MPs recommend settlement be managed by departments of public works and co-operative governance & traditional affairs
The department of forestry, fisheries & the environment has officially bowed out of managing a Khoisan settlement named Knoflokskraal in Grabouw, Western Cape.on the occupation of the 1,800ha piece of land in June 2022. The original occupiers, who moved onto the land in 2020, planned to establish a self-sustaining Khoisan community.
In October 2022, the then public works minister, Patricia de Lille, told MPs the department had spent R3m on Knoflokskraal, including legal fees and sheriff’s costs in a bid to evict the occupiers. According to the department’s report, the land has become “unsalvageable” for future forestry purposes and there has been “irreversible damage to the plantations”.
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