A land grab on the fringes of a plush Ballito estate on the KwaZulu-Natal north coast has been halted‚ turning away many disappointed new prospective “owners”‚ some of whom had arrived in luxury German cars to stake their claim.
The upmarket Palm Lakes Estate‚ nestled in the coastal hamlet‚ was surrounded by land now subject to claim – with plots of prime real estate let go for a bargain of R50 and a bottle of booze.
Across the hillscape – with the borderline of the estate in sight – plots had been squared off with some hopeful new land owners already starting to clear the vegetation.
And while estate management moved to allay the fears of their well-heeled homeowners‚ whose multimillion-rand properties sit across a single fence‚ the situation on the ground was relatively calm on Thursday.
The latest land grab reports came as Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema told editors on Thursday that land expropriation without compensation would include land on which bonded houses had been built.
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