The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) invaded Green Fields farm, outside Ballito, today, demanding that the land be given to them.
“We are here to claim back the land that Jan van Riebeeck took from our people through the barrel of a gun,” said EFF provincial member, land affairs, Tobias Mthiyane.
A group of about 20 people gathered on a hill overlooking the highway and said they were not willing to negotiate because Jan van Riebeeck did not negotiate when he took the land from the African people. They claimed the land invasion was part of the organisation’s national programme that was launched on April 6, in accordance with one of the EFF’s cardinal pillars of expropriating land without compensation.
Mthiyane said they would stay on the land until served with a court interdict to leave.
Shortly before sunset, representatives of the land owners agreed to approach the court for an interdict rather then force the EFF to leave immediately.
The land owners did not wish to comment at this point.
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