Court ruling clarifies the land rights of individuals
Jul 16, 2021
3 minutes
The KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Pietermaritzburg recently ruled that the Ingonyama Trust had erred when it forced tenants to convert their traditional permission-to-occupy (PTO) rights into leases on their ancestral land.
The court ordered all rent collected be repaid to the claimants, and that their PTO rights be restored until such time as their rights to the land could be formalised, for which the minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development (agriculture
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