‘That was all lies’: Family land ends up in the ‘wrong hands’

08 April 2019 - 07:00
By BONGANI FUZILE
Nobakhe Mila speaks at a land claim meeting in Upper Mngqesha, KZN.
Image: Michael Pinyana Nobakhe Mila speaks at a land claim meeting in Upper Mngqesha, KZN.

A KwaZulu-Natal land claimant is seething, saying a piece of land he claimed from the government – which includes a number of farms in the towns of Dundee, Vryheid, Newcastle, Utrecht, Nqutu, Dannhauser and Dumbe – ended up in the “wrong hands”. 

Mzobanzi Ngema, from Newcastle, said his family, whose claim from the late 1990s was approved, got nothing while other people who were not the Ngemas – and who were not born there – appeared on the list of beneficiaries.