KNOFLOKSKRAAL

The Public Record

Legibility Is Built on Documents

The administrative heart of the site: statements, correspondence, governance instruments and corrections — published deliberately, redacted where required, and never at the cost of any resident’s safety or dignity.

Document Categories

The Record Room

At launch, every document below is a clearly labelled placeholder. Real documents are added only after Council approval and redaction review. Nothing confidential is ever published.

CATEGORY 01

Public Statements

Official statements issued by the Customary Council and Secretariat.

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CATEGORY 02

Parliamentary Record

Public parliamentary material, including the 26 November 2022 record on consultation and non-removal.

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CATEGORY 03

DPWI Correspondence

Approved, redacted correspondence within the constructive negotiation process.

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CATEGORY 04

Governance Documents

Founding instruments, mandate statements and public governance frameworks.

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CATEGORY 05

Heritage & Research

Approved heritage notes, research summaries and report-backs under protocol.

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CATEGORY 06

Media Responses

Official responses to media coverage and enquiries.

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CATEGORY 07

Redacted Legal Updates

Lawful public updates on legal processes, redacted and approved by legal representatives.

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CATEGORY 08

Annual Reports

Annual public accounting of governance, programmes and progress.

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CATEGORY 09

Resolutions

Public resolutions of the mandated bodies, published after approval.

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CATEGORY 10

Meeting Communiques

Public communiques from Council and Assembly proceedings.

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CATEGORY 11

Corrections to the Public Record

Formal corrections of public claims, kept with evidence on the News page.

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CATEGORY 12

Public Heritage Notes

Non-sensitive heritage notes: place names, language registers, memory work.

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Forthcoming

2026 Founding Governance Report — forthcoming after Council and community mandate.

Discipline of the Record

What This Record Will Never Contain

  • No confidential documents
  • No ID numbers
  • No signatures unless expressly approved
  • No WhatsApp screenshots
  • No internal disputes
  • No untested accusations
  • No vulnerable-person names
  • No private mandate registers
Every document currently linked on this page is a placeholder, clearly labelled as such inside the file. Placeholders exist so that the record room stands ready — its shelves built before its papers arrive.

Verifiable Foundations

Sources & Further Reading

The public claims made across this site rest on a checkable record. Key public sources are listed here in APA 7 style; community records and oral histories are marked as such wherever they appear.

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Human, L., & Hendricks, A. (2022, June 6). Plan to create “Khoisan Orania” in Grabouw. GroundUp. https://groundup.org.za/article/grabouw-occupiers-want-to-create-soverign-khoisan-community/

International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs. (2024). The Indigenous World 2024: South Africa. https://iwgia.org/en/south-africa/5358-iw-2024-southafrica.html

Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure v All Those Unknown Persons Intending to Occupy or Occupying State Land Situated at Overberg, Caledon Forest (Case No. 19269/2020) (Western Cape Division, Cape Town).

Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure v Those Persons Occupying Farm 336 and/or Farm 445 Grabouw (Case No. 6478/2021) (Western Cape Division, Cape Town).

Overstrand Municipality. (2009). Heritage survey: Fisherhaven [Municipal spatial planning heritage document]. https://www.overstrand.gov.za/

Parliament of the Republic of South Africa. (2022, November 26). Committee and stakeholders resolve that residents will not be moved from Knoflokskraal land [Press release]. https://www.parliament.gov.za/press-releases/committee-and-stakeholders-resolve-residents-will-not-be-moved-knoflokskraal-land

Parliamentary Monitoring Group. (2022, September 13). Land invasions at “Knoflokskraal” site in the Grabouw plantation; with Minister. https://pmg.org.za/committee-meeting/35532/

Parliamentary Monitoring Group. (2022, October 25). Land invasions at “Knoflokskraal” site in the Grabouw plantation: Follow-up engagement; with Ministers. https://pmg.org.za/committee-meeting/35827/

Parliamentary Monitoring Group. (2023, March 7). Follow-up engagement on land invasions at “Knoflokskraal” site in the Grabouw plantation; with Ministry. https://pmg.org.za/committee-meeting/36484/

Van Ryneveld, K. (2023). The KhoiSan Genadendal Movement’s Knoflokskraal occupation, Grabouw, Western Cape. ResearchGate. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.14319.25760

University of Ghent. (n.d.). Grappling with refusal, self-representation, and visual sovereignty at the Knoflokskraal Khoisan ‘reclaim’. https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/01JP2QGDB2Y6M06BGED906G7EN

Scholarly and media sources are listed for verifiability; listing does not imply the community’s endorsement of every characterisation within them. Corrections to any public characterisation are handled through Corrections to the Public Record.