#LandInvasions 3 white-owned farms torched by black farm-invaders #Gamalakhe KZN 4am June142014 - local had won land-claim against local community - now they are taking the land by force with SAPS just standing by and watching...
http://www.censorbugbear.org/farmitracker/reports/view/2438 -
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The apparent ring-leader of this mob is 'Inkosi' (tribal chief) Dumisane Mavundla -- as per tweet by @lamb_ruby: @chris_fourie @afriforum apparent mob leader (#TorchedFarms June 15) 2014 KZN) http://www.kzncogta.gov.za/.../InstallationOfInkosiDumisaneMavundla...
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After 27 white KZN South Coast farmers had won land-claim law suits in the law courts through Afriforum recently, these farmers and their families started getting death-threats and unknown black people started moving illegally onto many of these farms - claiming the 'land had been given to them by the indunas (tribal chiefs). While the farmers have been lodging formal complaints with the local police stations which have come to nothing, on June 14 2014, a large black mob arrived from Gamalakhe township in buses, described themselves as 'protestors' and, accompanied by the SAPS, this mob invaded three white-owned farms, torching their homesteads and large storage-sheds. The SAPS refused to stop them. Now these white farmers want to lodge formal charges against the SAPS for failing to intervene when their properties were being destroyed . But guess who will be investigating these cases? Robert Bomber McBride, whose bombs at Magoo bar in Brighton KZN killed 3 people and maimed more than 300, many suffering serious injuries, many permanently maimed and disabled. This act was so vile that it was even described as a Crime Against Humanity by Desmond Tutu while chairing the Truth and reconciliation Commission - because all the victims had been 'civilians'. And then this same McBride was pardoned for these vicious crimes and after a failed job as police-chief in Boksburg/Benoni and fighting charges of drunken-driving, Robert McBride was bombarded to head up the #IPID - the 'independent' watchdog agency which 'investigates police crimes'. White South Africans now also are faced with new 'property rights laws' -- which will allow 'local ANC officials' to confiscate any white privately-owned property they 'deem necessary for the good of the State'. This could include landed properties, bank accounts, savings, investment bonds, and personal properties such as your business premises and its contents, your cars, household goods, if they need your wheelbarrow, they will be allowed to just stroll in and take it under this 'law'. White South Africans and white foreigners who will try to lodge theft-charges at local police stations won't have any luck getting them back - the SA Police Service just stands there and laughs at you. -- https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=864389783574862&
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: three farms including this ruined wreck of Len Pienaar's homestead and store, (pics) were overrun by a mob from #Gamalakhe KZN who claim 'the land belongs to them'... report by Chris Fourie of Afriforum in KwaZulu Natal - who tweeted to the SA Police Service at 18h00 that the 'protest march by the Gamalakhe community is 'protected' but we demand protection for the farmers.'
AFRIKAANS REPORT FROM AFRIFORUM.CO.ZA
Afrikaans report from AFriforum June 14 2014
Lede van die SAPD in Ingogo het ʼn boer in kennis gestel dat besetters op sy grond, wat die plek aan die brand gesteek het, nie van brandstigting aangekla kan word nie omdat hulle in werklikheid die eienaars van die grond is.
Chris Fourie, AfriForum se provinsiale koördineerder in KwaZulu-Natal, sê dat mnr. Gerhard Botes, eienaar van die plaas Samson net buite Newcastle, omstreeks 14:45 op 8 Junie 2014 gesien het hoe besetters op sy grond die veld aan die brand steek. Hy het die plaaslike polisiestasie in Ingogo geskakel, maar toe hulle op die plaas aankom het hulle geweier om ʼn saak van brandstigting te open.
Fourie het gesê brandstigting is waar ʼn persoon onwettig en met voorbedagte rade iemand anders of sy eie onroerende eiendom aan die brand steek en dan die waarde van ʼn versekeraar verhaal.
“Die SAPD-lede het nie die nodige inligting omtrent die eienaarskap van die plaas gehad nie, maar prima facie-bewyse dui daarop dat mnr. Botes die wettige eienaar van die plaas is. Die SAPD-lede moes die saak oopgemaak het soos versoek en dit aan die ondersoekbeampte oorgelaat het om te bepaal wie die eienaar is. Hierdie optrede van die SAPD kan ʼn presedent skep dat besetters as eienaars beskou word en dat hulle kan doen wat hulle wil,” het Fourie afgesluit.
AfriForum het versoek dat die SAPD se stasiebevelvoerder by Ingogo die geval ondersoek en seker maak dat die brandstigters aan die pen ry.
Nog ʼn voorbeeld van AfriForum wat sy lede se regte beskerm. Indien jy by ʼn organisasie wil aansluit wat ‘n verskil maak en aan die gemeenskap sy stem terugbesorg, SMS “Newcastle” na 45267. R1/SMS.
https://www.afriforum.co.za/besetters-brand-boer-se-besittings-sapd-weier-om-op-te-tree-afriforum/
MARCH REPORT ON START OF LAND-INVASIONS:
Headline: "Farmer struggles with squatters"
March 19 2014 -- KwaZuluNatal - South coast farmer Len Pienaar is used to people trespassing daily on his land. But when a shack went up, he knew he had to act swiftly.
“That’s a land grab and I knew if I did not do something about it, I’d run the risk of other people doing the same,” said Pienaar, whose Lion Valley Farm is 5km from Margate.
He is one of several farmers across the country fighting squatters and has called in AfriForum, the civil rights organisation, to help him. AfriForum is dealing with 10 cases countryside, four of them in KwaZulu-Natal.
It has warned KZN farmers to join security networks to protect themselves and each other.
Pienaar said for eight years, he had had to put up with “hundreds” of people from the Gamalakhe township cutting his R480 000 fence and taking shortcuts across his 90ha of land to get to and from Margate or Uvongo. Boundary pegs had also been removed.
He farms instant lawn, but soccer players regularly carve out a pitch on his land. Once a pitch is ruined, they move on to the next.
“I have just lost a R200,000 order because I could not supply enough lawn because the soccer players have ruined my land,” he said.
He claimed off-duty policemen also play. Local police spokesman, Captain Gerald Mfeka though asked, did not comment.
“I wanted to put in a pond for irrigation and hired an excavator for R2 800, but when the community made threats, saying children would drown, I had to send it away.”
The final straw was when a corrugated-iron shack went up on his land and several people took up residence.
Pienaar’s staff had tipped him off about a death threat against him by unknown members of the community, so he hired a security company to accompany Chris Fourie, AfriForum’s KZN community co-ordinator, to the shack.
Fourie delivered a letter on behalf of Pienaar explaining to the occupant he had entered the farmer’s property without permission and demanding he vacate the premises by the next day. The letter said a trespassing case would be opened.
That was in November.
Pienaar duly opened a case of trespassing at the Gamalakhe police station and the docket was referred to the senior public prosecutor in Port Shepstone. Mfeka said it was decided not to prosecute as it was considered a civil matter.
Mfeka said the owner of the shack, who is unnamed, said he was given “the place” by Inkosi Dumisani Mavundla.
The matter was allegedly handed to Mavundla, who is dealing with his indunas (local tribal chiefs).
The Daily News visited Pienaar’s farm last week where the occupants of the shack said they’d been willing to relocate their home to the other side of Pienaar’s fence, but a local headman had advised them to stay until a surveyor worked out where the boundaries were.
Pienaar is prepared to pay for the surveyor “but the community want a surveyor from the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform and we are still waiting”.
Sipho Dlamini, deputy director of communications for the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform, said it appeared their Port Shepstone office had not been approached for a survey service, adding on Monday that this was still being confirmed.
Asked about the death threats against Pienaar, Lieutenant Welcome Shusha said he had addressed the community last month and they had assured him they “would not touch him”.
Now, one of Pienaar’s neighbours, Fred Lauterbach, owner of The Exchange 5316, has several brick houses built illegally on his land.
Lauterbach also turned to AfriForum for help and last week, Shusha escorted Lauterbach and AfriForum’s Fourie to one of the houses, where he witnessed Fourie leave a notice to the owner to vacate the property.
A water meter, bearing the name of Ugu District Municipality, had been installed behind the house.
Lauterbach, who quit farming after a spate of thefts and an armed attack at his home, has now laid a trespassing case against the home owner as well as Ugu District Municipality. Municipal spokesman, Sipho Khuzwayo, said the municipality would be investigating.
Pienaar and Lauterbach were among 27 farmers who WON a land claim bid by the Mavundla Tribal Authority.
They won the case at the Land Claims Court in 2010 with the various respondents, including the KZN Land Claims Commissioner, the Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform and Inkosi Mavundla being ordered to pay their legal costs. They have yet to see any money.
TV continuity presenter, Scot Scott, who farms in the area and is the local representative of the KZN Agricultural Union (Kwanalu) was the driving force behind the legal fight.
Scott and Pienaar explained to the local community that the farmers had won the case and distributed about 10 copies of the judgment.
-- Jimmy Mnguni, chairman of the land claim executive group for Chief Mavundla, said they had not received official documents about the case from the Land Reform Department and as “there was no evidence”, they did not believe what the farmers had told them.
-- He claimed "they had unsuccessfully tried to get some clarity from the department last week.
“The farmers and the community need to sit down and clarify the borders with a surveyor,” he said.
Local people had been playing soccer on the land for more than 60 years, he said.
He denied the death threats against Pienaar, “if anything, we have a friendly relationship with him”.
Meanwhile, another land invasion battle in Karkloof, where farmer Peter Train and his wife, Gill, received death threats, appears to be over.
A labour tenant, who had grazing rights for seven cattle on Train’s land, but who had moved in more than 20, has now moved all the cattle off the land after mediation.
A further meeting to finalise the agreement will be held between the parties and a mediator from the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform next Monday.
Train, meanwhile, has relocated to Durban.
AfriForum has called on farmers to join organised agriculture institutions for support. The organisation has its own farm watch organisation, which acts as the “eyes and ears” for the police.
PROPAGANDA LIE FROM ANC REGIME:
"Sandy la Marque, the chief executive of Kwanalu, said there was clear legislation and specific processes to be followed to ensure squatting did not occur.
Kwanalu members had been provided with clear guidelines on how to deal with land invasions. And Kwanalu’s farmers associations had experienced varying degrees of success where there was a working relationship with the SAPS and security forces, she said.
Referring to the 14 farm murders of white farmers during 2012 and last year, she had a ready answer: claiming that 'there did not appear to be a direct link between 'race, land, and politics as motives'.
Daily News http://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-courts/farmer-struggles-with-squatters-1.1663869#.U51BV3aJGpr
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