Imogen Vollenhoven
3 November 2012
Former residents of District Six may be
able to start returning to their suburb, flattened four decades ago by
apartheid bulldozers, land reform minister said today.
Speaking to reporters in Cape Town
Today’s meeting the third the minister has
held this year with claimants is set to get a report-back from two task teams.
The one is the so-called technical group, the other a social integration
team.
In February 2013 another
meeting will take place where they will elect a vehicle - a trust or company or
special purpose vehicle, whatever claimants want that is in order to start
working. That is the given deadline given to the task force by the Minister.
There were 1060 District 6
claimants.
We want matters to be
concluded. Those who want to go back to District Six must go back to District Six
said the Minister
Those who want to be
compensated should either go back, or get financial compensation or alternative
land Nkwinti said a number of claimants had indicated that they wanted compensation, rather than to return to District Six.
He did not indicate how
many of the claimants wanted compensation. Government had budgeted for this,
but it would not release money until claimants had proper legal
representatives.
There is a budget of R700
million for this year and next year. Monies are available but it is not going
to be released until a legitimate structure is put in place.
The city and the province said
it is ready for the February deadline.
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