{"id":5748,"date":"2013-06-20T08:16:21","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T08:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=5748"},"modified":"2013-06-20T08:16:21","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T08:16:21","slug":"government-wants-to-stop-redistributed-land-being-used-as-collateral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=5748","title":{"rendered":"Government wants to stop redistributed land being used as collateral"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5752\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5752\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Sanpeople.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5752\" alt=\"San people\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Sanpeople-300x193.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Sanpeople-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Sanpeople-1024x658.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5752\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">San people<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"intro\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Government is working on a plan that would help prevent redistributed land being used as collateral by banks, Land Reform Minister Gugile Nkwinti said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We know that when people are in trouble, they go to the bank and use it [their land] as collateral, and the land is taken away,&#8221; he said at a televised The New Age breakfast briefing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We don&#8217;t want them to lose their land for a second time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nkwinti was referring to the Khoi-San people and their descendants, whose land was dispossessed after the 1913 Natives Land Act, and who are now benefiting from land restitution and financial compensation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nkwinti noted that the Khoi-San people had lost land even before 1913. &#8211; SAPA<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Land redistribution was not only about owning land, but also about production and sustaining it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said government wanted every household to be treated like a basic production unit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government is working on a plan that would help prevent redistributed land being used as collateral by banks, Land Reform Minister Gugile Nkwinti said. &#8220;We know that when people are in trouble, they go to the bank and use it [their land] as collateral, and the land is taken away,&#8221; he said at a televised &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=5748\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Government wants to stop redistributed land being used as collateral&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[3324,3323,2894,3325,130],"class_list":["post-5748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-1913-natives-land-act","tag-farms-as-collateral","tag-gugile-nkwinti","tag-khoi-san","tag-land-reform"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Sanpeople.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5753,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5748\/revisions\/5753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}