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10/17/2004:

"Not my responsibility - farmer"

By Kenneth Chikanga

Benoni farmer Braam Duvenhage does not believe that his Modderklip farm in the Ekurhuleni unicity should be a test case for land reform and restitution in South Africa.

After all, recent media reports say that since the turn of democracy in 1994, South Africa is dealing with at least 27 000 land claims, of which 9 000 are complex rural claims.

Most of them are complicated by history, apartheid-era legislation, ancestry and land ownership, modern agricultural and environment needs, sustainability and future (re)settlement patterns.

Yet at 72, Duvenhage wants to see justice done, even though he has retired in Bela Bela.

Full Article : busrep.co.za