The invasion of Foroma farm comes among other indications that the Tenbosch project, the government’s showcase land restitution project, is beginning to fall apart.
SHOOT: This isn't just a sensational headline. Does anyone really believe that if SA's political leaders did nothing to arrest lawlessness in neighboring Zimbabwe that those ideas would not catch on here (which was perhaps the point).
DISGRUNTLED land-reform beneficiaries have invaded a farm near Malelane in Mpumalanga, ousting its managers and assuming control of the farm workers and the running of the farm. The 3200ha farm, Foroma, is part of Tenbosch, a R10bn land-restitution project, SA’s biggest by value. It is one of several farms handed back to four communities who lost their land under apartheid legislation since 1923.
Agribusiness Umlimi, which controls the joint-venture farm management company Makhombo for the Lugedlane community, has confirmed the land invasion, saying a group of people armed with knives and machetes arrived on Foroma last Thursday, threatened managers and seized control of the farm.
In Tenbosch, farming had slowed down on some of the farms.
Others had been abandoned by its previous white owners after the Land Claims Commission published the claim. By the time Tenbosch was handed over to the community many farms were no longer in production.
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