Agriculture, Land Reform, and Rural Development Minister Thoko Didiza announced on Thursday that Cabinet has approved 60 of 73 recommendations in the land advisory panel’s report, with nine recommendations rejected and three noted.
The Presidential Advisory Panel on Land Reform and Agriculture was headed by Vuyokazi Mahlati. President Cyril Ramaphosa appointed the 10-member panel in September 2018 to analyse and provide proposals on a broad range of land and agricultural issues to help address inequalities.
The proposal to introduce land tax was also rejected as Cabinet said there was an undertaking by the Ministry of Finance that the land tax be incorporated in the property rates legislation as well as capital gains tax. The proposed New Green and White paper on Land has been put on the back burner as it might take longer to address some of the immediate challenges, and therefore is a long-term program.
The panel will be further making recommendations regarding an in-depth assessment into the conditions for the application of land ceilings.
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