The Deputy Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform, Lechesa Tsenoli cordially invites members of the media to the handing over of R13, 881,100.00 monetary compensation to 254 former residents of Luyolo Village in Simon’s Town.
Payments to beneficiaries will commence on:
Date: Saturday, 2 June 2012
Time: 10h00 to 15h00
Venue: Luyolo Community Hall, NY126, Guguletu – Cape Town
The Luyolo Committee was mandated to facilitate the process of lodgement and settlement of the claim on the 26th of April 1997. The Community then lodged their claim before the cut-off date of 31 December 1998 and the Commission on Restitution of Land Rights started processing the claim.
The original population was composed of African labourers who came to Simon’s Town in 1893 to complete the railway line between Cape Town and Simon’s Town. They lived behind the Royal Navy’s North Battery and the area later became known as Luyolo location. The dispossession of the community took place in July 1965 in terms of the Natives (Urban Areas) Consolidation Act (25 of 1945) as amended in 1952 and 1955.
The community was informed by a letter from the Simon’s Town municipality that accommodation would be available in Guguletu for 30 families and that the single male residence of Luyolo would also be moved to bachelor quarters in Langa and Guguletu.The various restitution options were introduced to the claimants and the 254 individual tenancy claimants accepted the Standard Settlement Offer of R54 650, 00 per claimant family as the full and final settlement of their claims.
Transport from Cape Town to the venue will be provided, therefore Journalists should RSVP before: 31 May 2012, 12H00, to make necessary arrangements.
For RSVP and further information regarding the event kindly contact the following officials:
Franz Zottl:
Tel: 021 486 7400
Cell: 082 418 4625
Tshepo Diale:
Tel: 012 312 8532
Cell: 071 850 1751
Deputy Minister to hand over financial compensation to the former residents of Luyolo Village in Simon’s Town
