1. Presentation to the Select Committee on Land and Environmental Affairs
13 November 2002
Presented by the:
Chief Land Claims Commissioner
Dr W Mgoqi

2. 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

21. Land Restitution. An Overview April 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

22. 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.

23. 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.

24. 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)

25. Land Restitution. An overview April 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.

26. Land Restitution. An overview April 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.

27. Settled Claims [National]
as at 30 September 2002
Claims
Households
Beneficiaries
Hectares

28. Settled Claims [Provincial Stats]
Province
Claims
Households
Benefic.
Hectares
E CAPE
11009
21940
97870
28380
F STATE
1150
1056
3778
6665
GAUTENG
6349
6296
33316
KZN
8640
14936
87427
70603
MPLANGA
558
4956
24336
21626
N WEST
1050
5628
44614
58814
N CAPE
412
4080
20938
279759
LIMPOPO
512
9712
45350
34504
W CAPE
4685
5058
36813
5255

29. Urban Claims Total Number of Claims Settled 24 045 (68% of total)
Total Number of Beneficiaries:
(35% of total)

30. Rural Claims Total Number of Claims Settled 11 092 (32% of total)
Total Number of Beneficiaries: (65% of total)

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