District Six Working Committee says it doesn't agree with DA’s Expropriation Act court challenge
Though the DA has filed papers in court to challenge the newly signed law, a local NGO is adamant it will help District Six land claimants with their dream to go back home.
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CAPE TOWN - The Democratic Alliance (DA) believes the Expropriation Act is unconstitutional.
It has filed papers in court to challenge the newly signed law.
However, a local NGO is adamant it will help District Six land claimants with their dream to go back home.
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The District Six Working Committee has been lobbying for restitution for former residents.
It’s been helping them process their land claims for the last 12 years.
It believes the Expropriation Act will help those who were forcibly removed from the area in the late 1960s with their plight.
Committee director, Nazeem Sydow, said that while they feel in some cases compensation shouldn’t be offered to landowners, they don’t agree with the DA’s decision to legally challenge the new law.
"CPUT [Cape Peninsula University of Technology] took up half of District Six. Then there were private developments under the DA, under the ANC [African National Congress], parcels of land were sold off."
Sydow said that after large portions of land were taken during the apartheid era, not all of the land or homes had been returned to their original owners.