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Chief Sebenzile Nyangilizwe Mathanzima of Qamata has vowed that the Qamata Integrated Energy Centre will not operate until the land it is on is returned by the municipality to three local businessmen.

PetroSA told GroundUp it has “fulfilled its obligations pertaining to the construction of the Qamata Integrated Energy Centre .” Mathanzima says the land belongs to the traditional leadership, not the municipality. The municipality says the land was used by Spoornet to house workers for railway construction, and later handed over to the municipality.

Tshijila, from Magwala location, wanted to build tourist accommodation, but he says the municipality stopped him in 2012, saying it was municipal land. ‘I was away with work when one of my then workers called me from the site saying that I am being served with court papers by the municipality to stop whatever I was doing … I told myself I will go to the Cofimvaba court when I am back ….

Spokesperson for the municipality Zuko Ntshangana said the land was given to the municipality by the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform. He said the chiefs are generally mere custodians of communal land.

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