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GroundUp reports that over 100 farm women marched to the Paarl Magistrates Court and Drakenstein Municipality on Tuesday to draw attention to a looming surge in evictions from farms in the Western Cape.
In its memorandum, the organiser of the march, Women on Farms Project (WFP), said farm evictions were likely to increase now that the State of Disaster had been lifted. “When eviction cases already on the court rolls are effected, thousands of farm workers and their families face homelessness or living in overcrowded informal settlements,” the memo indicated. WFP called for an urgent meeting facilitated by the Human Rights Commission of magistrates and the police in the Cape Winelands and for President Cyril Ramaphosa to implement a moratorium on farm evictions until adequate housing was available for evicted farm dwellers. The memo was addressed to the Chief Magistrate at Paarl Magistrates Court, Drakenstein Municipality Mayor Conrad Poole, Minister of Justice and Correctional Services Ronald Lamola, Minister of Police Bheki Cele, and the Human Rights Commission. Neither the senior magistrate nor the mayor came out to receive the memo. According to Carmen Louw of WFP, farm dwellers were not adequately protected and farmers who evicted farm dwellers illegally were rarely prosecuted or held accountable. She said WFP had seen evictions of farm dwellers without court orders, as well as “constructive evictions” where the farmer switched off the electricity or water to force farm dwellers to move out.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Liezl Human at GroundUp
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