The Office of the Regional Land Claims Commissioner in Northern Cape will launch the mobile lodgement office to receive land claims in the remote rural areas of the Northern Cape Province, in Carnavon, on Sunday 11 October 2015.

As part of taking service delivery to communities living in the far flung areas of the country, the Commission on Restitution of Land Rights is dispatching mobile offices to travel around the country to receive land claims from citizens who stay in remote areas, far from the 14 Lodgement offices situated in the 9 Provinces.

Appropriately named the Gemsbok, the mobile lodgement office allocated to serve the Northern Cape, Western Cape, and the Free State Province will start receiving claims from individuals and communities in the small Karoo towns of Carnavon, Van Wyksvlei, Calvinia, Springbok and other neighbouring towns starting from 12 October until 30 October 2015.  From 05 November until 15 December 2015, the mobile office will service the small towns of Pofadder, Kakamas, Keimoes and surrounding areas, moving all the way to the far northern areas of the Province including Kuruman, Batlharos and Tsineng.

A total of four busses and two all-terrain 4 x 4 trucks will be travelling across the country to receive land claims until 30 June 2019, as part of the drive to speed up delivery on the land reform programme.

Media are invited to the launch ceremony as follows:

Date:         11 October 2015

Venue:      Carnavon Primary School, (Northern Cape Province)

Time:         11:30

 

RSVPs and enquiries: Pulane Molefe, Cell: 0718558369, email:  Pulane.Molefe@drdlr.gov.za

 

Issued by GCIS on behalf of the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform

08 October 2015