Presentation to the Select Committee on Land and Environmental Affairs

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 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.

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 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.

26. 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.

27. Settled Claims [National] as at 30 September 2002 • 34365 Claims • 73662 Households • 394442 Beneficiaries • 505606 Hectares

28. Settled Claims [Provincial Stats]

29. Urban Claims • Total Number of Claims Settled 24 045 (68% of total) • Total Number of Beneficiaries: 146 614 (35% of total)

30. 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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