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KHOISAN STAND FIRM IN FIGHT FOR RECOGNITION AND LAND JUSTICE
Khoisan protest for land rights in Strandfontein LAUREN O’CONNOR-MAY
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Michael van Rooyen burns hotnotsgooigoed (Sage) in a firepit inside a sacred hut which the Khoisan community says the City later tore down.
he Khoisan community protested outside the Lentegeur administrative offices last week. The protest was in response to the High Court ruling preventing further occupations on erfs 1212, 1213, 1215 and 21168, four of which are in Strandfontein and one in Khayelitsha. The court's ruling prohibits the group from building any more structures on the properties, but it did not give the City licence to evict. "This order shall not be construed as an eviction order," the ruling said. "It shall not entitle the City to demolish any occupied structures at the date of this order or to use the provisions of this order for purposes of evicting occupiers from the property." The City says that there are plans for 750 free housing units, a mixed-use development, sewerage
“Our people have lived in harmony with this land for generations ...” - Memorandum infrastructure and nature reserves on the occupied land. "Portions of these sites have been unlawfully occupied by several dozen people since 2022, and the interdict allows the City to prevent further unlawful occupation of the sites. This court protection is needed due to attempts to incite a coordinated intrusion of these sites in the past," the City said in a statement. ANCESTRAL CLAIM The Khoisan community, however, says they have an ancestral claim to the land because evidence of two historical kraals was discovered at Strandfontein Pavilion.
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Furthermore, the first respondent in the case, Michael van Rooyen, said the fight is about more than just land. "They made the world believe that we are non-existent. Meanwhile we've never changed. They changed our name. You see that is what our struggle is about. We want our identity back," he said in an interview with TygerBurger. MEMORANDUM The memorandum delivered to the Lentegeur municipal offices on Friday, 7 November, stated: "We, the Strandfontein Aboriginal Khoisan Kraal, do not seek confrontation but justice, recognition and restoration. Our people have lived in harmony with this land for generations, and we remain committed to preserving its ecological and cultural integrity for future generations. TO PAGE 3
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