THE Mangabane community in Sekhukhune, Limpopo, will receive a title deed to their dispossessed land on which Anglo-American has since established the Modikwa platinum mine.

Rural Development and Land Reform Deputy Minister Lechesa Tsenoli will handover the title deed to the community at a ceremony to mark Human Rights Day on Wednesday.

The community and the mine have already agreed on issues that will uplift the economic status of the poor community.

They include the payment of rental by the mine to the community, incorporating the community into the mine's social and labour plan programmes, construction of a community centre that will be shared with the neighbouring community of Matimatjatji and the establishment of Internet cafes.

The mine will also make a cash payment of R4.3-million to the community, which equals the value of the land on which the mine was now operating.

The community was dispossessed of their land in 1979. However, 19 individuals lodged separate claims at the Land Clams Commission before being consolidated into a single claim.

Before the title deed Tsenoli will today and tomorrow hand out vouchers worth almost R10-million as compensation for their dispossession of land to the communities of Newlands outside Polokwane and Relela in Modjadjikloof.

Since their dispossessed land can no longer be restored to them, 66 individuals of the Newlands community will each receive R54650.

The 59 individuals of Relela community will get R106,599.58 each.

The land from which the Newlands community was forcibly removed between 1961 and 1979 is now the residential settlement of Mashashane. On the dispossessed land of the Relela community now stands a college and a hospital.