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Natal farmers won court case against state dispute regarding to what should be fair and equitable remuneration for highly productive agricultural land

Posted on September 25, 2019 Leave a comment

A 13-year court battle gave 20 farmers (willing sellers) a fair price for their land offered to the state. The claims were initially set at about 42 000 ha. Landowners offered some 9,000 ha of highly productive agricultural land to the state to settle the claim.

The government had to admit that the Valuer-General wanted to buy the farms from the farmers for almost half their value. The landowners of Melmoth in Natal entered into an agreement with the Department of Land Reform whereby they would voluntarily make land available to the government. The deal would mean R761m for the farmers.

The government has repeatedly decided that the Valuer-General’s assistance should be called and according to a “government formula” they calculated that the farmers were entitled to only R420 million.

Last week, the government abandoned the fight to use the formula. According to Attorney Bertus van der Merwe, who represented the farmers
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Public Protector is being sued for R350 000 – this while she’s still unable to pay the previous claims

Posted on September 10, 2019 Leave a comment

A complainant who allegedly approached the Public Protector, Busisiwe Mkhwebane, about an incident 10 years ago now wants to file a claim of R350,000 against her because she was unwilling to investigate the matter.

The complainant allegedly made a case against a senior member of the Limpopo Office of the Public Protector, and won the case.
The complainant, one Nchaube Peter Seabi, alleges that the head of the OB office in the northern province, Hamilton Samuel, insulted in the OB office in 2011 but that the Public Protector refused to investigate the matter.

However, the matter is quite confused, and whether the complainant can be a strong case against the PP will learn the time.

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Governor of SA Reserve Bank sues ANC councilor for R500,000 after banned “k-word”

Posted on August 15, 2019 Leave a comment

As if no other amount is good enough, another R500,000 claim is made, this time the Reserve Bank boss against a board member.

Lesetja Kganyago, Governor of the South African Reserve Bank, is now suing Port Elizabeth councilor Andile Lungisa.

The claim against Lungisa comes after he had made statements on the social network about the nationalization of the Reserve Bank and then simply thrown in the banned “K-word”.

The governor noted with dismay the toxic statement and decided to settle the case in court with a R500,000 claim against the councilor concerned.

Lesetja Kganyago was also portrayed as a “lackey of the racist people”, probably referring to the whites as the racists.

Lungisa later confirmed that he had received a subpoena, and that he would oppose the claim in court.

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SAA pay Comair R1,1 billion, where does the bankrupt state entity get the money from?

Posted on February 18, 2019 Leave a comment

SAA conceded that it had violated the Competition Act and announced that it would pay R1,1 billion to Comair.

The dispute has been in existence for a period of 10 years after SAA’s travel agents operated bonus schemes.

The bonus systems were against the rules of the Competition Council, and Comair has set a claim against SA Airways for losses.

Observers have noted that they are not sure where the bankrupt entities will get the money since minister Pravin Gordhan does not show much sympathy towards the state airline

Read the original article in Afrikaans on Die Vryburger
This report does not necessarily reflects the opinion of SA-news.

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