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South African Ingonyama Trust to Pay Back Money to Land Tenants

Rural South Africans in KwaZulu Natal Province took the Ingonyama Trust, controlled by late Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini, to court, seeking to cancel agreements which they say forced them to pay rent as tenants on their ancestral lands. The group - mostly women - said they were tricked into signing leases by the Ingonyama Trust, which controls over 3 million hectares of land, and sought a high court order to declare the agreements invalid. The case has been heard by a full bench of the KwaZulu-Natal Division of the High Court in Pietermaritzburg since December 9, 2020. Now, in a ruling that affects five million people in KwaZulu-Natal, the Pietermaritzburg High Court has ruled the Ingonyama Trust's land leases unlawful.The Zulu King's trust has been ordered to refund millions it collected on the leases, writes Tania Broughton for GroundUp.

King Goodwill Zwelithini died on March 12, 2021. His wife, Queen Mantfombi Dlamini Zulu was chosen as the interim leader of the Zulu nation under the title of queen regent until a new king was chosen. The regent died on April 29, 2021 and was succeeded by her and the late King's eldest son, Prince Misuzulu Zulu, in a hotly contested leadership tussle.

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Estcourt, KwaZulu-Natal.

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