Dear Portfolio Committee on Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development, we are the indigenous Hawequa-|Xam community of Drakenstein District and we are still living under colonial and apartheid laws in the Cape winelands which is our ancestral inheritant tribal territory.
We are writing to you for help. We have been screaming to all the political municipalities and government departments but theirs no help.
We hope you as a committee can help us with the following:
1. Sins the government announced that people who lived on farms for more than 25 to 50 years, our people have been forced fully removed from farm with the help of provincial and local government. Some of these farmers has given there farms to the families and it has been taken by local and provincial government.
2. We are but a humble San or Bushmen community therefore we have reached out to people in government like Captain Witbooi, the NKC and others when the farm bakkies was available to the Hawequa community because it is on our inheritant land. He then register the farm land of Bakkies in his own name and the money that the state gave was gone. Then the farm when from one to another but never in the Hands of the indigenous community. We then found out that the western cape government has created a KHOISAN TRUST. We where never inform or invited to this trust. Know we where inform that the farm is going to belong to the Trust and we have no power to get that farming land for the people who lived in the area. The Khoisan Trust of Western Cape is a political entity created by politicians. We the Bushmen Community have no seat in and on that Trust. The Tribes that do have seats and excess on that tribes are historically not western cape tribes and we can proof that: Griquas, Nammas, Korannas are not western cape tribes according to there history. The western cape tribes are as follows:
a) Khoi Khoi: Cape Khoi (Cochuqua, Goringhaiqua, Gorachuqua) Chainoqua and Hessequa (Attaqua,Gouriqua, Houteniqua) only the cape Khoi are included in the Trust.
B) San/Bushmen Tribes: Sonqua, Hawequa, Ubiqua, Karo-|Xam. No Cape Bushmen Tribal community are part of the Trust
3. Our third issue is our Ancestral and Spiritual Ceremonial sites that are in the hands of White farmers and State departments. We need our sites back to restore our spirituality and our connection to our ancestral believes.

We don't want or be part of land that is not in our Tribal Territory. We are the Hawequas and we are a community of the Aboriginal |Xam Ka! Ke! Nation which area the First Nation of Southern Africa. We are not San or Bushmen because those names have no language and it was given unto us by colonial and slave oppressors like Coulards was given to us by the British and Apartheid Government.

We await on your quick response

Kind regards
Chief Sedas
National Chair and Leader of The |Xam Nation (Ka! Ke!)
Principle leadership of the Hawequa-|Xam community
cell: 0826284724