As plans to expand Cape Town International Airport gain momentum, a family who were forcibly removed from hectares of land near the airport is still waiting for restitution more than two decades after lodging a claim. The Adriaanse family agreed to compensation for 19ha of alternative land for the “good of the country” after they were told that the land was needed for the expansion of the airport runway.
One of the claimants, Daniel Adriaanse, said: “This has been dragging on for far too long. It’s affected our families in economic and social terms. We are in the twilight years of our lives, we suffered under apartheid and with the dawn of democracy we hoped that the past wrongs would be corrected. The airport has several key infrastructure projects planned over the next five years. In 2017, it commissioned a realigned runway that would in the future allow for, among other things, the handling of new- generation large aircraft such as the Boeing 747-800 and A380. The project was expected to cost R4 billion.
Several generations of the Adriaanse family lived on the land, and made a living out of it. “My great-grand grandfather and his descendants farmed on the land. We even had our own borehole water system and livestock.
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