the verge of being dropped before Nkuzi stepped
in, because investigators contended Maswero was an illegal immigrant
and could not be traced in Zimbabwe.
01 July 2001
The National Land committee
(NLC), Nkuzi Development Association (NDA) and the Landless People
Movement (LPM) effected a long standing court order to reinstate
an 84 year-old farmworker unlawfully evicted from the farm Walkraal
outside Potchefstroom in North West… NDA field coordinator
Mr Siphiwe Ngomane said: “…Land Affairs officials did
not care and its because of their abdication of duty that Molefe
had to stay along the road”.
10 October 2001
City
Press
The
community of Elim and surrounding areas have a reason to smile following
the opening of Nkuzi law clinic... Marc Wegerif said the clinic was
established to help local communities in rural areas with legal assistance...
“government passed many laws to defend people’s rights,
but unless people have legal assistance, they can’t use that
advantage”.
29
July 2001
Sowetan
Sunday World
The
Nkuzi Development Association won an order in the land claims court
in Randburg last month that will enable people whose rights are being
threatened to appoint legal representatives at the states expense.
22 July 2001
Cyril
Ramaphosa (Then Secretary General of the African National Congress)
“
The massively unequal
distribution of land is not just the unfortunate legacy of apartheid;
it is the totally unacceptable continuation of apartheid. Whoever
owns the land is in effect the master or mistress of the people on
the land.”
October
1993
Bars
in Limpopo Province
For a
good place for a drink in Polokwane try Carolux Bar. It is in the
Shoprite Centre in Market Street. Go into the arcade where the Wimpy
is or park at the other side opposite Flying High. If in Elim the
bar to go to is the Fig Tree. It is approximately 100m past the Elim
Bakery and Nkuzi office on the left hand side.
Poem
Believe in yourself Spirit of Biko fills
this independent body.
The self driven by my own values, informed by the history of my community,
energised by the struggles of millions for their own identity. Identity
with dignity.
Mzamani July 2001
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