“We are not shaken and we are not scared because we are taking what belongs to us or what was stolen from us,” Mr Collen Sedibe, EFF provincial chairman, said.
This statement was made after the Democratic Alliance (DA) accused Sedibe of encouraging people to occupy land illegally across the province.
According to the DA it was alleged that Sedibe encouraged community members to occupy land illegally in places such as Waterval Boven, Delmas and Bethal Extension 5.
Lowvelder earlier reported on these illegal land grabs in Waterval Boven.
The DA furthermore stated that Sedibe also allegedly said the EFF was in the process of identifying more land for community members to occupy under the guise of it being vacant.
“We strongly condemn the EFF in Mpumalanga’s opportunistic exploitation of our people’s desperate need for land and the government’s failure to deliver on housing,” said the DA.
Sedibe insisted that its occupation programme, however, could not be described as an illegal land grab. “As the EFF we have not grabbed any land from anyone but we have occupied identified unoccupied land which in the main belongs to the municipalities.”
