Concerns over people posing to be trustees of Ndabeni

By Marthe van der Wolf
12 October 2007

The Regional Land Claims Commission (RLCC) and the City of Cape Town have expressed concern about the allegations that people are posing as trustees of the Ndabeni Communal Property Trust. They are seeking to sell Trust land at Wingfield near the N1 highway.

In 1933, black residents of Ndabeni had been forcibly removed to Langa. In 2001, an agreement was reached whereby 54.8 hectares of government-owned land at the Wingfield military base would be handed over to the people who were forcibly removed and their descendants.

"The City spent R29 million to improve the bulk stormwater, sewer and electrical infrastructure," says the City’s Manager of Land Restitution Pogiso Molapo.

The Regional Land Claims Commissioner and some claimants have asked the South African Police Service and the Scorpions to investigate the allegations of corruption.

The RLCC has already announced that it will seek the intervention of the High Court in Cape Town to prevent people from posing as trustees and selling land that is not theirs to sell.