Scrap Or Review Ingonyama Trust Act – Presidential Advisory Land Panel

Riyaz Patel

The presidential expert advisory panel on land and agrarian reform has recommended that the Ingonyama Trust Act either be reviewed or repealed. 

The panel recommended that the Ingonyama Trust Act be reviewed or possibly repealed, as the “act has perpetuated the existence of KwaZulu-Natal as a homeland within a unitary state 25 years into a new democratic order.”

The Ingonyama Trust was established in 1994 to be the custodian of 29.67% land that was previously administered by the KwaZulu-Natal government.

Zulu monarch King Goodwill Zwelithini, who is the sole trustee, has previously warned that anyone who touched the Ingonyama Trust was declaring war against the Zulu nation.