Zulu royal land trust is accused of ‘extorting’ millions from rural residents. A politically charged court case involving millions of rands in rent paid to a trust headed by Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini has been postponed at the last moment.
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Nov 20 2019
Ingonyama Trust case postponed at the last minute
The Ingonyama Trust, which is headed by King Goodwill Zwelithini, is accused of ‘extorting’ rent from rural communities in KwaZulu-Natal.
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Nov 18 2019
How communities are defying the Ingonyama Trust’s land grab
Ahead of SA’s watershed 1994 election, 3-million hectares of KwaZulu land were transferred into the Ingonyama Trust, under the Zulu king. On November 22, the high court in Pietermaritzburg will hear residents who claim they have been unlawfully forced to pay rent to the trust, which, aside from having never received a clean audit, appears …
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Nov 01 2019
The chief, the mines and the lost Bakgatla billions
After two years of investigations of the flow of billions of rands into and out of the Bakgatla ba Kgafela community, the work of the Baloyi Commission of Inquiry may come to nothing. Since the report of the Commission was released at the end of August, showing how Chief Nyalala Pilane presided over the mismanagement …
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Oct 15 2019
Kgosi’s role in vanishing billions
The findings of the Baloyi commission of inquiry into the affairs of the platinum-rich but impoverished Bakgatla Ba-Kgafela community in North West are being challenged even as the premier of the North West is reported to be appointing an administrator and setting in motion a forensic probe aimed at identifying the specifics of criminal prosecutions …
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