2025 marks 31 years since the adoption of the Restitution of Land Rights Act
2025 marks 31 years since the adoption of the Restitution of Land Rights Act. Over 500 Black and Coloured families that were forcibly evicted from Orania, then known as Groot-ge-waagd by the Apartheid government, want access to their land.
This as the EFF in the Northern Cape is pushing ahead with their fight to dismantle Orania in the Northern Cape. The EFF, which started their onslaught since last month, has now traced and found some families that were paid pittance and forced off their land.
They were removed to allow the completion of the Gariep Dam. Following the construction of the dam, the Water Affairs Department sold the land to Orania’s founder Carel Willem Hendrik.
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