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  • Traditional Doctor Jackson Rikhotso collecting natural medicines. Jackson is part of the Nombhela Gardens co-operative. One of the aims of the co-op is to use their indigenous knowledge of plants and medicines as a way to generate income. The LRC has assisted the co-op to ensure secure tenure to their land.<br />
<br />
Njakanjaka Village, Limpopo, South Africa.<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Nombhela Gardens Co-op014.JPG
  • Harvesting vegetables at the Nombhela Gardens co-op. With land granted to them by traditional leaders the co-op members have started a permaculture garden. The farm produce to sell and employ people from the village. The LRC has assisted the co-op to ensure secure access to the land.<br />
<br />
Njakanjaka Village, Limpopo, South Africa.<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Nombhela Gardens Co-op047.JPG
  • The Nombhela gardens co-op. With land granted to them by traditional leaders the co-op members have built a cultural centre that they will use to generate income from crafts, cultural activities and food. The LRC has assisted the co-op to ensure secure access to the land.<br />
<br />
Njakanjaka Village, Limpopo, South Africa.<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Nombhela Gardens Co-op022.JPG
  • The Nombhela gardens co-op. With land granted to them by traditional leaders the co-op members have built a cultural centre that they will use to generate income from crafts, cultural activities and food. The LRC has assisted the co-op to ensure secure access to the land.<br />
<br />
Njakanjaka Village, Limpopo, South Africa.<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Nombhela Gardens Co-op051.JPG
  • The Nombhela gardens co-op. With land granted to them by traditional leaders the co-op members have built a cultural centre that they will use to generate income from crafts, cultural activities and food. The LRC has assisted the co-op to ensure secure access to the land.<br />
<br />
Njakanjaka Village, Limpopo, South Africa.<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Nombhela Gardens Co-op050.JPG
  • The Nombhela gardens co-op. With land granted to them by traditional leaders the co-op members have built a cultural centre that they will use to generate income from crafts, cultural activities and food. The LRC has assisted the co-op to ensure secure access to the land.<br />
<br />
Njakanjaka Village, Limpopo, South Africa.<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Nombhela Gardens Co-op025.JPG
  • The Nombhela gardens co-op. With land granted to them by traditional leaders the co-op members have built a cultural centre that they will use to generate income from crafts, cultural activities and food. The LRC has assisted the co-op to ensure secure access to the land.<br />
<br />
Njakanjaka Village, Limpopo, South Africa.<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Nombhela Gardens Co-op024.JPG
  • Traditional Doctor Jackson Rikhotso during consultation and reading of the bones. Jackson is part of the Nombhela Gardens co-operative. One of the aims of the co-op is to use their indigenous knowledge of plants and medicines as a way to generate income. The LRC has assisted the co-op to ensure secure tenure to their land.<br />
<br />
Njakanjaka Village, Limpopo, South Africa.<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Nombhela Gardens Co-op005.JPG
  • Traditional Doctor Jackson Rikhotso during consultation and reading of the bones. Jackson is part of the Nombhela Gardens co-operative. One of the aims of the co-op is to use their indigenous knowledge of plants and medicines as a way to generate income. The LRC has assisted the co-op to ensure secure tenure to their land.<br />
<br />
Njakanjaka Village, Limpopo, South Africa.<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Nombhela Gardens Co-op004.JPG
  • Mailmaila Rose Baloyi.<br />
<br />
Mahonisi village tribal levy story for the LRC.<br />
<br />
© Zute & Demelza Lightfoot<br />
www.lightfootphoto.com
    Tribal Levies- Undemocratic powers o...JPG
  • Shirhami Shrinda Legal Researcher from the LRC meets with Mother & Daughter Francina and Selina Netshakhuma. They have lived and worked on a farm near Musina for several years. When the farm was sold the new owner no longer required their services and threatened them with eviction without giving them an alternative place to go. The Legal Resources Centre has assisted them with legal advice and prevented them from becoming homeless. This case illustrates the vulnerability of rural farm workers who have no security of tenure. Near Musina, Limpopo, South Africa.<br />
<br />
Photograph by Zute Lightfoot
    Farm Workers threatened with evictio...JPG
  • Dayinah Mauundza  harvesting vegetables at the Nombhela Gardens co-op. With land granted to them by traditional leaders the co-op members have started a permaculture garden. The farm produce to sell and employ people from the village. The LRC has assisted the co-op to ensure secure access to the land.<br />
<br />
Njakanjaka Village, Limpopo, South Africa.<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Nombhela Gardens Co-op041.JPG
  • Harvesting vegetables at the Nombhela Gardens co-op. With land granted to them by traditional leaders the co-op members have started a permaculture garden. The farm produce to sell and employ people from the village. The LRC has assisted the co-op to ensure secure access to the land.<br />
<br />
Njakanjaka Village, Limpopo, South Africa.<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Nombhela Gardens Co-op046.JPG
  • Harvesting vegetables at the Nombhela Gardens co-op. With land granted to them by traditional leaders the co-op members have started a permaculture garden. The farm produce to sell and employ people from the village. The LRC has assisted the co-op to ensure secure access to the land.<br />
<br />
Njakanjaka Village, Limpopo, South Africa.<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Nombhela Gardens Co-op038.JPG
  • The Nombhela gardens co-op. With land granted to them by traditional leaders the co-op members have built a cultural centre that they will use to generate income from crafts, cultural activities and food. The LRC has assisted the co-op to ensure secure access to the land.<br />
<br />
Njakanjaka Village, Limpopo, South Africa.<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Nombhela Gardens Co-op052.JPG
  • Dayinah Mauundza of the Nombhela gardens co-op. With land granted by traditional leaders the co-op members have built a cultural centre that they will use to generate income from crafts, cultural activities and food. The LRC has assisted the co-op to ensure secure access to the land.<br />
<br />
Njakanjaka Village, Limpopo, South Africa.<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Nombhela Gardens Co-op027.JPG
  • Mpho Sylvia Ramolefe of the Nombhela gardens co-op. With land granted to them by traditional leaders the co-op members have built a cultural centre that they will use to generate income from crafts, cultural activities and food. The LRC has assisted the co-op to ensure secure access to the land.<br />
<br />
Njakanjaka Village, Limpopo, South Africa.<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Nombhela Gardens Co-op019.JPG
  • Traditional Doctor Jackson Rikhotso collecting natural medicines. Jackson is part of the Nombhela Gardens co-operative. One of the aims of the co-op is to use their indigenous knowledge of plants and medicines as a way to generate income. The LRC has assisted the co-op to ensure secure tenure to their land.<br />
<br />
Njakanjaka Village, Limpopo, South Africa.<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Nombhela Gardens Co-op015.JPG
  • Traditional Doctor Jackson Rikhotso collecting natural medicines. Jackson is part of the Nombhela Gardens co-operative. One of the aims of the co-op is to use their indigenous knowledge of plants and medicines as a way to generate income. The LRC has assisted the co-op to ensure secure tenure to their land.<br />
<br />
Njakanjaka Village, Limpopo, South Africa.<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Nombhela Gardens Co-op011.JPG
  • Traditional Doctor Jackson Rikhotso collecting natural medicines. Jackson is part of the Nombhela Gardens co-operative. One of the aims of the co-op is to use their indigenous knowledge of plants and medicines as a way to generate income. The LRC has assisted the co-op to ensure secure tenure to their land.<br />
<br />
Njakanjaka Village, Limpopo, South Africa.<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Nombhela Gardens Co-op010.JPG
  • Traditional Doctor Jackson Rikhotso preparing a remedy.  Jackson is part of the Nombhela Gardens co-operative. One of the aims of the co-op is to use their indigenous knowledge of plants and medicines as a way to generate income. The LRC has assisted the co-op to ensure secure tenure to their land.<br />
<br />
Njakanjaka Village, Limpopo, South Africa.<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Nombhela Gardens Co-op009.JPG
  • Traditional Doctor Jackson Rikhotso preparing a remedy.  Jackson is part of the Nombhela Gardens co-operative. One of the aims of the co-op is to use their indigenous knowledge of plants and medicines as a way to generate income. The LRC has assisted the co-op to ensure secure tenure to their land.<br />
<br />
Njakanjaka Village, Limpopo, South Africa.<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Nombhela Gardens Co-op008.JPG
  • Traditional Doctor Jackson Rikhotso during consultation and getting the patient to blow on the bones before he reads them.  Jackson is part of the Nombhela Gardens co-operative. One of the aims of the co-op is to use their indigenous knowledge of plants and medicines as a way to generate income. The LRC has assisted the co-op to ensure secure tenure to their land.<br />
<br />
Njakanjaka Village, Limpopo, South Africa.<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Nombhela Gardens Co-op007.JPG
  • Traditional Doctor Jackson Rikhotso n is part of the Nombhela Gardens co-operative. One of the aims of the co-op is to use their indigenous knowledge of plants and medicines as a way to generate income. The LRC has assisted the co-op to ensure secure tenure to their land.<br />
<br />
Njakanjaka Village, Limpopo, South Africa.<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Nombhela Gardens Co-op002.JPG
  • Harvesting vegetables at the Nombhela Gardens co-op. With land granted to them by traditional leaders the co-op members have started a permaculture garden. The farm produce to sell and employ people from the village. The LRC has assisted the co-op to ensure secure access to the land.<br />
<br />
Njakanjaka Village, Limpopo, South Africa.<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Nombhela Gardens Co-op048.JPG
  • The Nombhela gardens co-op. With land granted to them by traditional leaders the co-op members have built a cultural centre that they will use to generate income from crafts, cultural activities and food. The LRC has assisted the co-op to ensure secure access to the land.<br />
<br />
Njakanjaka Village, Limpopo, South Africa.<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Nombhela Gardens Co-op049.JPG
  • The Nombhela gardens co-op. With land granted to them by traditional leaders the co-op members have built a cultural centre that they will use to generate income from crafts, cultural activities and food. The LRC has assisted the co-op to ensure secure access to the land.<br />
<br />
Njakanjaka Village, Limpopo, South Africa.<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Nombhela Gardens Co-op023.JPG
  • Mpho Sylvia Ramolefe of the Nombhela gardens co-op. With land granted to them by traditional leaders the co-op members have built a cultural centre that they will use to generate income from crafts, cultural activities and food. The LRC has assisted the co-op to ensure secure access to the land.<br />
<br />
Njakanjaka Village, Limpopo, South Africa.<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Nombhela Gardens Co-op017.JPG
  • Traditional Doctor Jackson Rikhotso during consultation and getting the patient to blow on the bones before he reads them.  Jackson is part of the Nombhela Gardens co-operative. One of the aims of the co-op is to use their indigenous knowledge of plants and medicines as a way to generate income. The LRC has assisted the co-op to ensure secure tenure to their land.<br />
<br />
Njakanjaka Village, Limpopo, South Africa.<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Nombhela Gardens Co-op006.JPG
  • Traditional Doctor Jackson Rikhotso collecting natural medicines. Jackson is part of the Nombhela Gardens co-operative. One of the aims of the co-op is to use their indigenous knowledge of plants and medicines as a way to generate income. The LRC has assisted the co-op to ensure secure tenure to their land.<br />
<br />
Njakanjaka Village, Limpopo, South Africa.<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Nombhela Gardens Co-op003.JPG
  • Traditional Doctor Jackson Rikhotso collecting natural medicines. Jackson is part of the Nombhela Gardens co-operative. One of the aims of the co-op is to use their indigenous knowledge of plants and medicines as a way to generate income. The LRC has assisted the co-op to ensure secure tenure to their land.<br />
<br />
Njakanjaka Village, Limpopo, South Africa.<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Nombhela Gardens Co-op001.JPG
  • Mailmaila Rose Baloyi.<br />
<br />
Mahonisi village tribal levy story for the LRC.<br />
<br />
© Zute & Demelza Lightfoot<br />
www.lightfootphoto.com
    Tribal Levies- Undemocratic powers o...JPG
  • Shirhami Shrinda Legal Researcher from the LRC meets with Mother & Daughter Francina and Selina Netshakhuma. They have lived and worked on a farm near Musina for several years. When the farm was sold the new owner no longer required their services and threatened them with eviction without giving them an alternative place to go. The Legal Resources Centre has assisted them with legal advice and prevented them from becoming homeless. This case illustrates the vulnerability of rural farm workers who have no security of tenure. Near Musina, Limpopo, South Africa.<br />
<br />
Photograph by Zute Lightfoot
    Farm Workers threatened with evictio...JPG
  • Anna Muweli makes her point during a workshop examining how the proposed Traditional Courts Bill will affect the lives of rural people living in Kwa Zulu Natal. The workshop was attended by the Legal Resources Centre and the Rural Women's Movement. November 2010.
    LRC KZN Workshop037.JPG
  • Sekuruwe_0028.JPG
  • Joseph 2, Therese 7 and Charlotte 4 from the DRC wait with their mother at 6.30 am to renew their asylum permit.  <br />
<br />
In 2011 South Africa had the largest number of asylum seekers in the world. The Department of Home Affairs has a backlog of over 70,000 cases on appeal. It  has since closed the Refugee Reception Offices in Cape Town, Port Elizabeth & Johannesburg. This leaves most asylum seekers facing a journey across the country every three months to renew their permits. All three of the closures have been declared unlawful by the courts but nothing has been done about it.<br />
<br />
These photographs were taken outside the the Refugee Reception Office at Customs House in Cape Town as new arrivals and existing permit holders arrived for documentation. <br />
<br />
©Zute Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Asylum Seekers & Refugees_007.JPG
  • In 2011 South Africa had the largest number of asylum seekers in the world. The Department of Home Affairs has a backlog of over 70,000 cases on appeal. It  has since closed the Refugee Reception Offices in Cape Town, Port Elizabeth & Johannesburg. This leaves most asylum seekers facing a journey across the country every three months to renew their permits. All three of the closures have been declared unlawful by the courts but nothing has been done about it.<br />
<br />
These photographs were taken outside the the Refugee Reception Office at Customs House in Cape Town as new arrivals and existing permit holders arrived for documentation. <br />
<br />
©Zute Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Asylum Seekers & Refugees_005.JPG
  • In 2011 South Africa had the largest number of asylum seekers in the world. The Department of Home Affairs has a backlog of over 70,000 cases on appeal. It  has since closed the Refugee Reception Offices in Cape Town, Port Elizabeth & Johannesburg. This leaves most asylum seekers facing a journey across the country every three months to renew their permits. All three of the closures have been declared unlawful by the courts but nothing has been done about it.<br />
<br />
These photographs were taken outside the the Refugee Reception Office at Customs House in Cape Town as new arrivals and existing permit holders arrived for documentation. <br />
<br />
©Zute Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Asylum Seekers & Refugees_002.JPG
  • Forest company meeting to propose an alternative site.<br />
<br />
During Apartheid the workers in the mountain retreat town of Hogsback were not allowed to own their own property. They had to reside on their employer’s properties or commute from the Ciskei homeland in the valley below.<br />
<br />
Since the early 1990’s the workers in Hogsback have been trying to get the go ahead for a low cost housing development but continue to face delays and legal challenges. The Legal Resources Centre is representing the Hogsback workers in negotiations to find a suitable site for the low cost housing development.<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Hogsback- The Right to Housing023.JPG
  • Bold Point farm on the outskirts of Hogsback. This land was purchased by Government to use for low cost housing in 1998. The development was finally give the go ahead in 2011 but was blocked by a legal challenge in 2012 by the local forestry company who say the development would be a fire risk. Out of frustration people have begun to build there anyway.<br />
<br />
During Apartheid the workers in the mountain retreat town of Hogsback were not allowed to own their own property. They had to reside on their employer’s properties or commute from the Ciskei homeland in the valley below.<br />
<br />
Since the early 1990’s the workers in Hogsback have been trying to get the go ahead for a low cost housing development but continue to face delays and legal challenges. The Legal Resources Centre is representing the Hogsback workers in negotiations to find a suitable site for the low cost housing development.<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Hogsback- The Right to Housing013.JPG
  • Rev Wilton Mafika is the last living member of a Residents Association formed in 1993.<br />
<br />
During Apartheid the workers in the mountain retreat town of Hogsback were not allowed to own their own property. They had to reside on their employer’s properties or commute from the Ciskei homeland in the valley below.<br />
<br />
Since the early 1990’s the workers in Hogsback have been trying to get the go ahead for a low cost housing development but continue to face delays and legal challenges. The Legal Resources Centre is representing the Hogsback workers in negotiations to find a suitable site for the low cost housing development.<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Hogsback- The Right to Housing005.JPG
  • Sekururwe is small community in Limpopo. They lost most of their agricultural land in 2005 when it was leased to a platinum mine. These photographs were taken as the community fought to get further compensation from the mine. They believe they were not fully involved in the consultation process or made aware of the affects the mine would bring to the economy of the village, their way of life, their ancestral graves and underground water.<br />
<br />
As a result of negotiations initiated by the Legal Resources Centre the mine made a substantial offer for financial compensation in 2011. South African law stipulates that consent must be gained before mining on communal land yet it is unclear how and whom this consent is gained from.<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Sekuruwe_0043.JPG
  • Legal Resources Centre researcher Shirhami Shrinda preparing court papers with the Sekuruwe community. <br />
<br />
Sekururwe is small community in Limpopo. They lost most of their agricultural land in 2005 when it was leased to a platinum mine. These photographs were taken as the community fought to get further compensation from the mine. They believe they were not fully involved in the consultation process or made aware of the affects the mine would bring to the economy of the village, their way of life, their ancestral graves and underground water.<br />
<br />
As a result of negotiations initiated by the Legal Resources Centre the mine made a substantial offer for financial compensation in 2011. South African law stipulates that consent must be gained before mining on communal land yet it is unclear how and whom this consent is gained from.<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Sekuruwe_0040.JPG
  • Legal Resources Centre researcher Shirhami Shrinda preparing court papers with the Sekuruwe community. <br />
<br />
Sekururwe is small community in Limpopo. They lost most of their agricultural land in 2005 when it was leased to a platinum mine. These photographs were taken as the community fought to get further compensation from the mine. They believe they were not fully involved in the consultation process or made aware of the affects the mine would bring to the economy of the village, their way of life, their ancestral graves and underground water.<br />
<br />
As a result of negotiations initiated by the Legal Resources Centre the mine made a substantial offer for financial compensation in 2011. South African law stipulates that consent must be gained before mining on communal land yet it is unclear how and whom this consent is gained from.<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Sekuruwe_0039.JPG
  • James Shiburi beside an unknown grave.  149 of Sekururwe's ancestral graves were exhumed to make way for the tailings dam. Bones were broken and lost.<br />
In the new graveyard where his ancestors were supposed to have been reburied he found empty graves and pieces of bone.<br />
<br />
Sekururwe is small community in Limpopo. They lost most of their agricultural land in 2005 when it was leased to a platinum mine. These photographs were taken as the community fought to get further compensation from the mine. They believe they were not fully involved in the consultation process or made aware of the affects the mine would bring to the economy of the village, their way of life, their ancestral graves and underground water.<br />
<br />
As a result of negotiations initiated by the Legal Resources Centre the mine made a substantial offer for financial compensation in 2011. South African law stipulates that consent must be gained before mining on communal land yet it is unclear how and whom this consent is gained from.<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Sekuruwe_0033.JPG
  • Farmer William Hlangwane had grazed his cattle on Sekuruwe's agricultural land for 25 years. He received R4000 compensation. He now takes he cattle to graze in other villages moving from site to site. When asked how this arrangement was working out he said 'we are struggling we don't have enough food'.<br />
<br />
Sekururwe is small community in Limpopo. They lost most of their agricultural land in 2005 when it was leased to a platinum mine. These photographs were taken as the community fought to get further compensation from the mine. They believe they were not fully involved in the consultation process or made aware of the affects the mine would bring to the economy of the village, their way of life, their ancestral graves and underground water.<br />
<br />
As a result of negotiations initiated by the Legal Resources Centre the mine made a substantial offer for financial compensation in 2011. South African law stipulates that consent must be gained before mining on communal land yet it is unclear how and whom this consent is gained from.<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Sekuruwe_0029.JPG
  • A tailings dam that holds the polluted water left over from processing platinum ore now covers the village’s agricultural land. The dam will extend up the valley to cover natural springs and wetlands. Environmental researchers from WITS University predict that once the tailings enter the wetlands it will pollute the underground water and contaminate Sekuruwe's boreholes.<br />
<br />
Sekururwe is small community in Limpopo. They lost most of their agricultural land in 2005 when it was leased to a platinum mine. These photographs were taken as the community fought to get further compensation from the mine. They believe they were not fully involved in the consultation process or made aware of the affects the mine would bring to the economy of the village, their way of life, their ancestral graves and underground water.<br />
<br />
As a result of negotiations initiated by the Legal Resources Centre the mine made a substantial offer for financial compensation in 2011. South African law stipulates that consent must be gained before mining on communal land yet it is unclear how and whom this consent is gained from.<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Sekuruwe_0020.JPG
  • Shopkeeper Edward Motlana used to run a maize mill,  but without agricultural land there is no maize to grind and business has declined.<br />
<br />
Sekururwe is small community in Limpopo. They lost most of their agricultural land in 2005 when it was leased to a platinum mine. These photographs were taken as the community fought to get further compensation from the mine. They believe they were not fully involved in the consultation process or made aware of the affects the mine would bring to the economy of the village, their way of life, their ancestral graves and underground water.<br />
<br />
As a result of negotiations initiated by the Legal Resources Centre the mine made a substantial offer for financial compensation in 2011. South African law stipulates that consent must be gained before mining on communal land yet it is unclear how and whom this consent is gained from.<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Sekuruwe_0013.JPG
  • A tailings dam that holds the polluted water left over from processing platinum ore now covers the village’s agricultural land. The dam will extend up the valley to cover natural springs and wetlands. Environmental researchers from WITS University predict that once the tailings enter the wetlands it will pollute the underground water and contaminate Sekuruwe's boreholes.<br />
<br />
Sekururwe is small community in Limpopo. They lost most of their agricultural land in 2005 when it was leased to a platinum mine. These photographs were taken as the community fought to get further compensation from the mine. They believe they were not fully involved in the consultation process or made aware of the affects the mine would bring to the economy of the village, their way of life, their ancestral graves and underground water.<br />
<br />
As a result of negotiations initiated by the Legal Resources Centre the mine made a substantial offer for financial compensation in 2011. South African law stipulates that consent must be gained before mining on communal land yet it is unclear how and whom this consent is gained from.<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Sekuruwe_0007.JPG
  • Mr Mabasa is one of the 22 million South Africans living in rural areas under the governance of a traditional authority. He has kept a field for 20 years in a former apartheid homeland now governed by a Traditional Authority. He received a letter from the Traditional Authority saying he was going to be evicted from this field as it was needed to make way for housing plots.  It was not until he got legal representation from the Legal Resources Centre that he was offered any form of compensation.<br />
Limpopo, South Africa.<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Mr Mabasa's Field_0023.JPG
  • Mr Mabasa is one of the 22 million South Africans living in rural areas under the governance of a traditional authority. He has kept a field for 20 years in a former apartheid homeland now governed by a Traditional Authority. He received a letter from the Traditional Authority saying he was going to be evicted from this field as it was needed to make way for housing plots.  It was not until he got legal representation from the Legal Resources Centre that he was offered any form of compensation.<br />
<br />
Limpopo, South Africa.<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Mr Mabasa's Field_0007.JPG
  • Mr Mabasa is one of the 22 million South Africans living in rural areas under the governance of a traditional authority. He has kept a field for 20 years in a former apartheid homeland now governed by a Traditional Authority. He received a letter from the Traditional Authority saying he was going to be evicted from this field as it was needed to make way for housing plots.  It was not until he got legal representation from the Legal Resources Centre that he was offered any form of compensation.<br />
<br />
Limpopo, South Africa.<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Mr Mabasa's Field_0003.JPG
  • Mr Mabasa is one of the 22 million South Africans living in rural areas under the governance of a traditional authority. He has kept a field for 20 years in a former apartheid homeland now governed by a Traditional Authority. He received a letter from the Traditional Authority saying he was going to be evicted from this field as it was needed to make way for housing plots.  It was not until he got legal representation from the Legal Resources Centre that he was offered any form of compensation.<br />
<br />
Limpopo, South Africa.<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Mr Mabasa's Field_0002.JPG
  • Mr Mabasa is one of the 22 million South Africans living in rural areas under the governance of a traditional authority. He has kept a field for 20 years in a former apartheid homeland now governed by a Traditional Authority. He received a letter from the Traditional Authority saying he was going to be evicted from this field as it was needed to make way for housing plots.  It was not until he got legal representation from the Legal Resources Centre that he was offered any form of compensation.<br />
<br />
Limpopo, South Africa.<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
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  • Mr Mabasa is one of the 22 million South Africans living in rural areas under the governance of a traditional authority. He has kept a field for 20 years in a former apartheid homeland now governed by a Traditional Authority. He received a letter from the Traditional Authority saying he was going to be evicted from this field as it was needed to make way for housing plots.  It was not until he got legal representation from the Legal Resources Centre that he was offered any form of compensation.<br />
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Limpopo, South Africa.<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
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  • Mr Mabasa is one of the 22 million South Africans living in rural areas under the governance of a traditional authority. He has kept a field for 20 years in a former apartheid homeland now governed by a Traditional Authority. He received a letter from the Traditional Authority saying he was going to be evicted from this field as it was needed to make way for housing plots.  It was not until he got legal representation from the Legal Resources Centre that he was offered any form of compensation.<br />
Limpopo, South Africa.<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Mr Mabasa's Field_0010.JPG
  • Mr Mabasa is one of the 22 million South Africans living in rural areas under the governance of a traditional authority. He has kept a field for 20 years in a former apartheid homeland now governed by a Traditional Authority. He received a letter from the Traditional Authority saying he was going to be evicted from this field as it was needed to make way for housing plots.  It was not until he got legal representation from the Legal Resources Centre that he was offered any form of compensation.<br />
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Limpopo, South Africa.<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
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  • Community consultation with the Legal Resources Centre .<br />
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Mothlabe is a small community in the midst of the Platinum belt North of Rustenburg. During the apartheid era they were forced under the rule of a neighbouring Traditional Authority and the village boundaries redrawn.  In the late 1990’s they submitted a claim for land restitution but the claim came back as a failure but no reasons where given. They have since appealed but heard nothing. In 2004, a platinum mine began operating on the land in question and it’s profits have been used to develop other villages. When the Mothclabe community proposed independence by forming their own Traditional Authority they were issued with a court interdict preventing them from holding meetings and using the term ‘Mothlabe Traditional Authority.’  The Legal Resources Centre has since successfully defended them in court against the interdict. Meanwhile Mothlabe remains poor and restitution of their land is no closer.  <br />
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Mothlabe, North West Province, South Africa. 2011<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
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  • Community consultation with the Legal Resources Centre .<br />
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Mothlabe is a small community in the midst of the Platinum belt North of Rustenburg. During the apartheid era they were forced under the rule of a neighbouring Traditional Authority and the village boundaries redrawn.  In the late 1990’s they submitted a claim for land restitution but the claim came back as a failure but no reasons where given. They have since appealed but heard nothing. In 2004, a platinum mine began operating on the land in question and it’s profits have been used to develop other villages. When the Mothclabe community proposed independence by forming their own Traditional Authority they were issued with a court interdict preventing them from holding meetings and using the term ‘Mothlabe Traditional Authority.’  The Legal Resources Centre has since successfully defended them in court against the interdict. Meanwhile Mothlabe remains poor and restitution of their land is no closer.  <br />
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Mothlabe, North West Province, South Africa. 2011<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
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  • The mine uses water from Mothlabe's land and pays compensation to the Traditional Authority yet the money does not come to Mothlabe.<br />
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Mothlabe is a small community in the midst of the Platinum belt North of Rustenburg. During the apartheid era they were forced under the rule of a neighbouring Traditional Authority and the village boundaries redrawn.  In the late 1990’s they submitted a claim for land restitution but the claim came back as a failure but no reasons where given. They have since appealed but heard nothing. In 2004, a platinum mine began operating on the land in question and it’s profits have been used to develop other villages. When the Mothclabe community proposed independence by forming their own Traditional Authority they were issued with a court interdict preventing them from holding meetings and using the term ‘Mothlabe Traditional Authority.’  The Legal Resources Centre has since successfully defended them in court against the interdict. Meanwhile Mothlabe remains poor and restitution of their land is no closer.  <br />
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Mothlabe, North West Province, South Africa. 2011<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
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  • The mine uses water from Mothlabe's land and pays compensation to the Traditional Authority yet the money does not come to Mothlabe.<br />
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Mothlabe is a small community in the midst of the Platinum belt North of Rustenburg. During the apartheid era they were forced under the rule of a neighbouring Traditional Authority and the village boundaries redrawn.  In the late 1990’s they submitted a claim for land restitution but the claim came back as a failure but no reasons where given. They have since appealed but heard nothing. In 2004, a platinum mine began operating on the land in question and it’s profits have been used to develop other villages. When the Mothclabe community proposed independence by forming their own Traditional Authority they were issued with a court interdict preventing them from holding meetings and using the term ‘Mothlabe Traditional Authority.’  The Legal Resources Centre has since successfully defended them in court against the interdict. Meanwhile Mothlabe remains poor and restitution of their land is no closer.  <br />
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Mothlabe, North West Province, South Africa. 2011<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
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  • The mine uses water from Mothlabe's land and pays compensation to the Traditional Authority yet the money does not come to Mothlabe.<br />
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Mothlabe is a small community in the midst of the Platinum belt North of Rustenburg. During the apartheid era they were forced under the rule of a neighbouring Traditional Authority and the village boundaries redrawn.  In the late 1990’s they submitted a claim for land restitution but the claim came back as a failure but no reasons where given. They have since appealed but heard nothing. In 2004, a platinum mine began operating on the land in question and it’s profits have been used to develop other villages. When the Mothclabe community proposed independence by forming their own Traditional Authority they were issued with a court interdict preventing them from holding meetings and using the term ‘Mothlabe Traditional Authority.’  The Legal Resources Centre has since successfully defended them in court against the interdict. Meanwhile Mothlabe remains poor and restitution of their land is no closer.  <br />
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Mothlabe, North West Province, South Africa. 2011<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
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  • Grandmother Martha Lufu relies on her state pension of R1060 per month to support her family of 11.<br />
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Mothlabe is a small community in the midst of the Platinum belt North of Rustenburg. During the apartheid era they were forced under the rule of a neighbouring Traditional Authority and the village boundaries redrawn.  In the late 1990’s they submitted a claim for land restitution but the claim came back as a failure but no reasons where given. They have since appealed but heard nothing. In 2004, a platinum mine began operating on the land in question and it’s profits have been used to develop other villages. When the Mothclabe community proposed independence by forming their own Traditional Authority they were issued with a court interdict preventing them from holding meetings and using the term ‘Mothlabe Traditional Authority.’  The Legal Resources Centre has since successfully defended them in court against the interdict. Meanwhile Mothlabe remains poor and restitution of their land is no closer.  <br />
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Mothlabe, North West Province, South Africa. 2011<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
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  • Mothlabe is a small community in the midst of the Platinum belt North of Rustenburg. During the apartheid era they were forced under the rule of a neighbouring Traditional Authority and the village boundaries redrawn.  In the late 1990’s they submitted a claim for land restitution but the claim came back as a failure but no reasons where given. They have since appealed but heard nothing. In 2004, a platinum mine began operating on the land in question and it’s profits have been used to develop other villages. When the Mothclabe community proposed independence by forming their own Traditional Authority they were issued with a court interdict preventing them from holding meetings and using the term ‘Mothlabe Traditional Authority.’  The Legal Resources Centre has since successfully defended them in court against the interdict. Meanwhile Mothlabe remains poor and restitution of their land is no closer.  <br />
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Mothlabe, North West Province, South Africa. 2011<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
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  • Mahonisi is a Shangan and Tsonga community in rural Limpopo. Their village is administered under a Traditional Authority that charges levies to them for letters of recognition so that they can access government services such as birth, marriage and death certificates. Other South African citizens not living under Traditional Authorities do not need to pay levies for these services and documents. <br />
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Like many communities across the South Africa the Mahonisi community is frustrated with the lack of basic service delivery in their village. They do not know where the money they spend on levies goes. <br />
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Mahonisis Village, Gazankulu, Limpopo, South Africa<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
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  • Mahonisi is a Shangan and Tsonga community in rural Limpopo. Their village is administered under a Traditional Authority that charges levies to them for letters of recognition so that they can access government services such as birth, marriage and death certificates. Other South African citizens not living under Traditional Authorities do not need to pay levies for these services and documents. <br />
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Like many communities across the South Africa the Mahonisi community is frustrated with the lack of basic service delivery in their village. They do not know where the money they spend on levies goes. <br />
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Mahonisis Village, Gazankulu, Limpopo, South Africa<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
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  • Mahonisi is a Shangan and Tsonga community in rural Limpopo. Their village is administered under a Traditional Authority that charges levies to them for letters of recognition so that they can access government services such as birth, marriage and death certificates. Other South African citizens not living under Traditional Authorities do not need to pay levies for these services and documents. <br />
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Like many communities across the South Africa the Mahonisi community is frustrated with the lack of basic service delivery in their village. They do not know where the money they spend on levies goes. <br />
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These photographs were taken at a community meeting with the Legal Resources Centre for legal advice regarding the practicalities of breaking way and forming their own Traditional Authority.<br />
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Mahonisis Village, Gazankulu, Limpopo, South Africa<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
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  • Mahonisi is a Shangan and Tsonga community in rural Limpopo. Their village is administered under a Traditional Authority that charges levies to them for letters of recognition so that they can access government services such as birth, marriage and death certificates. Other South African citizens not living under Traditional Authorities do not need to pay levies for these services and documents. <br />
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Like many communities across the South Africa the Mahonisi community is frustrated with the lack of basic service delivery in their village. They do not know where the money they spend on levies goes. <br />
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These photographs were taken at a community meeting with the Legal Resources Centre for legal advice regarding the practicalities of breaking way and forming their own Traditional Authority.<br />
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Mahonisis Village, Gazankulu, Limpopo, South Africa<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
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  • Mahonisi is a Shangan and Tsonga community in rural Limpopo. Their village is administered under a Traditional Authority that charges levies to them for letters of recognition so that they can access government services such as birth, marriage and death certificates. Other South African citizens not living under Traditional Authorities do not need to pay levies for these services and documents. <br />
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Like many communities across the South Africa the Mahonisi community is frustrated with the lack of basic service delivery in their village. They do not know where the money they spend on levies goes. <br />
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These photographs were taken at a community meeting with the Legal Resources Centre for legal advice regarding the practicalities of breaking way and forming their own Traditional Authority.<br />
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Mahonisis Village, Gazankulu, Limpopo, South Africa<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
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  • Mahonisi is a Shangan and Tsonga community in rural Limpopo. Their village is administered under a Traditional Authority that charges levies to them for letters of recognition so that they can access government services such as birth, marriage and death certificates. Other South African citizens not living under Traditional Authorities do not need to pay levies for these services and documents. <br />
<br />
Like many communities across the South Africa the Mahonisi community is frustrated with the lack of basic service delivery in their village. They do not know where the money they spend on levies goes. <br />
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Mahonisis Village, Gazankulu, Limpopo, South Africa<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
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  • Mahonisi is a Shangan and Tsonga community in rural Limpopo. Their village is administered under a Traditional Authority that charges levies to them for letters of recognition so that they can access government services such as birth, marriage and death certificates. Other South African citizens not living under Traditional Authorities do not need to pay levies for these services and documents. <br />
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Like many communities across the South Africa the Mahonisi community is frustrated with the lack of basic service delivery in their village. They do not know where the money they spend on levies goes. <br />
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Mahonisis Village, Gazankulu, Limpopo, South Africa<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
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  • Mahonisi is a Shangan and Tsonga community in rural Limpopo. Their village is administered under a Traditional Authority that charges levies to them for letters of recognition so that they can access government services such as birth, marriage and death certificates. Other South African citizens not living under Traditional Authorities do not need to pay levies for these services and documents. <br />
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Like many communities across the South Africa the Mahonisi community is frustrated with the lack of basic service delivery in their village. They do not know where the money they spend on levies goes. <br />
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Mahonisis Village, Gazankulu, Limpopo, South Africa<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
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  • Mother & Daughter Francina and Selina Netshakhuma have lived and worked on a farm near Musina for several years. When the farm was sold the new owner no longer required their services and threatened them with eviction without giving them an alternative place to go. The Legal Resources Centre has assisted them with legal advice and prevented them from becoming homeless. This case illustrates the vulnerability of rural farm workers who have no security of tenure. Near Musina, Limpopo, South Africa.<br />
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Photograph by Zute Lightfoot
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  • A learner repacks the classrooms mud floors at the end of the week...Mkanzini Junior Secondary School is one of 395 'mud schools' in the Eastern Cape where buildings are dilapidated and unsafe with insufficient desks and chairs. Facilities are lacking and there is no money for maintenance. Students learn under terrible conditions. Corrugated roofs leak when it rains, when its hot the heat becomes unbearable and when its cold it is too cold to write...Mkanzini is one of the schools seeking an order compelling the Basic Education Minister to prescribe minimum norms and standards for school infrastructure...Near Port St Johns. Eastern Cape...©Zute lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
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  • Children looking through rubbish in Extension 9, Joza location. Grahamstown. ..Many of Amasango's learners come from difficult backgrounds and live in poverty in the townships and informal settlements Grahamstown. ..Despite receiving a court order to provide plans for a permanent school in August 2010, the department of Basic Education had failed to do so as of March 2012. The Legal Resources Centre continues to represent the school as they push for adequate facilities...©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot/ Legal Resources Centre
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  • Vukani township, some of the people of silvertown informal settlement were moved to Vukani..Many of Amasango's learners come from difficult backgrounds and live in poverty in the townships and informal settlements Grahamstown. ..Despite receiving a court order to provide plans for a permanent school in August 2010, the department of Basic Education had failed to do so as of March 2012. The Legal Resources Centre continues to represent the school as they push for adequate facilities...©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot/ Legal Resources Centre
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  • Many of Amasango's learners come from difficult backgrounds and live in poverty in the townships surrounding Grahamstown. Victoria Road in Fingo Village is a known as a illegal drinking den, some of the children stay here but many live in similar conditions...Despite receiving a court order to provide plans for a permanent school in August 2010, the department of Basic Education had failed to do so as of March 2012. The Legal Resources Centre continues to represent the school as they push for adequate facilities...©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot/ Legal Resources Centre
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  • Many of Amasango's learners come from difficult backgrounds and live in poverty in the townships surrounding Grahamstown. Victoria Road in Fingo Village is a known as a illegal drinking den, some of the children stay here but many live in similar conditions...Despite receiving a court order to provide plans for a permanent school in August 2010, the department of Basic Education had failed to do so as of March 2012. The Legal Resources Centre continues to represent the school as they push for adequate facilities...©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot/ Legal Resources Centre
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  • Amasango Career School. Amasango is a primary school for children with special needs. It is housed in disued railway buildings on a gravel plot on the outskirts of Grahamstown...Despite receiving a court order to provide plans for a permanent school in August 2010, the department of Basic Education had failed to do so as of March 2012. The Legal Resources Centre continues to represent the school as they push for adequate facilities...©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot/ Legal Resources Centre
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  • Amasango Career School. Amasango is a primary school for children with special needs. It is housed in disued railway buildings on a gravel plot on the outskirts of Grahamstown...Despite receiving a court order to provide plans for a permanent school in August 2010, the department of Basic Education had failed to do so as of March 2012. The Legal Resources Centre continues to represent the school as they push for adequate facilities...©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot/ Legal Resources Centre
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  • Amasango Career School. Amasango is a primary school for children with special needs. It is housed in disued railway buildings on a gravel plot on the outskirts of Grahamstown...Despite receiving a court order to provide plans for a permanent school in August 2010, the department of Basic Education had failed to do so as of March 2012. The Legal Resources Centre continues to represent the school as they push for adequate facilities...©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot/ Legal Resources Centre
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  • Amasango special needs school. Amasango is housed in disused railway buildings on a narrow gravel plot next to a railway line in Grahamstown...Despite receiving a court order to provide plans for a permanent school in August 2010, the department of Basic Education had failed to do so as of March 2012. The Legal Resources Centre continues to represent the school as they push for adequate facilities.
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  • Amasango Career School. Amasango is a primary school for children with special needs. It is housed in disued railway buildings on a gravel plot on the outskirts of Grahamstown...Despite receiving a court order to provide plans for a permanent school in August 2010, the department of Basic Education had failed to do so as of March 2012. The Legal Resources Centre continues to represent the school as they push for adequate facilities...©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot/ Legal Resources Centre
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  • Amasango Career School. Amasango is a primary school for children with special needs. It is housed in disued railway buildings on a gravel plot on the outskirts of Grahamstown...Despite receiving a court order to provide plans for a permanent school in August 2010, the department of Basic Education had failed to do so as of March 2012. The Legal Resources Centre continues to represent the school as they push for adequate facilities...©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot/ Legal Resources Centre
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  • Learners fromGrade 4 working with out desks...Mkanzini Junior Secondary School is one of 395 'mud schools' in the Eastern Cape where buildings are dilapidated and unsafe with insufficient desks and chairs. Facilities are lacking and there is no money for maintenance. Students learn under terrible conditions. Corrugated roofs leak when it rains, when its hot the heat becomes unbearable and when its cold it is too cold to write...Mkanzini is one of the schools seeking an order compelling the Basic Education Minister to prescribe minimum norms and standards for school infrastructure...Near Port St Johns. Eastern Cape...©Zute lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
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  • Mahonisi is a Shangan and Tsonga community in rural Limpopo. Their village is administered under a Traditional Authority that charges levies to them for letters of recognition so that they can access government services such as birth, marriage and death certificates. Other South African citizens not living under Traditional Authorities do not need to pay levies for these services and documents. <br />
<br />
Like many communities across the South Africa the Mahonisi community is frustrated with the lack of basic service delivery in their village. They do not know where the money they spend on levies goes. <br />
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Mahonisis Village, Gazankulu, Limpopo, South Africa<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
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  • Community members working in the garden planting vegetables. Nombhela Gardens. The Nombhela gardens project has been receiving free legal advice from the Legal Resource Centre..Venda. South Africa..©  Photo: Zute Lightfoot.www.lightfootphoto.com
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  • James Shiburi beside an unknown grave.  149 of Sekururwe's ancestral graves were exhumed to make way for the tailings dam. Bones were broken and lost. In the new graveyard where his ancestors were supposed to have been reburied he found empty graves and pieces of bone.<br />
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Sekururwe is small community in Limpopo. They lost most of their agricultural land in 2005 when it was leased to a platinum mine. These photographs were taken as the community fought to get further compensation from the mine. They believe they were not fully involved in the consultation process or made aware of the affects the mine would bring to the economy of the village, their way of life, their ancestral graves and underground water.<br />
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As a result of negotiations initiated by the Legal Resources Centre the mine made a substantial offer for financial compensation in 2011. South African law stipulates that consent must be gained before mining on communal land yet it is unclear how and whom this consent is gained from.<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
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  • Sekururwe is small community in Limpopo. They lost most of their agricultural land in 2005 when it was leased to a platinum mine. These photographs were taken as the community fought to get further compensation from the mine. They believe they were not fully involved in the consultation process or made aware of the affects the mine would bring to the economy of the village, their way of life, their ancestral graves and underground water.<br />
<br />
As a result of negotiations initiated by the Legal Resources Centre the mine made a substantial offer for financial compensation in 2011. South African law stipulates that consent must be gained before mining on communal land yet it is unclear how and whom this consent is gained from.<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
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  • Joseph 2, Therese 7 and Charlotte 4 from the DRC wait with their mother at 6.30 am to renew their asylum permit.  <br />
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In 2011 South Africa had the largest number of asylum seekers in the world. The Department of Home Affairs has a backlog of over 70,000 cases on appeal. It  has since closed the Refugee Reception Offices in Cape Town, Port Elizabeth & Johannesburg. This leaves most asylum seekers facing a journey across the country every three months to renew their permits. All three of the closures have been declared unlawful by the courts but nothing has been done about it.<br />
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These photographs were taken outside the the Refugee Reception Office at Customs House in Cape Town as new arrivals and existing permit holders arrived for documentation. <br />
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©Zute Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
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  • Forest company meeting to propose an alternative site.<br />
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During Apartheid the workers in the mountain retreat town of Hogsback were not allowed to own their own property. They had to reside on their employer’s properties or commute from the Ciskei homeland in the valley below.<br />
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Since the early 1990’s the workers in Hogsback have been trying to get the go ahead for a low cost housing development but continue to face delays and legal challenges. The Legal Resources Centre is representing the Hogsback workers in negotiations to find a suitable site for the low cost housing development.<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
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  • Makhosonte Sonjani, Vice Chair of the Hogsback Residents Association. He was born on the adjacent plot of land to Bold Point. Frustrated with the delays in he has begun to build his own home and a guesthouse, which he intends to run as a bed and breakfast<br />
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During Apartheid the workers in the mountain retreat town of Hogsback were not allowed to own their own property. They had to reside on their employer’s properties or commute from the Ciskei homeland in the valley below.<br />
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Since the early 1990’s the workers in Hogsback have been trying to get the go ahead for a low cost housing development but continue to face delays and legal challenges. The Legal Resources Centre is representing the Hogsback workers in negotiations to find a suitable site for the low cost housing development.<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
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  • Masixole Magadla and family. Masixole used to stay on a property where he worked as a maintenance man. When the property was sold he lost his job and his home. With no where else to go he has moved up to Bold point and built a house for his family.<br />
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During Apartheid the workers in the mountain retreat town of Hogsback were not allowed to own their own property. They had to reside on their employer’s properties or commute from the Ciskei homeland in the valley below.<br />
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Since the early 1990’s the workers in Hogsback have been trying to get the go ahead for a low cost housing development but continue to face delays and legal challenges. The Legal Resources Centre is representing the Hogsback workers in negotiations to find a suitable site for the low cost housing development.<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
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  • Bold Point farm on the outskirts of Hogsback. This land was purchased by Government to use for low cost housing in 1998. The development was finally give the go ahead in 2011 but was blocked by a legal challenge in 2012 by the local forestry company who say the development would be a fire risk. Out of frustration people have begun to build there anyway.<br />
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During Apartheid the workers in the mountain retreat town of Hogsback were not allowed to own their own property. They had to reside on their employer’s properties or commute from the Ciskei homeland in the valley below.<br />
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Since the early 1990’s the workers in Hogsback have been trying to get the go ahead for a low cost housing development but continue to face delays and legal challenges. The Legal Resources Centre is representing the Hogsback workers in negotiations to find a suitable site for the low cost housing development.<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
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  • During Apartheid the workers in the mountain retreat town of Hogsback were not allowed to own their own property. They had to reside on their employer’s properties or commute from the Ciskei homeland in the valley below.<br />
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Since the early 1990’s the workers in Hogsback have been trying to get the go ahead for a low cost housing development but continue to face delays and legal challenges. The Legal Resources Centre is representing the Hogsback workers in negotiations to find a suitable site for the low cost housing development.<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
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  • Legal Resources Centre researcher Shirhami Shrinda preparing court papers with the Sekuruwe community. <br />
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Sekururwe is small community in Limpopo. They lost most of their agricultural land in 2005 when it was leased to a platinum mine. These photographs were taken as the community fought to get further compensation from the mine. They believe they were not fully involved in the consultation process or made aware of the affects the mine would bring to the economy of the village, their way of life, their ancestral graves and underground water.<br />
<br />
As a result of negotiations initiated by the Legal Resources Centre the mine made a substantial offer for financial compensation in 2011. South African law stipulates that consent must be gained before mining on communal land yet it is unclear how and whom this consent is gained from.<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
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  • Farmer William Hlangwane had grazed his cattle on Sekuruwe's agricultural land for 25 years. He received R4000 compensation. He now takes he cattle to graze in other villages moving from site to site. When asked how this arrangement was working out he said 'we are struggling we don't have enough food'.<br />
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Sekururwe is small community in Limpopo. They lost most of their agricultural land in 2005 when it was leased to a platinum mine. These photographs were taken as the community fought to get further compensation from the mine. They believe they were not fully involved in the consultation process or made aware of the affects the mine would bring to the economy of the village, their way of life, their ancestral graves and underground water.<br />
<br />
As a result of negotiations initiated by the Legal Resources Centre the mine made a substantial offer for financial compensation in 2011. South African law stipulates that consent must be gained before mining on communal land yet it is unclear how and whom this consent is gained from.<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
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  • Frans received R6000 compensation for 10 hectares of land and now supports his family on a pension.<br />
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Sekururwe is small community in Limpopo. They lost most of their agricultural land in 2005 when it was leased to a platinum mine. These photographs were taken as the community fought to get further compensation from the mine. They believe they were not fully involved in the consultation process or made aware of the affects the mine would bring to the economy of the village, their way of life, their ancestral graves and underground water.<br />
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As a result of negotiations initiated by the Legal Resources Centre the mine made a substantial offer for financial compensation in 2011. South African law stipulates that consent must be gained before mining on communal land yet it is unclear how and whom this consent is gained from.<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
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