The Netshituni traditional leadership and the Makhado Municipality in Limpopo have been embroiled in dispute over a piece of land at Nzhelele outside Louis Trichardt.
The traditional leadership filed notice at the High Court in Thohoyandou to interdict the municipality from auctioning the land. The traditional leadership argues that the land belongs to it.
As the conflict over a piece of land of about 100 hectares in Nzhelele continues, the sale of residential sites has been stopped.
The Mphephu and Netshituni royal councils and the Makhado Municipality are involved in the dispute.
The municipality had to suspend the public auction of stands due to the conflict.
It had already appointed an auctioneer who had placed advertisements in the media.
The auction has however been called off at the eleventh hour after the Netshituni traditional leadership made known its intentions to take legal action to stop it.
The traditional leadership wants the court to review the ownership of the land.
The Makhado Municipality and the royal council have been in a dispute over the piece of land since 2012.
The municipal spokesperson, Louis Bobodi, says they’ll await the court ruling on the disputed piece of land:
“We received a letter with the intention to interdict us if we continue with the sale of those 70 stands they were complaining that we were not supposed to sell those stands, because there’s a pending court case relating to these particular issues hence we decided to postpone the sale of those 70 stands.”
Several people have already paid the 10 000 rand registration fees for public auction of the stands.
