DA calls for urgent action against Easter land grabbers
12 April 2020
Note to Editors: A video link to Deputy President David Mabuza's recent parliamentary replies on land grabs is attached here.
The Democratic Alliance (DA) calls on Gauteng Premier David Makhura and the Johannesburg Mayor Geoff Makhubo to ensure that provincial and municipal assets are protected by putting an immediate end to land grabs.
On Good Friday, residents of Johannesburg South woke up to the scene of more than 1000 people, including undocumented foreign nationals, helping themselves to government owned land at the expanded Jackson’s Drift Informal Settlement near Eikenhof, bordering Midvaal.
It is clear that the land invasion was orchestrated to take advantage of the limited presence of law enforcement agencies who are monitoring compliance of the Covid-19 lockdown regulations during the Easter period.