White farmer Noel Fleming bought the peach- and livestock farm in Kokstad in 2014: and wants to evict 6 'tenant families' it is being claimed.
We have been unable to obtain comment from farmer Noel Fleming so this following report only contains the propaganda from the EFF/ANC party...
also see: EFF storms ANC council offices in Kokstad:
http://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/eff-storms-kokstad-council-offices-1.1741103
"THE threat of eviction has united political foes ANC and EFF against a farmer in KwaZulu-Natal.
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PLEASE NOTE THE NUMBER OF FARMS AVAILABLE FOR SALE IN KOKSTAD ARE MANY and the average house-price for homes in Kokstad, named after Griqua voortrekker leader Adam Kok, average R400,000.
http://www.property24.com/for-sale/kokstad/kwazulu-natal/151
http://www.property24.com/articles/kokstad-homes-selling-from-r400k/18092
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A total of six tenant-families face eviction. Under the law, the farm-owners have to provide alternative, suitable housing for the tenant-families.
Noel Fleming bought the farm last year. Families living there say he has threatened to evict them.
One of the 'tenants' facing eviction is Nomathemba Sibanyoni, 75, who has lived on the farm for 39 years.
The Extension of Security of Tenure Act (1997) says tenants like Sibanyoni cannot be evicted from the farm unless they have broken the law and attempted to harm the landowner.
The act gives people who have resided on a farm for more than 10 years and are over the age of 60 special rights to the land.
The matter has been reported to the department of rural development and land reform, but the farmer has apparently increased his efforts in intimidating the farm tenant s.
The department's regional director, Phakamile Nobula, said when the matter was brought to their attention, they told Fleming that he could not evict the tenants without giving them alternative accommodation.
"He told us that the sale agreement he signed states that the tenants would move out. "We have asked him to forward us that agreement and he has not done so," said Nobula.
He said the department would find legal representation for the affected families.
Fleming did not respond to requests for comment yesterday.
ANC councillor Tshidiso Mohlakoane yesterday said he told the families not to move.
He claimed that 'the issue of farm tenants being given a week's notice or being dumped in the middle of town is common in local farms".
However he did not provide proof of this claim. He merely said: "We want to put a stop to this because it is illegal," he said.
The EFF, which recently led a campaign to invade empty local farms, said it would march to the farm."We want to make an example [of] this farmer by marching to his farm next week and demarcating it for the farm tenants," the EFF's local leader Dumisani Dlamini said. "He came from Europe without land and he and his people stole the land from our people and now he has the audacity to chase our people away."
One of the 'tenants' facing eviction is Nomathemba Sibanyoni, 75, who has lived on the farm for 39 years.
The Extension of Security of Tenure Act (1997) says tenants like Sibanyoni cannot be evicted from the farm unless they have broken the law and attempted to harm the landowner.
The act gives people who have resided on a farm for more than 10 years and are over the age of 60 special rights to the land.
She said when she told Fleming she had nowhere to go, he said "he doesn't care, I can live on the mountains or on the road".
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( Comment: The fact that the Economic Freedom Front and the ruling African National Congress party which they are supposed to oppose, now are teaming up and plan to evict a white farm-family from their Kokstad farm, is rather interesting. it is seen increasingly all across South Africa that the two parties are 'cooperating' with one another in violent incidents... proving that they have been working together all along..)
--------------------------"THE threat of eviction has united political foes ANC and EFF against a farmer in KwaZulu-Natal.
A total of six families are facing possible eviction from a peach and livestock farm in Kokstad. It's not known if the farmer is paid rental for the houses.
Noel Fleming bought the farm last year. Families living there say he has threatened to evict them.
One of the 'tenants' facing eviction is Nomathemba Sibanyoni, 75, who has lived on the farm for 39 years.
The Extension of Security of Tenure Act (1997) says tenants like Sibanyoni cannot be evicted from the farm unless they have broken the law and attempted to harm the landowner.
The act gives people who have resided on a farm for more than 10 years and are over the age of 60 special rights to the land.
The matter has been reported to the department of rural development and land reform, but the farmer has apparently increased his efforts in intimidating the farm tenant s.
The department's regional director, Phakamile Nobula, said when the matter was brought to their attention, they told Fleming that he could not evict the tenants without giving them alternative accommodation.
"He told us that the sale agreement he signed states that the tenants would move out. "We have asked him to forward us that agreement and he has not done so," said Nobula.
He said the department would find legal representation for the affected families.
Fleming did not respond to requests for comment yesterday.
ANC councillor Tshidiso Mohlakoane yesterday said he told the families not to move.
He claimed that 'the issue of farm tenants being given a week's notice or being dumped in the middle of town is common in local farms".
However he did not provide proof of this claim. He merely said: "We want to put a stop to this because it is illegal," he said.
The EFF, which recently led a campaign to invade empty local farms, said it would march to the farm."We want to make an example [of] this farmer by marching to his farm next week and demarcating it for the farm tenants," the EFF's local leader Dumisani Dlamini said. "He came from Europe without land and he and his people stole the land from our people and now he has the audacity to chase our people away."
One of the 'tenants' facing eviction is Nomathemba Sibanyoni, 75, who has lived on the farm for 39 years.
The Extension of Security of Tenure Act (1997) says tenants like Sibanyoni cannot be evicted from the farm unless they have broken the law and attempted to harm the landowner.
The act gives people who have resided on a farm for more than 10 years and are over the age of 60 special rights to the land.
She said when she told Fleming she had nowhere to go, he said "he doesn't care, I can live on the mountains or on the road".
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