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MisuZulu kaZwelithini. Photo: Darren Stewart/Gallo Images
AUDITOR GENERAL SOUTH AFRICA

Ingonyama Trust Board may drop residential lease appeal

The board is also considering closing Ingonyama Holdings

  • Paddy Harper
3 min read
Former Ingonyama Trust Board chairman, Jerome Ngwenya. Photo: David Harrison
CASAC

Ingonyama Trust’s Ngwenya cannot act on ‘frolic of his own’

Jerome Ngwenya acted without authority, LRC says

  • Paddy Harper
4 min read
The trust’s officials couldn’t say how the money was invested because the information was not forthcoming from the ITB’s investment wing. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
CASAC

Court rules that Ingonyama Trust Board lease programme is unlawful

About R90-million collected in residential lease fees must be paid back to people living on ITB land

  • Paddy Harper
2 min read
CASAC

‘Scrap Ingonyama’s unlawful leases’

Customary law and residents’ customary rights have been degraded, the high court has heard

  • Paddy Harper
4 min read
(Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
ANC

Ingonyama axes top managers

Five people have been placed on special leave, but no one knows why they are being investigated

  • Paddy Harper
5 min read
Tenure insecure: Subsistence farmers on Ingonyama Trust land, of which King Goodwill Zwelithini is the sole trustee, are angered by their permits to occupy being replaced by costly leases. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
COUNTRY

Justice delayed for residents on trust land

People living on Ingonyama Trust land continue to wait for their rights to be restored

  • Nokwanda Sihlali
4 min read
Nehawu provincial secretary Andile Zulu said the ITB had refused to recognise the union despite more than 70% of the workforce having signed up as members. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
AMAKHOSI

Ingonyama Trust strips women of land

A rule by King Goodwill Zwelithini’s trust board — that only men can sign leases — is being challenged in the high court

  • Paddy Harper
4 min read
Land battle: King Goodwill Zwelithini’s Ingonyama Trust Board is being taken to court for violating residents’ constitutional right to security of tenure. (Delwyn Verasamy)
COUNCIL FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF

Residents want trust to pay back ‘illegal’ rent

Last year the Ingonyama Trust Board took in about R107-million from commercial and residential leases it issued

  • Paddy Harper
4 min read