Labour tenant action could set precedent
Publish date: 15 May 2007
Issue Number: 1824
Diary: Legalbrief Today
Category: Land claims
In what is seen as a ground-breaking case, an 83-year old woman, who is fighting for a piece of land on a Lions River farm she claims is rightfully hers, will argue her case when the Land Claims Court sits in Durban today.
Florence Zondi wants to be declared a labour tenant of the farm Shayamoya, near Nottingham Road in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands. If successful, she will be able to lodge a land claim against the portion of the farm in which she has been living. Her lawyer, Musa Ndlovu, of Durbans Legal Resources Centre, said this would pave the way for other claims from similarly situated, elderly farm tenants as this was the first case of its kind to come before the court. However, the owner of the farm, George Duncan Anderson, is opposing her action. Full report in The Mercury (subscription needed)
