Question NW2204 to the Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
20 June 2022 - NW2204
Matiase, Mr NS to ask the Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
Taking note of the Land Access Movement of South Africa 2 judgment by the Constitutional Court, in terms of which the processing of land claims lodged between 2014 and 2016 was put in abeyance until all land claims lodged by December 1998 are settled, (a) by what date will the land claims lodged by the December 1998-deadline be finalised, (b) on what date will the processing of the claims lodged between 1 July 2014 and 28 July 2016 begin and (c) what amount would it cost the State to settle the claims?
Reply:
a) The Commission has created a 5 year project plan which will be concluded depending on available resources.
|
Output Indicator |
PROVINCES |
Outstanding land Claims |
Pure Outstanding |
Phased |
|
Number of outstanding land claims |
Eastern Cape |
657 |
597 |
60 |
|
Free State |
5 |
5 |
0 |
|
|
Gauteng |
379 |
370 |
9 |
|
|
KwaZulu-Natal |
2124 |
2045 |
79 |
|
|
Limpopo |
1349 |
1073 |
276 |
|
|
Mpumalanga |
1588 |
1170 |
418 |
|
|
Northern Cape |
37 |
22 |
15 |
|
|
North West |
208 |
22 |
186 |
|
|
Western Cape |
338 |
326 |
12 |
|
|
TOTAL: |
6685 |
5630 |
1055 |
b) When Parliament enacts new legislation to allow the processing of these New Order Claims.
c) It would be difficult to forecast for the 163 383 new order claims as we have not conducted any analysis because of the LAMOSA judgment which interdicted the Commission from processing these New order claims.
END