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While many members of the Mahikeng community recognize and respect the role of traditional leaders in the ongoing land debate, some are concerned about their treatment of people living on land under their control.
The city of North West Wednesday, where a room full of residents from all political backgrounds shared their views on the need to amend the Constitution to allow the expropriation of land without compensation.
This is part of the public hearings underway following a motion pbaded by EFF in the National Assembly, Committee members, including its chairman Vincent Smith, the chief of the EFF, Julius Malema , and Cope's leader, Mosiuoa Lekota, listened to most members of the community. expropriation without compensation
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However, Puseletso Modise, the coordinator of the Northwestern Federation of Trade Unions, wanted the government to nationalize all lands, including lands under traditional leadership, such as the controversial Ingonyama Trust
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Recently, Zulu king Goodwill Zwelithini held an imbizo to discuss the issue – a gesture that some have described as a demonstration of strength and war. Leaders also moved quickly to alleviate all the concerns of traditional leaders over the land issue.
But that is the sad plea of Charlotte Bokgosi from the village of Makgobistad that has caught the attention of some. She urged the committee not to make traditional chiefs of land keepers in the country.
"Traditional leaders make us suffer," she said, as members of the public supported her and encouraged her to continue
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Outside the room, she told News24 that people living on tribal lands would be in "trouble" if the chiefs and traditional leaders "They want to do things for themselves, to eat alone, they do not have the interests of their communities at heart, "said Bokgosi.
She said that the country's leaders did not understand the levels of oppression experienced by people living on tribal lands.
Hearings continue Thursday at Jozini in KwaZulu-Natal and Rustenburg in the Northwest. [ad_2]
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