Public Works and Infrastructure Department Minister Patricia de Lille has announced the release of hundreds of land parcels to South Africans across various provinces.
Public Works and Infrastructure Department Minister Patricia de Lille has announced the release of hundreds of land parcels to South Africans across various provinces and in the process reversing the legacy of apartheid by returning land to dispossessed families and people of colour who were stripped of their dignity.
On Sunday, the department indicated that the land was released in line with the government’s commitment to land restitution, redistribution and tenure. In a statement, De Lille said the department was in the process of returning land to dispossessed families and that the process itself has been a long one but one that should be hastened with urgency 'so that claimants can finally have closure as they have already waited too long since the land claims process closed in 1999'.
Following her appointment, De Lille had indicated that the issue of spatial planning would also be one of the issues that she would take up as part of doing away with apartheid spatial planning which placed black people away from their workplaces and job opportunities. De Lille said she had already signed off numerous requests for releasing land under the custodianship of her department for human settlements and restitution purposes over the past ten months.
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