Covie community land claim

Abstract

The Covie community restitution claim refers to a claim by past and present residents of Covie village, situated within the Tsitsikamma National Park, between Plettenberg Bay and Port Elizabeth in the Western Cape province. The claim relates to the forcible dispossession of this largely coloured community of their residential plots, arable allotments and commonage in the 1960s and 1970s.