VIDEO: Court on development

Developers and the state alike are failing to either deliberately ascertain or confirm customary landowners before proceeding with their activities on customary owned land.

What is happening in most cases is that, rather than taking this important crucial step, they are, choosing to and dealing with persons who claim to be landowners when in fact, they may not be the true and correct landowners.

This was highlighted by a three-man Supreme Court bench recently when handing down a ruling on an appeal involving customary land owners of Abau in the Central province and a logging company.

 

Sally Pokiton with more 

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Sally Pokiton