AGRICULTURAL NEWS - Leaders in both national and provincial government spheres have stepped in to try to resolve ongoing conflicts within two separate KwaZulu-Natal communities over agricultural land acquired through the land restitution programme.
Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development, Thoko Didiza, told Farmer’s Weekly via email that she recently visited the Mathulini Communal Property Association (CPA) in KwaZulu-Natal’s Umzumbe area, after concerned members of the community requested the minister’s urgent intervention to resolve a violent dispute within the CPA.
In early July, a manager of one of the Mathulini CPA’s 7 500ha of farms, which the community successfully claimed through the land restitution programme, was thrown into a fire by four unknown assailants.
