Nkwinti: Govt acquired 26% of land distribution target
Allafrica.com reports that Rural Development and Land Reform Minister Gugile Nkwinti has clarified government's commitment to distribute 30% of the country's agricultural land by 2014.
During his budget vote in Parliament, Nkwinti told MPs that in 1994, when South Africa had approximately 82 million hectares of white-owned agricultural land, government set itself a target to redistribute, by 2014, thirty percent of the land - approximately 24.5 million hectares - to the previously disadvantaged.
"Up to the end of the third term of this democratic state," Nkwinti said the government had acquired 6.7 million hectares of that land, or about 26% of its 24.5 million ha target. "This figure does not include hectares of land for which the government paid financial compensation, either because people so chose or because land could not be restored," the minister explained, adding that his department was working on translating the amounts paid for financial compensation into hectares, Allafrica.com says.
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