The plight of the Dunn clan as it stands today is not in good shap, what with the lack of responcibility, reaction and support from the South African Authorities. This being the whole court system and police department.
A brief overview of of the issue at hand is below.
Back in the year 1879 when the British forces defeated the Zulu Kingdom. After the defeat, Zululand was divided by the British into 13 smaller provinces under the kingdom. John Dunn, who was a double agent for both the British and the Zulus at the time was allocated one of the larger portions of land. This was in fact land that had already been given to him by the Zulu king Cetshwayo. It was more of a reinstatement of the land rather than being allocated by the British.
Over the years starting in approximately 1970, a number of african clans started moving onto the land allocated to John Dunn and the extended Dunn family. After much threats and violence the courts cleared and signed an interdict to have the illegal clansman moved off of the land. There was a sum of money put aside for the removal of the intruding people and have them moved to a separately allocated area of land that was acceptable to the intruders and to the Dunn clan.
The issue at hand is that the current government knows of the interdict and supports the interdict, but will not carry out the execution of eviction because of some new policies within the current government. Apart from the fact that the money allocated has been stolen, they also have a new need to grab land without compensation, something that was clearly stated to the British government a few years ago, when Theresa May visited. The statement was the taking land without compensation was never going to be enforced, but they lied because exactly that is being carried out on our land.
What we are facing is being ignored and pushed aside by the current legal system, even though many of the people involved have had their lives threatened and disrupted.
Below is an extract that I have placed on facebook.
Greetings Dunn family Descendants,
It has only recently come to my attention that our extended family members still living in Mangete are suffering at the lack of support and very bad decisions made by the ANC government.
To clarify many years ago (06 AUG 2004 - CaseID 1931/96) the Dunn family won a court interdict to evict all squatters from any of Dunn family land. Over the years very many squatters have illegally moved onto the original land deeded to the extended Dunn family. With everything that has gone about over the years, all the looting and bad management that the ANC have carried out, they have not supported the eviction process at all. There are documents from the local authorities stating that legally do not cover trespass and squatter presence on land. As a result of this, the numbers of squatters have steadily increased to where is has become a major problem for the Dunn family members that are trying to fight the cause. The current situation, a number of the Dunn family members have directly received death threats from local squatter chiefs if they continue to pursue the eviction process.
The narrative that was created or decided was that a compensation package would be put together by the authorities where each and every squatter would not simply be kicked off of the land, but they would be paid an amount of money and given alternative location to live away and off of the Dunn reserve. The total amount of funds paid for reallocation was R 14 120 000.00. This was paid to the Bhekamafa Community Trust Project. The issue at hand is that funds were allocated for this purpose, but the local government representatives have misused and misappropriated the funds, to the point where the funds no longer exist to support and finance any eviction process. This is also governed and dictated by the ANC ruling of "reclaiming land without compensation".
Over the years I was aware of the issues, what with Pat Dunn being pistol whipped and her husband John being shot, but thought that the court interdict to evict would solve the issue and clear the squatters once and for all from Dunn family land. I had contact with Chris Dunn, who is the current executor of the proceedings, and he has personally received death threats with his association of the eviction process. No authority is listening to him in any way what so ever. All doors that he tries to open to have the interdict executed are closed by bureaucracy. Over the last 8 or 9 years he has mostly financed the fight out of his own pocket, but after a chat with him, I feel that we as the Dunn family should all stand up and support the cause, we should also all push the internation knowledge and understanding of what is really happening in South Africa.
Thanks
Lawrence