Press Statements

Statement on opening the land claims process - 12 May 2011.

12 May 2011

The Association for Rural Advancement (AFRA) supports the demands of South Africa’s landless people for the land claims process to be re-opened, and supports the suggestion that this process should include restitution of land lost prior to 1913.

However, AFRA condemns, in the strong possible terms, the manner in which this issue has been handled thus far, creating unnecessary confusion, and raising and then dashing expectations. Read more
Statement on National Farm Workers Summit. 5 August 2010.

The Association For Rural Advancement (AFRA) backs the position by the KwaZulu-Natal Agricultural Union (KwaNalu) that various stakeholders have raised concerns about the national Farm Workers Summit process. As an organization we have become wary of the many summits which have been held but there has been poor implementation of the resolutions thereafter. Read more .
Statement on the Constitutional Judgement of CLARA. 14 May 2010.

Monday’s Constitutional Court judgement declaring the whole of the Communal Land Rights Act (CLARA) invalid is important because the highest court in the land rejected this legislation as having been passed by a procedurally faulty process. Previously the High court had only declared certain clauses in the Act unconstitutional. Read more

Statement on Farm Killings . 8 April 2010. Read more

Statement on the delay in settling land restitution claims and suspension of land reform officials in the Ladysmith District on allegations of corruption . 25 March 2010. Read more

Statement on Kennedy Road Informal Settlement - 30 September 2009. Read more

Newcastle judgement regarding Kubheka burial dispute 30 January 2008 . Read more

Landless Farm Dwellers to March for Access to Justice - 13 March 2008

The Association For Rural Advancement fully supports the protest march organized by the landless farm dwellers in uThukela District. We applaud their decision to take to the street to highlight their neglect by government in respect of still being denied many socio-political and economic rights on farms in the uThukela area in particular and in KZN general. This form of protest is a significant part of the process of claiming citizenship rights by farm dwellers, in particular their rights of access to justice. For too long farm dwellers have been the forgotten citizens. Read more

Successful and peaceful land reform and secure land rights for all requires an affordable and accessible justice system for all! - 31 January 2008

AFRA and its partners will be shutting down its legal service cluster partnership and referring all new clients to the relevant state departments as of February 2008. AFRA, in consultation with farm dweller formations across the province of KZN, is no longer willing to allow the state to shirk its legal duty. We are no longer willing to provide the state with an excuse not to provide such a service themselves. We are no longer willing nor able to foot the bill of providing a legal service that the state must provide. Read more
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Newcastle judgement regarding Kubheka burial dispute 30 January 2008

AFRA is compelled to reject Magistrate A.J. Hill’s judgment on the farm burial dispute between John Joseph Kubheka’s family and Mr J.D. Swart, of Donkerhoek farm. This judgement, which finds in favour of Mr Swart, as the landowner, is a classic example of the flawed legal system that poor and vulnerable South African citizens are forced negotiate to assert their new found citizenship rights. Read more...
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