Chapter 3 - Vryheid, KwaZulu/Natal
1,2. Farmers Weekly 18.4.03
Chapter 4 - The Eastern Cape
1, 2. Black Homelands in South Africa, published by The Africa Institute, 1976. P. 213
3. Ibid. page 218
4,5. Ibid, P. 220
6. Ibid. P. 136
7. Farmer’s Weekly 30.5.03
8. Business Report 6.7.03
9. Press Release Democratic Alliance, 6.10.03
10. Business Report 6.7.03
11. Black Homelands in South Africa, published by The Africa Institute, 1976. P. 218
12. Farmer’s Weekly 14.10.03
13. Farmer’s Weekly 10.1.03
14. Farmer’s Weekly 5.9.03
15. Rapport 1.7.01
16. Farmer’s Weekly 10.1.03
17. IPTRID (International Programme for Technology and Research in Irrigation and Drainage (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations), Programme Formulation Report, December 2000.
18. Rapport 17.6.01
19. IPTRID, Ibid.
20. The Citizen 23.12.02
21. The Citizen 3.7.03
22. Sunday Times 22.10.02
23. Business Day 15.8.03
24. Sunday Times 9.2.03
25. Farmer’s Weekly 24.3.00
26. Sunday Times 22.9.02
Chapter 5 – Kranskop
1. The Citizen 14.2.03
2. TAUSA International Bulletin, 14.10.03
3. Farmer’s Weekly 10.1.03
4,5,6,7. Ibid.
8,9. Rapport 8.12.02
10,11. Farmer’s Weekly 10.1.03
Chapter 6 - The Dunns of KwaZulu/Natal
1, 2. Paper presented by Mary de Haas at the Institute for Security Studies, Pretoria on 4.11.03.
3. Mail & Guardian 9.3.01
4. Business Day 6.7.00
5,6. The Citizen 11.7.00
7. The Citizen 5.6.01
8. Business Day 18.7.00
9,10,11. Paper presented by Mary de Haas at the Institute for Security Studies, Pretoria on 4.11.03
Chapter 7 - Levubu, Limpopo Province
1. Readers Digest Illustrated Guide to Southern Africa, First Edition 1978, P. 247
2. www.news24.com 22.5.03
3. The Agricultural Corporation of Venda (AGRIVEN), Fifth Annual Report for the period 1 April 1986 to 31 March, 1987
4. Beeld 10.10.03
5. Beeld 14.10.03
6. Beeld 9.10.03
7,8, 9. Beeld 14.10.03
10. www.news24.com 22.5.03
11,12.Farmer’s Weekly 15.8.03
13. Farmer’s Weekly 22.8.03
14. Farmer’s Weekly 15.8.03
15. Annexure 10, Volume 1 – “The Merits of the Ravele Land Claim - a Study”, 2003.
16. Case No. 33/01 – Land Claims Court 7.8.01
Chapter 8 - Mpumalanga Province
1. www.news24.com 15.4.03
2. The Citizen 24.11.03
Chapter 9 - The Limpopo Province
1,2,3. Northern Review 8.3.01
4,5,6,7. Northern Review 10.3.00
8,9. Northern Review 17.3.00
10. The Citizen 22.5.03
11,12. Farmer’s Weekly 14.11.03
13. Beeld 29.10.03
14. Sowetan 2.5.01
15,16,17,18. Mail & Guardian 12.10.01
19. The Citizen 12.6.01
20. The Citizen 22.5.02
Chapter 10 - The Western Cape
1. Business Day 26.7.01
2. Business Day 11.7.01
3,4. Sunday Times 11.8.02
5. Business Day 20.6.03
6,7. Sunday Times 10.11.02
8,9,10. Farmer’s Weekly 18.4.03
11,12. Noseweek. November 2003
13. The Citizen 27.9.02
14. Farmer’s Weekly 2.5.03
15. The Citizen 29.11.03
Chapter 11 - The Northern Cape
1. Mail & Guardian 6.6.03
2,3. Mail & Guardian 22.2.02
4,5,6,7,8,9. Mail & Guardian 6.6.03
10. The Citizen 29.8.02
11. The Citizen 6.3.03
12,13. Volksblad 5.12.03
14,15,16. Business Report 29.6.03
17,18,19. Business Report 20.7.03
20. Mail & Guardian 14.3.03
Chapter 12 - The North West Province
1. LandInfo, Volume 7, No. 2, 2000
2. Farmer’s Weekly 28.11.03
Chapter 13 - The Province of Gauteng
1. Business Day 18.9.02
2. The Citizen 7.7.01
3. Mail & Guardian 6.9.02
4,5. Farmer’s Weekly 11.10.02
6. Business Day 21.1.03
7. Beeld 2.7.03
8. The Citizen 13.2.03
9. Rapport 24.11.96
10,11. Rapport 5.10.03
12. Rapport 21.10.01
13. The Citizen 10.7.01
14. Beeld 20.10.03
15. The Citizen 15.1.03
16. Independent 7.9.03
Chapter 14 - Blydevooruitzicht No More
1. The Citizen 7.2.03
2. The Citizen 16.1.03
Chapter 15 - The Road to Poverty
Section One: ARC
1. Mail & Guardian 3.5.02
2. The Citizen 14.8.03
3. Beeld 13.8.03
4,5. Beeld 25.6.03
6. Landbouweekblad
7. Mail & Guardian 3.5.02
8. Farmer’s Weekly 17.10.03
9. Mail & Guardian 3.5.02
10. Beeld 23.10.03
11. Farmer’s Weekly 17.10.03
Section Two: Municipal Taxes
1. Farmer’s Weekly 26.9.03
2. Farmer’s Weekly 11.10.03
3. The Citizen 8.12 03
4. The Citizen 21.5.02
5. The Citizen 15.5.02
6. Sunday Times 16.12.02
7,8. The Citizen 18.4.02
9. The Citizen 13.11.02
10. The Citizen 5.10.02
11. Business Day 23.7.02
12. Sunday Times 3.3.02
13. Sunday Times 12.1.03
14,15. The Citizen 27.3.03
16. The Citizen 20.3.03
17. The Citizen 3.1.03.
18. Sunday Times 3.8.03
19,20. Mail & Guardian 11.11.03
21. Business Day 4.7.03
22. Sunday Times 3.8.03
23. The Citizen 12.9.02
24. Beeld 6.2.03
25. Sunday Times 23.3.03
26. Business Day 28.8.03
27. Mail & Guardian 14.3.03
28. Rapport 16.11.03
29. The Citizen 14.10.03
30. The Citizen 2.10.03
31. The Citizen 28.3.03
32. The Citizen 26.9.02
33. Rapport 24.11.02
34. Business Day 28.5.03
35. Business Day 9.4.03
Section Three: The Commandos
1,2. Business Day 18.2.03
3,4,5. Business Day 26.5.03
6. Press Release Freedom Front Plus 25.2.03
7. Business Day 19.2.03
8,9. Farmer’s Weekly 21.3.03
10. The Citizen 5.2.02
11,12. The Citizen 24.7.02
13. The Citizen 17.7.02
14,15. The Citizen 7.7.03
16. The Citizen 5.7.03
17,18. The Citizen 27.9.03
19. The Citizen 6.8.03
20. Pretoria Record 3.5.02
21. The Citizen 7.8.03
22. The Citizen 12.9.03
23. Beeld 10.10.03
24. The Citizen 9.9.03
25. www.news24.com 28.10.03
26. Cape Argus 24.10.03
27,28. The Citizen 22.11.02
29. The Citizen 12.12.02
30,31. Business Day 17.4.03
32. The Citizen 15.8.02
33. Pretoria News 7.6.03
34. Pretoria News 20.9.03
35. The Citizen 4.12.03
36,37. Pretoria News 24.7.02
38. The Citizen 10.1.02
39. Sunday Times 6.10.02
40. Business Day 21.5.02
41. The Citizen 3.10.02
42. The Citizen 19.11.03
43. Pretoria News 19.9.03
44. The Citizen 5.3.03
45. Press Release Freedom Front Plus 3.2.03
46. Landbouweekblad 25.7.03
Section Four: Namibia
1. Business Day 3.10.03
2,3. Sunday Times 6.10.02
4. The Citizen 28.8.02
5,6. Mail & Guardian 13.9.02
7,8,9. Mail & Guardian 20.9.02
10. Beeld 5.12.02
11. Die Republikein 9.11.03
12. Namibian 11.11.03
13,14. Namibian 12.10.03
15. Die Republikein 14.11.03
'The Great South African Land Scandal'
ISBN 0-620-31684-5
January 2004, Legacy Publications 2004
Private Bag X122
Centurion 0046
South Africa
Index of Land Redistribution projects visited in South Africa by research
teams which compiled "The Great South African Land Scandal: "
land restitution projects visited: Amount invested by state funds:
acreage:
Agricultural and Rural Development Corporation (ARDC) see p126 R516-million budget: 80% spent on personnel
-- 77 community garden projects: 15 abandoned by 2000 p 126
- Venda homeland farming schemes failed
- In 2000 only 20% of its entire tractor fleet was still running
- ARDC responsible for 285 collapsed projects : p127/8 R23,9m in wages for sisal projects (income was only
R1-million thus far)
Babanango cattle farm - now deserted
Boomplaats - p110 R1,2-million 1,276 ha beef cattle
Boomplaats p111 R5-million 2,750 ha pig farm opened by Mandela
Botshabelo p21 R1,75-m 3,000 ha
Botshabelo application for World Heritage site p33 R1-m
Cala peach orchards, p64 R12-m 500 ha
Farmer Field Salem, Grahamstown: R1,1-million 760ha
Eastern Cape Agricultural turnaround plan: R240-million (Thabo Mbeki statement p73)
Elandskloof citrus farm, Cedarberg, Western Cape: p145 R377-million 332,000 ha 600 evicted people during
apartheid given huge citrus estate
-- Sunday Times: August 2002: "Not many of the families have moved back to Elandskloof."
Forlorn Hope, KZN, see Birkenstock, Johan, p42,
Fort Merensky p30
see Barlow, Arthur,
see Botshabelo
Gillemberg Estate, p132 now managed by Bruboer Group ? 420 ha
Groenfontein Ramohlakane land claim p26 " "
Government admits its failure to monitor farm projects: p147
Giyani Mango project R2-million 500 ha
Gwebo, 3 farms: R4-million 4,000 ha
see Kromellenboog, Eerstepunt, In memoriam, p47 beneficiary: Squatter warlord Jabulani Mdlalose, p49
Hall, H L & Sons, Nelspruit Citrus Estates, R63-million 6000 ha citrus estate to Mdluli clan
- tons of citrus fruit rotting without being harvested
- now under control of private management company which pays tribe R1,5-m lease
Hluhluwe Water Project Dam p52 R11-million
Inyaka/Waterval/Zoeknog coffee estates, Lebowa R6-million 1000 ha R3,2-m turnover in 1996
- invaded by squatters, everything stripped, no coffee grown
Isidingo, Stormberg, Jim Tukani R250,000 240 ha
Kangkwane homeland farms p113 250 ha
Khajadira Farm Limpopo p137 R3,1-million 299 ha citrus farm for 230 families
- tribal leader used their 230 title deeds to buy his own hotel and bottle store:
Klipfontein Dam squatter camp; R40-million
see p50-51 see squatter warlord Mdlalose, Johannes
Kgalagadi Natonal Park San - Khomani San tribe p151 R8-million (?) - 61,000 hectares (why did they pay
for State land?)
-- problems in 2004: per
-- Jan van der Westhuizen, chairman, Khomani San Communcal Property Association)
-- Philipa Holden, ecologist working with the San: "it is incomprehensible that the govenrment hands over property
worth millions of rand sto a community but fails to ensure they ahve the support and -- training to run the farms..." p151
- tribe has no motorised transport but has to manage a 61,000 hectare region
- farm infrastructure has collapsed,
- no livestock because broken water pumps
- game is dead from thirst and poaching,
- tribe lives off pensions from the elderly, in dire poverty
Kromkrans, Hendrina R12-million 2000 ha for 600 families
La Boheme, Tzaneen mango farm R14-million 3000 ha for 3000 land claimants
- no farming being done, farm looted and deserted
Lambasi Project, Lusikisiki, p71 R1,5-billion 2000 ha (profit: R127,000)
Leeupoortjie see Botshabelo) p27 R2-million 428 ha
Levubu Valley, Limpopo (former Venda homeland)
see AgriVen Agricultural Training Centre
see Barotta Fruit Farm p97 R12-million
see Tsianda Fruit Farm p97
see Nwanedi project p97
Lisbon dairy farm beneficiary Kahmbi Tribal authority R12-million 2,000 ha p49
Lisbon Citrus and Mango Estate, Limpopo p125 R45-million largest exporter of Mangoes, bankrupt in
2001
- incurred R20-million loss in 2000
- Boyes management company now leases estate from tribe and exports successfully again
Magwa Tea Estate, Lusikisiki p57 R10,6-million "
Magwa Tea Estate, Lusikisiki p54 R20-million 2,500 ha
Maluleke Land Claim, Kruger Park R21-million 15,000 ha to 1700 families, Timber
ridge
Matumi Botanical Arboretum nursery p15 privately funded by commercial farmer Mike Amm, p1-15 handed to
1400 tribal families
- arboretum no longer exists.
Melkspruit, p70, Aliwal North irrigation project R800,000 859ha
Mpumalanga LRAD programme
- Season-25 Farming Consultants, Michelle Burns, p25/26:
" land programme is a shambles in Mpumalanga"
Mpumalanga Land Bank loans for land redistribution : R476-million Land Bank capital loan for land
redistribution projects raised from IMF
Ncora/Tsomo River Irrigation Scheme (dairies) R19,5-million 5,700 ha
Ncora/Tsomo River Irrigation Scheme (dairies) R10-million "
Nkomazi Irrigation Scheme R37-million cost
Nkomazi Irrigation Scheme R70-million loan from Land Bank to 241 new farmers raised
from IMF
North Pondoland Sugar p58
Northridge, Ceres citrus farm p145 R2-million 1,500 ha, for 148 new owners, Nov
2002 (SundayTimes)
-- placed under provisional liquidation in June 2003, debt: R4,5-m
Paprika Projects Northern Cape, Goodhouse R50-million 550 ha paprika cannot grow in 50
deg C heat
-- Goodhouse is the hottest place in South Africa where temperatures often reach 50 deg C heat
-- Paprika grows successfully at temperatures not exceeding 32 deg C
-- In June 2004, questions were asked by MP N Mack of the ANC, Karoo region, about the failure of these
projects in parliament:
-- See: http://www.pmg.org.za/docs/2004/viewminute.php?id=4055
Pilgrimsrest farm, Steynsburg: p71 R800,000 60 ha
- no farming is taking place
Qamata Irrigation Scheme p62 R8,2-million 3,600 ha
Queenstown: p 64,65
Roodevaal Farm, given to Makotopong tribe R11-million 3,600 ha, R4-m annual turnover
farm, paid R200,000 taxes annually
- now all irrigation equipment destroyed, no farming taking place
- community demands R4-m from government to replace stolen equipment
Rolf Flowers p19 R12-million 100 ha
-- abandoned project
Search for tribal graves on SA farms for land claims: R40-million University of South Africa project
Shiolo Project p63 fruit orchards abandoned R10-million 600 ha
Soekmekaar farm citrus project May 2001 p135 R2,1-million 600 ha, 137 workers got R350,000
Land Bank loan
- granadilla plantation has disappeared, sprinkler system sold off, now about 3 people left on farm
State Land: 45% of al fallow Limpopo land belongs to the State but only 2% is available for redistribution: (p106)
Toekomsrust Smallholders Trust, WC R940,000 30-ha
-- 47 smallholdings - carved up from 30-ha farm Groenfontein
- today farm is inoperative due to overgrazing +R100,000 consultants fees
Thembulethu vegetable farm, George R8-million 23-ha handed to 15 smallholders.
- now inactive, smallholders have all left
Tzaneen, Letsitele Valley, Limpopo Province p1 - R43-million 1,400 ha
Tutu, Trevor, catfish farm breeding project in Karoo p119 R2,7-million 700 ha (2 farms purchased by DLA)
-- no catfish farming is taking place in this desert region, catfish found in every lake and stream of South Africa
for free
Wakkerstroom R270,000 370 ha
Western Cape Agri-WC congress, September 2003:
- Some 80% of all the government's land reform projects for smallholders end up as failures: p-141
Western Cape Agricultural training budget for 2003/4: R24-million funding from European Community
Zebediela Citrus Estate, Limpopo, p122/124 handed over free 2,260ha losing R35-million export
trade a year
Zebediela Citrus Estate, Limpopo, viability study: R300,000 bankrupt in March 2001
- Boyes management company now leases estate from local tribe and exports some citrus again
former commercial farmers, land beneficiaries, politicians:
Amm, Mike, p1
Baleta, Maggie p4
Barlow, Arthur, p30 - Mpumalaganga Heritage Foundation
Birkenstock, Johan, p42, Forlorn Hope, KZN
Birkenstock, Johan, p43, Waterval (rental farm:) see Mdlalose, Jabulani, p38
Birkenstock, Johan, p43, Roodepoort (rental farm) see Mdlalose, Jabulani, p38
Boyes, John - manages Zebedielah citrus estate on 15-year management contract (oct 2003) p129/130
Boyes Group Henley Properties pays R1-m a year to Bjatladi tribe to lease Zebedielah Citrus Estate p131
Cocks, Michele, agricultural researcher, Institute of Social and Economic Research, viciously assaulted, p74
Du Toit, Boetie, p116
-- Blaauwpoort tobacco farm, lost R2,5-m in turnover, told to stop farming by Land Affairs, p116
Farrow, Stuart, p57,
see Sept 19 2002, failure of Magwa Tea Estate, top secret memo
see p68 invasion of Peter Wylie's farm and murderous attack by squatters
Galahitiyawa, Henry, manager of Magwa Tea Estate, p59 life-threatening situation
Gathman, Günther, Kranskop, descended from German missionaries in 1856, lost four family members to armed
attackers.
Greyling, Kerneels p37 see Vryheid
Grundy, Dr Ilsa, University of Stellenbosch agricultural researcher, viciously assaulted, left to die p74
Hanekom, Derek, Agri-minister, p59, promised R11-m to Magwa Tea Estate workers back pay
Hills, Bonnie, Mooifontein p45
Hegeler, Heinrich, Nellie's Rust, p45
Hohls, Edsel, VP, KAN Agricultural Union, p79, on cattle-borne diseased cattle of invading squatters, see Kranskop p77-
79
Hoffman, Stephen, Levubu Valley Farmers'Association p105/106
see Tshiombo Irrigation Scheme, p105 (mangos)
see Mutale river, p1
Holden, Philipa: p151
-- see: Ecologist working with the Khomani San: p151
-- see: court ordered government to appoint a manager for the Khomani-San's farms, but this has not happened (p152)
-- see: Ramakarene, Sugar, p151
McCain farming group, R1,4-m investment in irrigation scheme, Bronkhorstpruit, denied water rights p61
Mamase, Max, Eastern Cape MEC, Magma Tea Estate failure, p56
Scheepers, Koos, Brakspruit, p45
Jaarsveld, van, Steve and Fanie, p44, squatter invasion April 2002, farm attack June 2002
see farm Wanbestuur, p44
see farm Metzelfontein, p45
see Mdlalose, Jabulani, p37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44
see Dunn family
Kotze, Dirk, p43, Palmietfontein, also see Mdlalose, Jabulani: farm attack 6 Feb 2003 p44
Martin, Herman, financial manager, Northbridge farm, Ceres, p148
Mdlalose, Johannes and Jabulani, p38, see Vryheid
Mphele, Richard, Cosatu trade union, p30 see Broodboomkrans, see Palmietfontein, see Roodepoort
Merwe, vd, Bertus, Vryheid, dangerous situation Vryheid-Babanango road, properties invaded, p46
Meyer, Edwin, farm Olifantshoek, 1200 ha, cattle, committed suicide after squatters threats to kill him, p80
see Induna killed by squatters, p80, farm abandoned to squatters
Molapo, Phogiso p9
Mokono, Mashile, land claims commissioner, Limpopo p102
see "production must not be disturbed by land transfers" p101/102
see Agr-Ven p101/103
Motsoaledi, Dr Aaron, Limpopo MEC agriculture, p128:
- see: claims "big five" citrus estates were "a huge success":
- see Zebediela, Gillemberg, Lison, Mutale and Munumzwu
- see Soekmekaar farm citrus project May 2001 p135
- "Multi-million Rand projects collapsed because beneficiaries did not know what to do with the money" :
p138
- "of R1-billion spent in one year no significant outcome could be noticed." p138
Mudau, Jansen, black cash-crop farmer, Levubu Valley, p105 - apprehensive of thieves
Nel, Wessel, DA-MP, p39,
see Vryheid, see Greyling, Kerneels
Onrust, Paul, chairman, Northbridge Farm Community Board, placed under liquidation, p147
Ramakarene, Sugar, p151 -
-- Free State/Northern Cape Commissioner of land affairs:
- "the government knows about the problems the Khomani San people have to run their Kgalagadi National
Park farms:
- "the point of land re distribution is to give the community their land, not run it for them." p151
Ranthla, Miza, ANC chairwoman of CPA, 'farming with pigs at Botshabelo', p34
Redinger, Friedel: "execution by local commuity policing forum members in 1998 directly linked to land dispute
(ISS report)" p83
Roux, le, Bertie, pioneer macadamia farmer, Levubu, p103; p107: created entire macadamia farm industry in South Africa
see: Le Roux's parents hired labour from Malawi, Mozambique in 1940 because there were so few local
people...
Season-25 Farming Consultants, Michelle Burns, p25/26:
-- says LRAD- R50-million land programme is a shambles in Mpumalanga
Singh, Narend, provincial agricultural minister p45, see Mdlalose, Jabulani, p45
Slabbert, Jan, MP, p43, 45Druten p77
Sneddon, Hall Citrus Estates deal, p117,
-- 4200 employees benefit from huge settlement with government -now estate is in ruins
Spears, Peter, poaching on his Hectorspruit near Kangwane homeland has destroyed all wildlife, p117
Surendorff, Manfred, p77
see Ndimande, Sibongiseni Duncan,
see poacher Njabulo Bhengu shot dead on Druten, farm of Manfred Surendorff
Swanepoel, Andre, KZN death threats after trying to stop illegal squatters, p84
Syster, Nicolaas, p145, Northridge Farm, Ceres
Thomas International, private consultants called in to rescue Northridge Farm, Ceres, p146
Titus, Aletta, Elandskloof farm, p144
Tongaat Hulett sugar company withdrew support from Dunn-Zulu families of Mangete, p 89
Trollip, Athol, DA, oct 2003 Magwa tea estate failure, p56
Tooley, Noel, p5
Tutu, Trevor, R2,6-million catfish breeding project - two farms purchased p 89
Westhuizen, Jan van der, p150
-- see: chairman, Khomani San Communcal Property Association (See Kgalagadi - Khoma San tribe p150-151
-- see: Philipa Holden, ecologist working with the San:
"it is incomprehensible that the govenrment hands over property worth millions of rands to a community but fails to
ensure they ahve the support and training to run the farms..." p151
Whissom, Michael, Prof, DA p67 re Grahamstown dairy farmer besieged by squatter army
Williams, Chris, Rural Action Committee director, p117 :
-- Hall Citrus Estate R63-m purchase for Mdluli clan is a "huge settlement" which sets a dangerous
precedent... p117
Wustefield-Jansens, Kevin, consultant for failing Northridge Farm, Ceres, p146. p147, received R3000 a day
Wright, Gavin, partner consultant for failing Northridge Farm, Ceres, p147, received R12,000 a month
Wylie, Peter, p67, under siege by squatter army also see Wisson, Michael, Prof, DA
Wylie, Peter Sr, p68, murdered on farm by squatters
farm names:
Allandale Estate, p125
Boomplaats - p110, 3100 ha, Mpumalanga
see Pretorius, Willem, 17 march 2001 London Daily Telegraph
Berlyn Citrus estate, p125
Broodboomkrans, p30
see Mphele, Richard, p30
Deeside, p64
Drummond, p64
Druten p77
see Ndimande, Sibongiseni Duncan,
see poacher Njabulo Bhengu shot dead on farm of Manfred Surendorff
Eerstepunt, p47 beneficiary: Squatter warlord Jabulani Mdlalose, p49
Elandskloof citrus farm, Cedarberg, Western Cape: p145
Enable p6
Ensam p64
Gillemberg Citrus and Cattle Farm Project, p125
glendale Estate, p125
Groenfontein, see Botshabelo p26
Hectorspruit near Kangwane homeland, poaching destroyed all wildlife, p117/8
In Memoriam, p47 beneficiary: Squatter warlord Jabulani Mdlalose, p49
Kanuna p64
Kangwane homeland farms, p113
Khajadira Farm Limpopo p137
Koffiefontein, p65
Kranskop, p76, farmed by Günther Gathmann, who has lost four family members in armed attacks
Kranskop farms, p76, eleven farmers murdered, farmers committing suicide and vacating farms;
Kranskop farms, 62 farms confiscated for land reform p76
Kromellenboog,p 47 beneficiary: Squatter warlord Jabulani Mdlalose, p49
Kruger National Park -
see: Spears: "wildlife being destroyed by tens of thousands of poachers", p119
Leeupoortjie, see Botshabelo p26
Letsitele Valley farms p2
Lisbon Citrus and Mango Estate, p124
Mamathola-609 p9
Mamathola-635 p6
Mariyeni Estate, p125
Melkspruit, p70, 869 ha, Aliwal North
Merino Rust, p65
Matumi Botanical Garden p15
Metz p6
Mt.Hopley p64
Murlebrook p1 - also see Matatumi Botanical Garden p15
- also see International Dendrology Association p15
Northridge Citrus Farm, Ceres, p145
Olifantshoek, 1200 ha, cattle, farmer Edwin Meyer committed suicide after squatters threats to kill him, p80
Palmietfontein p43
Poplar Grove p64
Roodepoort p43
Saringwa Citrus and Mango Estate, p125
Spes Bona p64
Zebedielah Citrus Estate, p122-125
"Landless People's Warlords undertaking land invasions" and
•"Police refusal to intervene in illegal land invasions of commercial farms:
Agriculture employed 10% of working popuilation throughout South Africa: p140 (oct 2001)
Agriculture employed 17,8% of Limpopo working population, p140 (oct 2001)
Carving up valuable agricultural land to house the poor: p143
Commercial farm land lost to KZN land invaders: 250,000 hectares since 1995: p82
Cost of security for KZN farmers: R60-m a year: p83
Cost of squatter invasions to government: R100-million a year in lost taxes due to besieged/abandoned farms in KZN
De Haas, Mary, ISS Report on Land Invasions, p82, "unstoppable if police do nothing: "
Duminy, Jaco, p 47, Vryheid Farmers' Association, R80,000 restraining order against land invaders p46-47
see Mdlalose, Jabulani, letter to Dept Land Affairs Feb 2003, Othaka Tribal Authority, p47
Dunn, Patricia, descendant of 19th century British KZN chief John Dunn, p86-89,
- see victim of land invaders, Tugela/Mangete land deeded by Zuli King Cetshwayo p87
Failure of Police to act against illegal land invasions crucial to rural violence: ISS report p92
Fourie, Willie, Glen Craig farm, besieged, p68, sold to Department of Land Affairs
Grahamstown, p67: Sept 2003 siege of farmer Peter Wylie by squatter army also see Wisson, Michael, Prof, DA
Greyling, Kerneels p37 see Vryheid
Hills, Bonnie, Mooifontein p45
Hegeler, Heinrich, Nellie's Rust, p45
Hohls, Edsel, VP, KZN Agricultural Union, p79: on cattle-borne diseased cattle of invading squatters,
see Kranskop p77-79.
see Gathmann, Günter, p76-80
Institute of Security Studies: 37 chieftaincies (half-million people) surround 200 farmers"
see Kranskop/Greytown district: p81
Jaarsveld, van, Steve and Fanie, p44, squatter invasion April 2002, farm attack June 2002
see farm Wanbestuur, p44
see farm Metzelfontein, p45
see Mdlalose, Jabulani, p37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44
see Dunn family
Jager, de, Piet, murdered farmer, Levubu, Sept 27 2003 by squatters over land dispute, p98/99
- see government statement "wites stole the land and have no rights", p100
Kangwane homeland farms, p113 250 hectare farm overrun by squatters,
Khathi, Joseph, local KZN warlord called "The Terror", called for "removal of all whites" p84
Kriel, Rev Petrus p100
see "please leave commercial farmers alone", p100
see " if Levubu is given away it will be a squatter camp in five years..."p 100
Lisbon dairy farm see Kahmbi Tribal authority p49
Mangete Land Owners'Assocation - see Dunn, p 88
'we were not white enough for the previous government and not black enough for this one"...
Makhana Council buying farms for squatter occupation p68
Mathaba, warlord terrorising Dunn-Zulu tribes -
see Dunn family p86-90
see Truth and Reconciliation Commission: found to be main leader of murder squads
Mdlalose, Jabulani, p42 see Vryheid,
see Othaka Tribal Authority, p42
see van Jaarsveld, Steve and Fanie, p44
see Greyling, Kerneels, p39
see invasions of farms Wanbestuur, Mooifontein, Brakspruit, Nellie's Rust KZN
Mkize, Gertrude, Farmer's Weekly Feb 2003, "soon all the land will be ours", p81
Mtwa, Felix, Merino Rust, 780 ha funded by USAgency for International Development,Agri-Link p66
Merwe, vd, Bertus, Vryheid, dangerous situation Vryheid-Babanango road, properties invaded, p46
Mooifontein, p49, see Jabulani Mdlalose, p49
Murders: more than 7000 people a year are murdered in KZN, p83
Ndimande, Sibongiseni Duncan, shot dead poacher Njabulo Bhengu on farm of Manfred Surendorff (Druten) p77
Ngubane, Nyango, KZN MEC 'land invasions will nto be tolerated", p81
Numdzivhadi, Dr Henry, Venda historian, p100
see "Venda being stolen blind" p100/100
Olifantshoek, 1200 ha, cattle, farmer Edwin Meyer committed suicide after squatters threats to kill him, p80
Qamata Irrigation Scheme p62
Scheepers, Koos, Brakspruit, p45
Queenstown: p 64
see: farms Deeside, Drummond, Spes Bona, Eensaam, Kanuna, Mt Hopley and Poplar Grove, sheep and cattle farms,
turned into squatter camps
Umbogazi, chief Michael, warlord, rents out land not belonging to him to squatters at R1500 per plot: p91
see Dunn family p91
Venda "being stolen blind" page 100
see Numdzivhadi, Dr Henry, Venda historian,
Verulam, Indian market gardeners targetted by vilence and murder p91
Rural poverty traps: people starving to death on arable land:
Greyling, Kerneels, p37, see Vryheid
Mamase, Max, MEC, Dept of Agriculture's 4000 excess staff,but people starving to death on viable farms, p73
Top soil 3 metres deep in fertile Levubu Valley yet people starving to death on viable farms, p106
Tshriombo Irrigation Sc15/06/2004 's destruction by incompetent farmers who are starving to death on viable farms, p106
Tribes visited which had received land:
Banareng ba ga Letsoalo p11 R4,5-m Letsitele Valley Farms 1,400 ha
Guba/Omdwe tribe: Eastern Cape, p66
Makotopong tribe , Roodpoort p43
Mamathola p2 R4,5-m Lesitele Valley Farms 1,400 ha
Mamathola p6 R5,0-m Metz and Enable farms, 7,000 ha
Mdlalose, p38, see Vryheid 5,000 ha
Othaka Tribal Authority, see Mdlalose, Jabulani, p42
Ramohlakane land claim, Botshabelo p26 R1,75m Groenfontein farm, 600 ha
Ravele /Mphephu Tribal land claims, (Venda) Levubu :
see: 6000 Boers owned large tracts of Levubu from 1871: p108
Rozvi-Karanga (tribe from Zimbabwe) Levubu land claim:
see Louis Trichardt/Makhado, p94
see: Boers owned large tracts of Levubu land from 1871: p108
San - Khomani tribe, Northern Cape:
see: p150 - 36,000 hectares, Kgalagadi National Park
Funding sources:
Food & Agriculture Organisation, UN report Dec 20000 IPTRID, irrigation schemes in Eastern Cape a failure p72
European Community p111 p64 p108, p43, p11, p37
Ford Foundation of America p31 see Botshabelo
Middelburg municipality p33 Botshabelo Fort Merensky Heritage Site
US Agency for International Development -Agri-Link p66
see Mtwa, Felix, Merino Rust, 780 ha funded by Industrial Development Program p33 see Botshabelo
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