Objective:
To provide quality legal and para-legal support services to poor and landless communities wishing to exercise their land and other human rights.
This work is implemented by the Land Rights Legal Unit of Nkuzi which is registered as a law clinic. The Legal Unit operates from Polokwane and recently placed a new attorney in the Nkuzi Elim office as part of a co-operation agreement with the Legal Aid Board. Nkuzi is exploring ways to extend legal services to all parts of the Province through establishment of further legal capacity in another under served part of the Province.

• Provide Legal assistance to people who would not otherwise have it on land rights and related cases


• Make the legal system accessible to the poor and landless with a focus on farm workers and women


• Support the delivery of land related human, social and economic rights
  
• emphasis on the needs of the rural poor, farm workers and women
• Build legal and para-legal capacity to deal with land related cases

• Informing and advising farm dwellers and others of their land rights


• Assisting in negotiations with land owners to reach acceptable solutions to land conflicts


• Opposing eviction orders in court


• Making inputs to government provincially and nationally on tenure, restitution and other laws which impact on land rights


• Taking land claims directly to the Land Claims Court. Using cases taken to court to set important precedents that will influence the application of the Restitution of Land Rights Act. Using the lessons from these cases to support inputs on policy


• Providing legal advice in negotiations regarding the settlement of land claims


• Carrying out private prosecutions of land owners for illegal evictions in terms of the Extension of Security of Tenure Act-Defending farm dwellers and NGO workers faced with trespass charges and other threats


• Assisting in the registration of legal entities for land ownership, including preparing constitutions


• Providing legal support to advice offices regarding land reform and land rights issues


• Working closely with the other Nkuzi field staff in order to provide legal support to their projects

• Two attorneys in the Limpopo Province


• One Legal Secretaries


• Litigation fund for paying for additional expert legal help and other disbursements when needed.