Landless demand land

Michelle Avenant

12 July 2012

Retrenched forestry workers from isolated forestry towns in the Western Cape mountain areas marched to parliament today in protest of what they deemed their “continued oppression, poverty, discrimination, hunger, landlessness and homelessness”.

The protestors demanded they be afforded with land on which to live and farm.

Many members of these communities face possible eviction from their homes, as their living areas are targeted for nature conservation, tourism or recreation.

The march was co-ordinated by the Agrarian Reform for Food Sovereignty Campaign and by the Forestry Communities in the Western Cape.