AGRICULTURE NEWS - Disputes among land reform claimants and beneficiaries should be referred to existing formal land reform processes for arbitration, instead of parties resorting to violence.
This was according to a statement issued by Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development after a recent attack in which a land reform farm manager was thrown into a fire in KwaZulu-Natal’s Mtwalume area.
The victim was allegedly assaulted by four unknown assailants, and managed to put the fire out by rolling on the ground. He was taken to hospital for treatment.
The portfolio committee’s statement alleged that the attack on the farm manager was linked to divisions within the Mathulini Communal Property Association (MCPA) that was allocated a 7 500ha sugar cane farm as part of the association’s land restitution claims.
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