Riyaz Patel
Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini has once again dismissed recommendations of the high-level panel appointed by Parliament to review legislation on land reform that the Ingonyama Trust either be reviewed or repealed.
He is the sole trustee of the Trust which administers more than 2.8 million hectares of land in KwaZulu-Natal, set up on the eve of the 1994 elections to ensure the participation of Zwelithini and the IFP in the first democratic elections.
The presidential advisory panel on land and agrarian reform recommended on July 29 that the Ingonyama Trust Act be reviewed or possibly repealed, as the “act has perpetuated the existence of KwaZulu-Natal as a homeland within a unitary state 25 years into a new democratic order.”
King Zwelithini told a large group of women during the Umkhosi Wesivivane in KwaNongoma, in the north of KwaZulu-Natal Saturday that he was still waiting for a member of
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