Original inhabitants of SA cannot be called ‘land invaders’
Regarding the article, “Legal battle looms over invaded Jeffreysbay land,” (March 22), which discusses how “nature conservation groups are up in arms about the critical conservation land Wayne Petersen and his family have invaded near Jeffreys Bay,” let me introduce the Metro Unity Vehicle (MUV) Gqeberha.
We are a special purpose unity vehicle for all aboriginal first nation people (so-called coloured people) in the metro precinct.
The goal is to bring leadership formations of all tribal, royal houses organisations, relevant stakeholders and our communities where they live, together under one banner.
The purpose is to speak with one voice, perform one action, exercise one free prior inform consent (FPIC) in our quest to achieve restorative justice in our lifetime.
We will be launching this aboriginal governance metro structure formally on April 15 2023, which will be administered in parallel with the existing failed political system.
At that event, we will give notice to this toxic metro council that we are ready, willing and able to administer our trust lands and reintroduce our forgotten aboriginality on the land of our forebears in all the areas where our people live.
Our mother body is called National Aboriginal Governance Council, fondly referred to as NAGC-SPV.
To Mr Wayne Petersen and his family, we as the MUV: Gqeberha wish you well in fighting these admiralty law invaders and their media hyenas.
It is unfortunate that The Herald had decided to entertain this article, which is, for the lack of a better word, rubbish.
The Herald over the years was always admired for producing high quality content.
However, in this matter, you have stooped to new lows.
Mr (Guy) Rogers, if you did proper research, you would have done a little more homework to ascertain who this land belong to and why it was “invaded”.
Some of us have woken up from the lies and deceit instilled in our minds that we are not the true inhabitants of this SA plain.
Our/my people, were brutally murdered, raped, enslaved and dispossessed of their land and belongings, by your ancestors.
How dare you call Mr Petersen an invader when he exercised his legal right as a rightful descendant of our ancestral land?
Why do we think the trust doesn’t bear the names Zulu, Nguni, Griqua, Khoi, and so on but the coloured name?
Something must have caused this name to be used at the time.
From 1948-1958, the English realised they were about to lose the land and played along with the NP government and signed a treaty whereby the trust was created for the natives or aboriginals who were declared extinct by Act 30 of 1950 and given the name coloureds to transfer our land to the state and the white man who today owns almost all of our fertile and mineral rich land.
No government or any political party ever owned land except the aboriginals or first people that were found here.
This fact was well known to the British who acknowledged this through the 1909 Mission Station and Reserve Act.
That’s why they preferred to rather put the land in trust, hoping that one day we will awake and claim our inheritance.
That day is here but sadly, many of our people and leaders are still programmed by the system which was designed to fool us.
The NP government knew that the way to keep us away from the trust was to make the draconian apartheid laws and enforce them brutally on our fathers.
That’s why the coloured people were in a constant state of emergency from 1964 to 1974.
This was done to prevent us from gathering in groups while we were forcefully removed from our own land because our fathers did not know about the trust.
A trust is a legal document that cannot just be dissolved by the government without the consent of the beneficiaries, please read the Ngonyama judgment for reference.
We have awoken and are in an advanced stage of reclaiming our ancestral land.
This country and its constitution have been the protector of your ill-gotten land rights, in contravention of our trust lands, reserved under Act 3 of 1961.
The leadership of the MUV: Gqeberha have resolved that The Herald and Mr Rogers publicly apologise to Mr Petersen and his family for referring to them as invaders.