David Rakgase says he agreed to buy the land under the government’s discontinued Land Redistribution for Agricultural Development programme in 2002
David Rakgase says he agreed to buy the land under the discontinued Land Redistribution for Agricultural Development programme in 2002An elderly Limpopo farmer who has gone to court to fight for a farm he says the government promised him nearly two decades ago has described the land reform process he was put through as “a cruel and shameful fraud”.
“I respectfully submit that it is frankly absurd for the minister [of land reform & rural development] to offer a 30-year lease to a man who is now 78-years-old,” he said. Acting director-general of the department of land reform & rural development Rendani Sadiki has admitted that the head of the Limpopo department of agriculture did offer to sell Rakgase the farm he had been leasing from the state since the early 1990s under that programme, but says the head “was not authorised to do so”.
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