Tygerberg Raceway once roared with the sounds of engines and cheers. Today, it is a field of tin and tarps, a symbol of South Africa’s collapsing property rights.
Stolen Ground: The Invasion of Tygerberg Raceway, produced by Joe Emilio, has drawn nearly 200,000 YouTube views for good reason. The documentary exposes how laws meant to protect people experiencing poverty now punish those who follow the law.
In this Truth Report interview, Donald Brown speaks with Emilio, a comedian turned investigator, about how the PIE Act, introduced in 1998 to stop apartheid-style evictions, has become a weapon against property owners. One tent, and the law calls it a home. The result is courts clogged, land frozen, and justice lost.
The story of Chris Liebenberg’s Tygerberg Raceway shows what happens when law and politics collide. Emilio argues that the system now protects the invader more than the owner, while politicians exploit the chaos for their own gain, using it as a means to garner votes.
With land invasions spreading to Hermanus and Kraaifontein, he is already filming sequels.
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