MPUMALANGA farmer Willem Pretorius is to approach the Land Claims Court on Tuesday for an annulment of the expropriation notice served on him by the government last week for his Lydenburg farm, Boomplaats. Officially, however, the land became government property at midnight on Monday. Pretorius’ lawyer Tiaan van Dyk said documents would be handed in at the Land Claims Court in Johannesburg first thing on Tuesday morning. The government last week served an expropriation notice on Pretorius after repeated failures to reach agreement on the purchase price for his farm. Pretorius is willing to sell the farm for R2,1m. The government is offering R848_485 for the land, which it intends returning to its original owners – the Dinkwanyane community.