AfriForum releases blitz guide against land occupation
13 March 2017
AfriForum and AfriBusiness released a guide on land occupation in Pretoria today. The civil rights organisation emphasised at the conference that communities must protect their properties themselves and should not count on Government.
This statement is strengthened by changing bills on land expropriation, as well as Government statements that increasingly mirror a Zimbabwean land reform style.
“Illegal occupation and appropriation of land, as well as political attacks on the Constitution are becoming all the more common in South Africa. It is of the utmost importance that land owners familiarise themselves with their rights, as well as how to act in case of occupation,” says Armand Greyling, AfriBusiness’s Law and Policy Analyst.
Ben Freeth, a Zimbabwean farmer, author of Mugabe and the White African and a panellist at the conference, warns that a South Africa without organised communities runs the risk of facing the same crisis that Zimbabwe currently must face.