Die regering en hul agente het beslis ‘n duistere agenda oor veral blanke privaat eiendomsreg en dit gaan nie net oor die 2019 verkiesing nie. Daar word hoegenaamd nie op swart eienaarskap gefokus nie. Duidelik word haat aangeblaas met hul verskillende metodes om by hul rewolusie te pas. Soros speel ‘n groot rol saam die ander finansiers. Immigrante wat hier kom nesskop het speel ook nog ‘n groter rol as wat ons besef. Soros maak juis van immigrante en onwettiges gebruik want as almal van hul grond eis is meeste van hul gerieflik ook swart.
There are 6.84million erven registered at the deeds office (which makes up 94% of all land parcels registered at the deeds office), covering 3.2million hectares of land (or just 3% of SA’s total land) and 8.47million owners of erven, which represents 93% of all land parcel owners in South Africa.
Agricultural holdings/small holdings has just over 50 000 registered parcel (or 1% of all land parcels in SA), covering just over 340 000 hectares (or 1% of land) and there are just over 60 000 owners of agricultural/small holdings.
And lastly farms, which has 419 000 parcels registered (or 5% of all parcels) covering a massive 110.6million hectares (or 96%) of land and is owned by just 527 422 owners (or 6% of total parcel owners). And herein lies the big problem.
SPECIAL REPORT: The truth about land ownership in South Africa
‘A total of 17,439 million ha have been transferred from white ownership since 1994, which is equal to 21% of the 82,759 million ha of farmland in freehold in South Africa’
• Total area redistributed: 4 850 100 ha
Total area restored via restitution claims: 3 389 727 ha
• The equivalent area for which financial compensation was chosen: 2 772 457 ha
n the 2018/19 financial year, we intend to settle 1 151 land claims at a cost of R2 billion. We will also prioritize post settlement support on restituted farms, R700 million has been set aside for this purpose.
In 2017, the Double Drift Community claim was settled with the community of 1500 members, receiving 1300 hectares of land in the Eastern Cape which constitutes 21 farms and is now the Double Drift Nature Reserve. They will be piloting a game farming project.
Another one of earliest and largest land restitution claims settled is that of the Ravele community in Limpopo province. The transfer of this land was done in 2005.The Communal Property Association has since made great strides in making the land productive and thus contributing to food security in our country. The CPA continues to record profits and has been exporting their produce, macadamia and avocados amongst others, to Europe, China and other markets.
Since 1994, through the land redistribution programme, we have acquired 4.8 million hectares of land at a cost of R17 billion. Of the 4.8 million hectares, 4 million is agricultural land and 779 000 hectares was land acquired and allocated to labour tenants and farm dwellers for tenure reform purposes. The department has recapitalized 1675 farms equating to 1,5 million hectares at a cost of R4.8 billion.
Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform Maite Nkoana-Mashabane has shed light on land ownership by her department and the Ingonyama Trust Board, in a written reply to questions from Parliament.
Responding to a written question from Democratic Alliance MP Thandeka Mbabama, she said her department owns 13 588 879 hectares of land and has exclusive rights to 2 222 920 hectares. She said her department does not lease land from the state for use or occupation.
Other critics have queried a perceived lack of transparency regarding land owned by the Ingonyama Trust. The trust manages and sets the framework for the realisation of tenure rights to land, especially rural communities. It is also the body corporate and registered owner for various pieces of land which form the Zulu kingdom.
The Ingonyama Trust owns about 2 million hectares of land and has exclusive rights to 2 882 00 hectares, Nkoana-Mashabane said.
The Ingonyama Trust Board does not lease from the state to use or occupy either, she added.
Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabanl reveals that her department owns approximately 13,588,879 hectares of land and has exclusive rights to another millions of hectares of land.
The report of the high-level panel (HLP) chaired by former president Kgalema Motlanthe found that the “land area of South Africa” was approximately 122.3 million hectares.
This astonishing admission by the DRDLR followed similar replies from other departments, notably the public works department (DPW), which revealed that it had about 1.9 million hectares of unused land, and the agriculture, forestry, and fisheries department, which revealed that it administered some 73,000 hectares of farmland on behalf of the DPW.
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CAPE TOWN – The African National Congress is continuing to use expropriation of land without compensation as a “convenient ruse to deflect attention away from their massive, two-decades-long failure to address land reform in South Africa”.
Replies to parliamentary questions posed to the rural development and land reform department (DRDLR) had revealed that the department and its entities had nearly 20.7 million hectares of land, DA spokesperson Thandeka Mbabama said in a statement.
“In its reply to my question, Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane reveals that her department owns approximately 13,588,879 hectares of land and has exclusive rights to another 2,222,920 hectares. It furthermore states that the Ingonyama Trust Board (ITB) owns approximately 2,000,000 hectares and has exclusive rights to approximately 2,882,000 hectares more,” Mbabama said.
The report of the high-level panel (HLP) chaired by former president Kgalema Motlanthe found that the “land area of South Africa” was approximately 122.3 million hectares.
This astonishing admission by the DRDLR followed similar replies from other departments, notably the public works department (DPW), which revealed that it had about 1.9 million hectares of unused land, and the agriculture, forestry, and fisheries department, which revealed that it administered some 73,000 hectares of farmland on behalf of the DPW. The public enterprises department, which had vast amounts of land, had yet to respond to the question.
“This information begs the question: why is the ANC pushing for section 25 of the Constitution to be amended to allow for expropriation without compensation, when government is sitting on vast tracks of urban and rural land, much of it suitable for development and/or agriculture?” Mbabama said.
“Adding to the confusion is a recent statement by the ANC secretary general Ace Magashule that we are rolling out implementation of policy of land expropriation without compensation, we are not waiting and the resolution by the ANC following the party’s two-day land summit in May that parliament must urgently pass the Expropriation Bill, ostensibly to test the limits of section 25.
“Meanwhile, the DRDLR responded to another DA question by confirming that (1) government has not determined the land that will be earmarked to be expropriated without compensation, and (2) will be guided by the outcome of the constitutional review committee which has been tasked with considering possible amendments to section 25 and is only set to report back to the National Assembly on 11 September. Confusion reigns.
“The DA believes that the ANC is continuing to use expropriation without compensation as a convenient ruse to deflect attention away from their massive, two-decade-long failure to address land reform in South Africa. Indeed, the HLP report found that increasing evidence of corruption by officials, the diversion of the land reform budget to elites, lack of political will, and lack of training and capacity have proved more serious stumbling blocks to land reform. The DA wants South Africans to be real owners of land with the right to choose, unlike the ANC and the EFF [Economic Freedom Fighters] who want the state to be landlord and the people to be permanent tenants on the land,” Mbabama said.
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