Farmer Evacuated as Land Invaders Occupy Farm Despite Court Order! Police Seek Landgrab Ringleaders!

Update on Elandsfontein landgrab at De Deur, Vereeniging:

The farm owner and his mother were evacuated from the farm for their own safety because it was clear the invaders were going to keep coming back.

Evacuation was the right decision under the circumstances because petrol bombs have already been thrown into a building.

The owners were were guarded right through the night and the men guarding were barely gone when they had to go back because the land thieves were back.

Everyone who thinks farmers should just start shooting at them should realize that any action that is not strictly self-defense, will push us deeper into the mess, because it will make us look like the aggressors.

Civil war is not games and when the shots start to hit, there will be no turning back --- they can mobilize 200 taxis in one night, don't make the mistake of thinking they are not ready, they are hungry for violence and just looking for " an excuse to start and blame our "privileged asses" for it.

The right opportunity will emerge and hopefully by that time each macho farmer will have pioneered group leaders and stopped undermining each other, and start to stand together, so that we as one people can cope with the hordes.

Videos were taken by the owner before being evacuated.

The Midvaal Local Municipality says police are looking for the ring leaders of the Elandsfontein landgrab, after the army, along with other law enforcement agencies demolished structures in compliance with a court order obtained by the Midvaal Local Municipality.

Squatters invaded the privately-owned land earlier this month and erected shacks and it is alleged there is a syndicate in the area that is scamming poor and vulnerable people with some being tricked into paying R250 for a piece of land.

Those arrested will be charged with contravention of the court order. “As the municipality, we successfully managed to get a blanket court order that then covers all the properties that were not initially included in the other court orders that was applied for by the property owners. So, this morning, as expected, the invaders assembled or had their own meeting to also deal with … their way forward. The information we got on the ground is they are planning to go ahead with the invading over a couple of days,” says Midvaal MMC for Community Development, Mokete Motsamai.