{"id":9032,"date":"2013-08-13T08:15:19","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T08:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9032"},"modified":"2013-08-13T08:15:19","modified_gmt":"2013-08-13T08:15:19","slug":"nkwinti-backs-down-on-land-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9032","title":{"rendered":"Nkwinti backs down on land reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9033\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9033\" style=\"width: 288px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/nkwinti.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9033\" alt=\"Nkwinti\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/nkwinti.jpg\" width=\"288\" height=\"175\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9033\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nkwinti<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Farm productivity is considered by Rural Development and Land Reform Minister Gugile Nkwinti to be more important than ensuring 30% of agricultural land is black-owned by 2014, Beeld reported on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking at the launch of the Land Bank&#8217;s annual report on Monday, Nkwinti reportedly said his main goal was ensuring 100% productivity on land transferred in the reform programme.<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nkwinti said that for government, the issue was not about the pursuit of targets, and he had not determined any target that 30% of the land should be in black hands by next year, the newspaper reported.<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;It was a sentimental statement at that time. No one explained it to me and I am also not pursuing it.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was important to ensure that farms already transferred were productive, because this would help feed the country&#8217;s people and provide jobs.<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">For this reason, his department had spent about 25% of its budget on the recapitalisation of land.<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He reportedly denied that the land reform programme had failed because not enough land had been transferred.<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We are moving from a quantitative approach to a qualitative one.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nkwinti said of the 79,000 land claims lodged so far, only about 6,000 claimants had indicated they would prefer land.<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The rest stated that they would rather have the money as compensation. &#8211; Sapa<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farm productivity is considered by Rural Development and Land Reform Minister Gugile Nkwinti to be more important than ensuring 30% of agricultural land is black-owned by 2014, Beeld reported on Tuesday. 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