LRC no longer acting for Richtervelders

In a speech on his budget vote in Parliament on Thursday, Erwin said that by opposing the agreement, the LRC was trying to ‘snatch defeat from the jaws of victory’. ‘It is a matter of regret that the LRC (which) has done so much to support the community now seeks to derail the settlement against the wishes of the elected leaders,’ he said, according to a report on the IoL site. ‘I am quite certain that their counsel in this case is now ill-advised.’ LRC national director Janet Love said the organisation was bemused by these comments, as the LRC had told the committee of the community\'s representative association that it was withdrawing. This was because the LRC did not want to hold a position different to the community\'s on a settlement it regarded as ‘ill advised and prejudicial’. Nor did it wish to derail the settlement process. She said the LRC was extremely proud of its achievements with the community that included a victory in the Constitutional Court, against ‘obdurate’ opposition by government. Full report on the IoL site