{"id":7544,"date":"2013-07-22T08:26:37","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T08:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7544"},"modified":"2013-07-22T08:26:37","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T08:26:37","slug":"tau-sa-calls-for-credible-land-audit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7544","title":{"rendered":"Tau SA calls for credible land audit"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"safarm\"<\/a>A credible land audit should take place before the land claims process is reopened, farmers’ union Tau SA said.<\/p>\n

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Ownership figures released in the much-awaited land audit in February were not reliable, union president Louis Meintjies said in a statement.<\/p>\n

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“Utmost dissatisfaction was expressed about the uncertainty of the land audit, especially with regard to state-owned land, during TAU SA’s general council meeting in Pretoria.<\/p>\n

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“The process was not transparent and therefore no value could be attached to the audit.”<\/p>\n

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Meintjies claimed the figures, released by Rural Development and Land Reform Minister Gugile Nkwinti, contradicted those he announced previously.<\/p>\n

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“According to Nkwinti’s latest figures, the state owns less land than what was previously estimated.”<\/p>\n

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He said it seemed that agricultural land was being registered in the country on an almost weekly basis.<\/p>\n

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Tau SA launched its own land audit initiative several years ago, but this was halted because the state apparently refused to fund it.<\/p>\n

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Nkwinti announced in February that about 26 million hectares belonged to the state and 96m hectares were privately owned.<\/p>\n

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A break down of which nationalities and races owned the private land was still outstanding.<\/p>\n

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“There is an institutional challenge which will be resolved very soon,” Nkwinti told MPs at the time.<\/p>\n

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Tau SA’s general council recommended that a comprehensive land audit take place before the land claims process reopened.<\/p>\n

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Nkwinti recently announced an indefinite postponement of the reopening of the land claims process.<\/p>\n

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According to the draft Restitution of Land Rights Amendment Bill, published in May, the new land claims deadline would be December 31, 2018. The previous deadline was December 31, 1998.<\/p>\n

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The land claim process is aimed at providing compensation to those forcibly removed from their land by the colonial and apartheid governments between 1913 and 1994. – Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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