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The Koranna, Nama, San, Griqua, and Cape Khoi are among the Khoisan revivalist groups of the Western Cape. [3] The growth of the Khoisan revival has been fueled by contemporary political discussions in South Africa about the potential of pre-1913 land claims and the recognition of Khoisan traditional authority.
Land court or land claims court is a type of court which is charged with dealings over cases involving land titles and for disputes between landlords and tenants relating to agricultural tenancies. The exact field of jurisdiction varies by country.
The Western Cape Division at Cape Town The origins of the High Court lie in the Supreme Courts of the four colonies (the Cape Colony , Transvaal Colony , Natal Colony and Orange River Colony ) from which the Union of South Africa was formed; these became provincial divisions of the Supreme Court of South Africa.
It has its seat in Johannesburg but also hears cases in Cape Town, Port Elizabeth and Durban. Judges of the Labour Court, who must be High Court judges, are appointed by the President, acting on the advice of the Judicial Service Commission and the National Economic Development and Labour Council.
In civil matters a district court has jurisdiction where the value of the claim is R200,000 or less, while a regional court has jurisdiction where the value of the claim is between R200,000 and R400,000. [3] A regional court also has jurisdiction over divorce and related family law matters.
The Dutch East India Company established Cape Town in 1652. Dutch colonists initially took the land by force from the native San and Khoikhoi during the Khoikhoi–Dutch Wars. The wars were followed by systematic land grabs of water resources (springs, rivers) and pastureland, legitimised after the fact by exclusive land grants issued by the ...
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In 1984 he graduated from the University of Cape Town with an LLB. He worked for the Legal Resources Centre and was admitted as an Attorney of the High Court of South Africa in 1988. He served as the Regional Land Claims Commissioner for the Western and Northern Cape Provinces from 1994. He became Chief Land Claims Commissioner in 1999.