A rural KwaZulu-Natal community will on Saturday receive title deeds to 8‚000ha of their ancestral land during a ceremony marking a success in the land reform process.
KwaZulu-Natal agriculture MEC Cyril Xaba and the provincial land claims commission will hand over title deeds to 376 claimants of the Amangcolosi community in Kranskop near Nkandla.
The community lodged a land claim in 2004 and in July 2005 officially received part of their land which included 12 formerly white-owned farms.
The Amangcolosi Community Trust‚ set up after the successful land claim‚ started a company called Ithuba Agriculture whose objective was to run the farms as a business entity. Ithuba has since managed to grow into a viable commercial business.
Saturday’s handover ceremony will include visiting successful projects initiated and funded by the trust such as the Dulumbe Primary School where classrooms donated by the trust cost just over a R1-million‚ a Lutheran church built by the trust‚ a cattle dip built for the benefit of the community and a vegetable garden.
The Amangcolosi Community Trust is hailed as one of the most successful land restitution projects in the country and it boasts timber‚ sugarcane‚ maize‚ chillies and leathern fern and has supply agreements with Glenhow Sugar Mill‚ Umkhumbi Maize Mill and NCT Forestry Cooperative‚ the government said.
TMG Digital/Durban Bureau
KZN community receives title deeds to ancestral land
A rural KwaZulu-Natal community will on Saturday receive title deeds to 8‚000ha of their ancestral land during a ceremony marking a success in the land reform process.
KwaZulu-Natal agriculture MEC Cyril Xaba and the provincial land claims commission will hand over title deeds to 376 claimants of the Amangcolosi community in Kranskop near Nkandla.
The community lodged a land claim in 2004 and in July 2005 officially received part of their land which included 12 formerly white-owned farms.
The Amangcolosi Community Trust‚ set up after the successful land claim‚ started a company called Ithuba Agriculture whose objective was to run the farms as a business entity. Ithuba has since managed to grow into a viable commercial business.
Saturday’s handover ceremony will include visiting successful projects initiated and funded by the trust such as the Dulumbe Primary School where classrooms donated by the trust cost just over a R1-million‚ a Lutheran church built by the trust‚ a cattle dip built for the benefit of the community and a vegetable garden.
The Amangcolosi Community Trust is hailed as one of the most successful land restitution projects in the country and it boasts timber‚ sugarcane‚ maize‚ chillies and leathern fern and has supply agreements with Glenhow Sugar Mill‚ Umkhumbi Maize Mill and NCT Forestry Cooperative‚ the government said.
TMG Digital/Durban Bureau
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