Die skokkende besef dat die banke gaan weier om finansiering te verskaf op eiendom waarop ‘n grondeis hangende is en die effek wat dit op die koop, verkoop en verbandlenings gaan hê, het soos ‘n donker wolk oor inwoners van Pretoria toegesak.
Die gelatenheid van blankes oor die gebeure wat gevolg het op F.W. de Klerk se “rooi Vrydag” aankondiging dat hy Suid Afrika gaan uitverkoop, se gevolge is nou vinnig besig om gestalte te kry in die vorm van totale verslaentheid.
Die towerwoorde wat mense “gemesmeraais” het om te glo dat die NP nooit die Afrikanervolk sal uitverkoop nie, naamlik détente, konsensus en onderhandeling realiseer nou in die werklike en tasbare betekenis van die bedoeling daarvan. Uiteindelik sal dit uitloop op onteiening sonder vergoeding wat kennelik meer as net plaasgrond in die oog het. Kyk veral na die ontstaan van die woord detente wat John Vorster so graag gebruik het: “Détente (French pronunciation: [detɑ̃t], meaning "relaxation") is the easing of strained relations, especially in a political situation.
The term is often used in reference to the general easing of the geo-political tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States which began in 1969, as a foreign policy of U.S. presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford called détente; a "thawing out" or "un-freezing" at a period roughly in the middle of the Cold War. Détente was known in Russian as разрядка ("razryadka", loosely meaning "relaxation of tension").
The period was characterized by the signing of treaties such as the non SALT I and the Helsinki Accords. A second Arms-Limitation Treaty, SALT II, was discussed but never ratified by the United States. There is still ongoing debate amongst historians as to how successful the détente period was in achieving peace.
Noudat dit duidelik is dat ons land en waarskynlik ons totale besit onder ons uit onderhandel word, sal hierdie gebeurtenis in Pretoria aanduidend wees of Afrikaners bymekaar wil kom in verset teen die oorlog sonder koeëls. Die aanslag wat nou met grofgeskut begin, vereis dat leiers wat nog wil onderhandel en saamwerk om die NSA te laat werk, in die pad gesteek moet word of self in die pad gesteek te word met geen heenkome of vooruitsig nie!
Pretoria land claims hit home
March 9 2015 at 10:40am
By Kennedy Mudzuli
PRETORIA NEWS Chief Victor Velaphi Lekhuleni, of Bakgatla Ba Lekhuleni, who is claiming large tracts of land in Pretoria. File picture: Phill Magakoe
Pretoria - The reality of their land being subject to a land claim has hit home for residents of Pretoria’s northern and eastern suburbs – they have been warned that they cannot sell or develop their properties without informing the Commission on Restitution of Land Rights and of banks unwilling to give finance.
Properties in areas forming part of the Velaphi Victor Lekhuleni land claim may not be sold, exchanged, donated, leased, subdivided, rezoned or developed without one month’s written notice to the Commission on Restitution of Land Rights.
Where no notice is given, the Land Claims Court may order that such work be set aside, restitution adviser Nonqaba Mehlomakulu told a stakeholders’ meeting at the St Georges Hotel in Irene on Saturday.
In instances where work or other activities were already in process, it could continue without notifying the commission.
Mehlomakulu said the commission was empowered to approach the court to set aside deals which would defeat the purpose of the act. The legislation seeks restoration of land rights, unless public interest considerations dictate otherwise.
“Owners are only required to give 30 days’ written notice to the commission and not to obtain its approval,” she said, as the harsh reality of the land claim eventually hit home.
Deputy regional land claims commissioner Thami Mdontshwa said the commission was aware of these unintended consequences of the process.
“There are banks that refuse to finance applications for properties in claimed areas. We are engaging with the relevant structures to have this overturned.
It is unlikely that the court could order restitution on developed land as this would cause a social disruption. The court could order restitution of undeveloped properties, unless public interest dictates otherwise.”
Broadly, the claimed area as published in the Government Gazette affects the Moot, Môregloed, East Lynne, Eersterus, Mamelodi, Mahube Valley, Koedoespoort, Silverton, Botanical Gardens, Meyerspark, Brummeria, CSIR, La Montagne, Die Wilgers, Lynnwood, Murrayfield, Wapadrand and Silver Lakes.
Lekhuleni, claiming to be the chief of Bakgatla Ba Lekhuleni, wants the land returned to his people, who he alleged were forcefully removed by the apartheid government between 1958 and 1960.
But his claim to royalty has been disputed by the community and Lekhuleni royal family, who described him as their distant cousin with no right to the throne nor to demand land on their behalf.
At the meeting on Saturday, the Lekhuleni royal family and the Tshwane royal house suggested the matter be set aside pending an investigation into the claimant’s royal credentials. The Lekhulenis have claimed the same Pretoria east and north land, while the Tshwane community wants a stretch between Fountains Valley and Wonderboompoort, including the Union Buildings and the entire city centre.
The Tshwane claim was turned down as it did not meet the provisions of the act requiring claimants to have been dispossessed of land after June 19, 1913 as a result of racially discriminatory laws of the past regime. The royal house said it would pursue the claim.
However, Mdontshwa said chieftainships were the functions of other organs of government and not part of the mandate of the commission. He warned that lodging a false land claim was a criminal offence, and carried the same punishment as fraud.
Mdontshwa said the commission had appointed a researcher, Dr AT Fisher, to conduct a further investigation of the claim. The investigation should be completed by June 1.
Fisher will look into which government department or institution was responsible for the dispossession of the land as well as the nature of the right to the land.
Mdontshwa said the investigation would also look at whether there was ever a community known as Bakgatla Ba Lekhuleni. The royal family claim the community never existed. The commission shall consider the report of the investigation of the claim as well as representation of other parties.
If the commission is of the view that the claim is precluded from the act, it will ask the claimant for representation before a final decision is made. In the event that the claim is valid, the commission will inform all stakeholders before moving to the negotiation stage.
The matter will be referred to court should there be no agreement of settlement.
Mdontshwa said the commission had originally rejected the claim when it was first lodged in 1996 and was attending to it in accordance with a judgment by the Land Claims Court.
The court, although not validating the claim, ruled there was a 1 percent arguable case and instructed the commission to gazette it. This was done in December last year and February this year. “We are in a predicament in that all the work that should be done on this claim had not been completed before it was gazetted. We had to act as instructed by the court,” he said.