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13 July 2006
The Minister for Agriculture and Land Affairs, Ms Lulu Xingwana, cordially
invites the members of the media to a land title deed handover ceremony.
The Elim land claimants who were forcibly removed from their land due to a
racially discriminatory law, the Native Service Contract Act of 1932 lodged
their claim for the land in question before the official cut off date of
December 1998.
More than 40 years after their forced removals in the mid 1960s, the
community of Elim will have their dignity and socio-economic rights restored
following the purchase of a commercial farm as a settlement under the
Restitution of Land Rights Act of 1994(as amended).
The ceremony will be as follows:
Date: 15 July 2006
Time: 10h00
Venue: Elim farm, near Port Shepstone, KwaZulu-Natal province
For more information and transport arrangements please contact:
Solly Phetla
Tel: (012) 312 8112
Cell: 082 577 5668
Sibusiso Dladla
Tel: (033) 355 8400
Cell: 082 827 6036
Issued: Department of Land Affairs
13 July 2006
