The ANC-led government had an opportunity after 1994 to address land reform but a number of factors, including corruption and failure to speed up land restitution for five million affected people, meant the country was far away from ensuring land redress.
KEVIN SUTHERLAND
He said one of government’s land reform programmes was restitution, designed to ensure five million South Africans who were forcefully removed from their land as a result of the Native Land Act get their land back or receive compensation. “We have a huge backlog on restitution claims. These are people who are claiming land because they lost rights after June 19 1913.”
He said a lot of people wanted to find out what the minutes from Codesa said about the land issue and what was the deal first democratic president Nelson Mandela struck with whites.
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