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Original Post Date: 2009-03-05 Time: 03:00:09 Posted By: Jan
The government is to take over farms allocated under a land redistribution programme that are not being used productively, Minister of Agriculture Lulu Xingwana says.
“I have instructed my directors-general to implement, with immediate effect, the principle of use it or lose it,” Xingwana said on Wednesday.
“Those who do not use the land must immediately be removed and the land must be given to emerging farmers and co-operatives.”
When it came to power in 1994, the ANC set a target of handing 30 percent of all agricultural land to the black majority by 2014.
The government programme includes restitution, by which ancestral land is returned to black communities from whom it was taken under apartheid, and redistribution, allowing black farmers to secure loans to buy land from the government.
Much of the land has not been used for farming and has lain fallow for years.
“The restitution programme has reached 95 percent completion. The five percent that is outstanding involves claims (on properties owned by) the mines, huge forestry projects and conservation areas,” Xingwana said.
The director-general of land affairs, Thozi Gwanya, said the government could fail to meet its 2014 deadline for completing the land reform programme because there were insufficient funds to compensate owners.
“We were allocated R6.6-billion for the land reform and land restitution programmes, but unless we inject more we cannot meet the target for completion,” Gwanya said.
“We need R15-billion more if the programme is to be completed successfully.” – Reuters