LRC disappointed by SCA ruling in labour tenant claims case
21 August 2018
The Legal Resources Centre (LRC) on Monday said it was disappointed by a Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) judgment rejecting arguments to appoint a special master to oversee land claims made by labour tenants.
The case went on appeal to the SCA after the Land Claims Court ruled in December 2016 that a special master be appointed to expedite claims for portions of lands that labour tenants have worked and lived on.
At the time, the Land Claims Court acknowledged the "dire state of labour tenant applications".
"Effective relief is undoubtedly required for the many thousands of vulnerable labour tenants. The [land reform] department has thus far experienced grave difficulties in providing this," Judge Thomas Ncube said in the 2016 judgment.