Presentation to the Select Committee on Land and Environmental Affairs

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Presentation to the Select Committee on Land and
Environmental Affairs

• 13 November 2002
• Presented by the
• Chief Land Claims Commissioner
• Dr W Mgoqi

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Commissioners

• Mr T Gwanya, Eastern Cape
• Ms T Shange, KwaZula-Natal
• Mr B Mphela, Gauteng North-West
• Mr A Roberts, Western Cape
• Mr S Ramakarane, Free State Northern Cape
• Mr N Nqana, Mpumalanga
• Mr M Mokono, Limpopo

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Land Restitution. An OverviewApril 2001 to
September 2002

• FUTURE CLALLENGES
• The major challenge facing the Commission is
  increasing its human resources, the capital and
  current budgets, so as enable us to meet the
  deadline of completing the land restitution
  process in three years, as directed by the
  President, as mentioned above.
• To this end National Treasury has been approached
  for additional resources, and there is hope of
  amounts of R300m, 400m and 600m being additional
  amounts for the MTEF period 2003-2005.

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Land Restitution. An Overview April 2001 to
September 2002

• Linked to this is the difficult task of speeding
  up the rural claims, which are much more complex
  than urban claims. They constitute the backbone
  of the land restitution programme. This is where
  the largest number of beneficiaries reside and
  where the bulk of the land , which is to be
  restored is found.
• As we are placed under tremendous pressure to
  hasten the land restitution process, we face the
  danger that we could so hasten things to a point
  where we sacrifice quality at the altar of speed
  and quantity.

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Land Restitution. An Overview April 2001 to
September 2002

• Sustainability and quality settlements are
  critical for sustainable development.
• There is real danger in us ignoring this. One
  which will make this monumental effort, a
  monumental failure.
• The most daunting of all the challenges is one
  relating to ensuring that, as the land is
  restored to restitution beneficiaries, they are
  enabled and empowered to use the land in the most
  productive and sustainable way.

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Land Restitution. An Overview April 2001 to
September 2002

• The Tri-lateral Co-operation Agreement involving
  the Commission, the Land Bank and the National
  Development Agency is aimed at these institutions
  using their collective resources, experience and
  expertise, so as to impact positively on the
  development needs of people who have had their
  land restored to them. (Post-settlement support)

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Land Restitution. An overviewApril 2001 to
September 2002

• We are also faced with the task of ensuring that
  the inequalities relating to gender are not
  replicated in both the holding of the land and
  its usage. It is also in this regard that we
  must all be seen to honour the promise of our
  constitution, by respecting rights of women, the
  infirm and the aged.
• We are concerned about the attitude of some
  investors, especially in mineral resources, who
  would like to come in and do business on terms
  most beneficial to themselves, relegating those
  who are new owners of land to a position of
  beggars for employment and others to begging for
  crumbs that may fall from the Masters' table.

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Land Restitution. An overviewApril 2001 to
September 2002

• Given the social, economic and political
  pressures in the land reform process, both
  within our country, and some neighboring
  countries, it would be in the best interest of
  social justice to finalize the land restitution
  process within the next three years, as
  directed by the President of South Africa in his
  State of the Nation Address on 8th February,
  2002, with the necessary resources.

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Settled Claims National

• as at 30 September 2002
• 34365 Claims
• 73662 Households
• 394442 Beneficiaries
• 505606 Hectares

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Settled Claims Provincial Stats
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Urban Claims

• Total Number of Claims Settled 24 045 (68 of
  total)
• Total Number of Beneficiaries
• 146 614 (35 of total)

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Rural Claims

• Total Number of Claims Settled
• 11 092 (32 of total)
• Total Number of Beneficiaries 278 029 (65 of
  total)

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