It has been two months since a group of Khoisan activists has camped at the Union Buildings next to the Mandela statue.
Group leader Chief KhoiSan SA said they were planning a meeting with other Khoisan people countrywide for Saturday to discuss the way forward since no one was attending to them.
The group has been at the Union Buildings since November last year demanding an audience with president Cyril Ramaphosa.
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Chief KhoiSan SA said they wanted the government to recognise them as “the first nation of South Africa”, and for their language the Khoe-khoeaab to be made official.
The group left Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, on 17 November for Pretoria on foot to find out what had become of their memorandum of demands submitted during their first camp in 2017.
“We gave him [Ramaphosa] our memorandum but we still haven’t received any response,” he said.
They are demanding:
– To be recognised as the first nation of South Africa, and included in decision making;
– That their language be recognised as an official language of South Africa;
– For the land claims of 1913 be scrapped because it was withholding their claims as the true owners of the land; and
– For the coloured identity be scrapped from Z83 forms and all forms of identity.
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