Zulu Nation Determined to claim more South African Land

The Zulu Nation wants more land and plans to launch massive land claim. 

In a speech to Parliament, Jacob Zuma said, “We shall dismantle the apartheid landscape, which dictated where people should live and work on the basis of the color of their skin. To this day, we are still working to reverse this legacy, hence the review of the ‘willing buyer, willing seller’ principle in order to accelerate the equitable distribution of land. You will recall as well that the education system was also used as an instrument to ensure perpetual subjugation as stated by Hendrik Verwoerd…’ 

Therefore, his plan is now in action, the Zulu Nation wants all the land. Tribal leaders and the Zulu king are planning to submit an extensive land claim. Their claim will include land in Eastern Cape, Free State and Mpumalanga. Their claim will include land taken from the year 1838 onwards, although legislation states that land claims from 1913 are only permitted. 

The Province of Kwa-Zulu Natal is almost the same size as Portugal and measures 57,228 square miles. The Ingonyama Trust administered by the Zulu King and eight members of the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform own thirty two percent of the area. The trustees are responsible for the land record and manage the mineral rights of the region.

The Ingonyama Trust will eventually be the beneficiary of the upgrades to Nkandla as the land held by a trust cannot be sold. Jacob Zuma can be forced off the land if the trust decides that he no longer needs to live there. The land according to the trust is communally owned, and the legislation set up in the trust was to be remedied by the Communal Lands Act. An Act providing for traditional land to be transferred to its occupants and in 2010, this was declared unconstitutional. At that time, this process was placed on hold. The leases for the land can be registered at the deeds office and then sold to its occupants. Presently Jacob Zuma does not have a title deed registered in his name at the deeds office.

The trust is excluded from paying over taxes to the local municipality and officials have studied a Supreme Court Appeal (SCA), prior to 2005 ruling, which barred it from collecting rates from the Ingonyama Trust. The trust is considered state property under this former ruling and exempt from taxes.

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Controversial Nkandla Jacob Zuma and the History of Its Owner

Land claims are needed Nkandla is expanding rapidly 

A Google earth view of Nkandla taken in 2006 shows the barren land with a few buildings. Jacob Zuma was during this time the Deputy President under the reign of Thabo Mbeki.

The private residence of Jacob Zuma is situated on land owned by the Ingonyama Trust, the legal entity that owns the traditional land and administered by the Zulu King, Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu, on behalf of the state for the benefit, material welfare and social well-being of the Zulu nation.

A Google Earth view of Nkandla during 2010 when Jacob Zuma was the president of South Africa shows a considerable increase in structure to the property.

The 2013 Google Earth view of Nkandla shows the extensive growth and development to Nkandla.

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