Our favourite red-beret-wearing, statue-trashing political party has warned Cape Town of upcoming land grabs. If there is any merit to what they are warning, here is what you need to know.
Yesterday a mass land invasion took place in Khayelitsha, during which hundreds occupied vacant land, laying claim to privately owned property.
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#LandInvasion Hundreds illegally invade vacant, but privately owned, property in Khayelitsha. SS @4everSiya pic.twitter.com/weSj0rXPuL
— EWN Reporter (@ewnreporter) April 7, 2015
So what does this ‘occupation’ mean exactly? In this context, it is the act of invading land for the purpose of residency. Areas such as Camps Bay, Bishopscourt and Rondebosch Common have been threatened with upcoming invasions by EFF-supporting, backyard dwellers.
How a political party (that wants to be taken seriously) can condone such acts is laughable.
Nazier Paulsen, Western Cape representative of the EFF, was quoted saying, ‘I did just what Jan van Riebeeck did – he invaded the land, I occupied it’.
Well, that was over 350 years ago and the world, along with its laws, has changed. Look what happened to Germany and their land invasions of last century – ultimately it didn’t work out too well for them. We simply cannot compare an act hundreds of years old to justify a cause – there are civil ways and means of reaching a compromise in this situation. A lot of bad things have happened in our civilisation’s history but instead of pursuing an ‘eye for eye’ mentality, we should learn from mistakes and move forward.
The impoverished backyard dwellers desperately need land and there is undoubtedly enough land in the Western Cape to be given. WesCape anyone?
Photography EWN
CapeTownEtc it’s not about what happened 350 years ago; but trying to make right the 350 years of minority rule and abuse of non-whites
That was a waste of a minutes read…
Unbelievable these people think they can just take other people’s property wtf man!!!!
Very misleading title “What you need to know”
what these people are doing is right, u people are colonial minds who disagree and are a thorn to the struggling masses, clearly u are not conscious enough to realise the oppression these people face the whole system we are living in is a fraud, u have a nerve to disagree with these people, surely your level of humanity is low. the white man should be chased out of sa and all his monuments removed including the castle in cape town
Wow, that was a misleading, thinly veiled attempt of incitement posing as an informative piece from Cape Town Etc.
no law and order look at the example
Waste! They breaking the law….. simple! I’m all for giving these people land, but they can not go about it illegally, but then again who is going to stop them as our government is corrupt and they fuel this fire…….
Get a private security company and remove them #whatwouldjanvanriebeeckhavedone
Give them land but we must buy it?
What nonsense…
If we all work for what we want/need this country would be in a better state. If you want to give handouts do it at a children’s home & not the loafers on the street.
The natives are getting restless
WHO IS GOING TO GIVE ALL THOSE PEOPLE WORK. tHEY ARE TAKEN AWAY FROM THEIR HOMES IN mPUMELANGA AND eASTERN CAPE AND WILL DEMAND HOUSES FROM DA LIKE THEY DEMANDED TOYLETS.. THE GOVERBNENT MUST TAKE THOSE LEADERS TO TASK. IF ANC AND EFF IS ON THE SAME PAGE THEN DA WILL HAVE TO TAKE EFF TO HIGH COURT.
Law and order is desperately needed.
Stop using rubber bullets…time to sort these militant rubbishes out!
There were the German national socialists, but Paulsen is ‘Nazier’ than them.