Court boots out 1 500 from farm

The Ministry of Lands and Rural settlement bungled the allocation of land to Kingsdale Housing Cooperative in Norton, a move which has led to the eviction of more than 1 500 families through an order by the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) yesterday.

The families, some of whom have constructed permanent houses on the 161 hectares of the disputed land, have been given 30-days to vacate the property which the court ruled had been allocated to them illegally by the ministry.

The land in question is owned by one Peter Nicholas Neil who was cited as the applicant in the matter.

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