SANDILE MOTHA
THE Ingonyama Trust has again come under scrutiny, this time for alleged brazen disregard of the land ownership rights of rural women.
During the first parliamentary instalment of the public hearings on the Land Tenure Rights Amendment Bill (B6 – 2020) last week, it emerged that rural women continue to be victims of land deprivation by their traditional leadership councils.
“The committee so far has heard that African women were excluded from the right to ownership of their homes and land as the Customary Marriages Act only recognised a man as the head of the household and the rightful owner of land and property,” explained Mandla Mandela, the Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Agriculture, Land and Rural Development.
Women’s rights and aid organisations also submitted to the Portfolio Committee that Ingonyama Trust Board (ITB) was the worst culprit disregarding women ownership rights.
Sizani Ngubane, veteran land
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