Land audit to be based on race

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Durban - A massive land audit is to be held to determine racial patterns of land ownership, and landowners can expect to be subpoenaed and forced to declare their land ownership if necessary.

The government is also setting its sights on “strategic” parcels of land owned by foreigners living in South Africa or abroad, with the intention of releasing the land for restitution.

The Department of Rural Development and Land Reform said part of the plan was to overhaul the land registration system in the deeds office and reintroduce the “racial classification” of ownership, which stopped in 1994.
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And so we move ever further from a race-free society. :(
 
ANC MP Lulu Johnson said he was concerned to hear that some who received land were “releasing” it to “white owners”.
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errmmmm... it's called "selling" one's property land twot.... it's what happens in free societies where people own land.
Is this tool now proposing that there be control over who gets to buy land based on skin color. ?
 
A search of the deeds office should show everything you want to know.

I say should. Unlikely though because the government has been running it.
 
They can fsck off....

I see this getting struck down in the ConCourt in a matter of seconds....
 
Durban - A massive land audit is to be held to determine racial patterns of land ownership, and landowners can expect to be subpoenaed and forced to declare their land ownership if necessary.
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DAFUQ? It's called the deeds office, you morons...
 
Obviously this can't be true. Some people really want to discredit the ANC at every opportunity they have.
 
porchrat said:
Basically they want to go back to racially classifying land. Disgusting.
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They never stopped. We had racist *******s in charge before, then a few people tried to do something about it, now we're back to different racist *******s. Same old, same old.
 
This is actualy a good thing,

A lot of people the EFF especially is saying that the state should transfer more land to non whites or that most the land is in the hands of the whites. The truth is that the state does not know who the land belongs to. The only way we can start making informed decision about land transformation is to actually know where we are currently standing.
 
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Jakes147 said:
This is actualy a good thing,

A lot of people the EFF especially is saying that the state should transfer more land to non whites or that most the land is in the hands of the whites. The truth is that the state does not know who the land belongs to. The only way we can start making informed decision about land transformation is to actually know where we are currently standing.
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Don't take this the wrong way, but its not a good thing.

Our land transformation is in such a state BECAUSE of the government, so them doing an audit will solve nothing. We have a deeds office for pretty much all the land in the country. Rather than wasting time and money on an "audit", they can just query the damn deeds office.
 
A lot of people the EFF especially is saying that the state should transfer more land to non whites or that most the land is in the hands of the whites.
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I would reckon that most of the land in white hands is productive and hold's value so I think that's what they after, there's plenty vacant land in the former Transkei going unused.
 
ToxicBunny said:
Rather than wasting time and money on an "audit", they can just query the damn deeds office.
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This is South Africa ... they will set up a "commission" to gather data, and that same Commission will allocate themselves millions of Rands in salaries & fees. It's just another money-making scheme for those people that vote for the 'right' party
 
ToxicBunny said:
Don't take this the wrong way, but its not a good thing.

Our land transformation is in such a state BECAUSE of the government, so them doing an audit will solve nothing. We have a deeds office for pretty much all the land in the country. Rather than wasting time and money on an "audit", they can just query the damn deeds office.
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The deeds office stopped recording the race of property owners in 1994 so it would be of little help. Please see the following link
http://www.politicsweb.co.za/politicsweb/view/politicsweb/en/page71639?oid=282525&sn=Detail&pid=71639

South Africa has a total surface area of 122 million hectares. As of March 2011 31 million hectares or 25% of that surface area was in the hands of the State. The remaining 91 million hectares or 75% of the surface area was privately owned. The balance of State and privately owned land varied greatly between provinces. For example in the great expanses of the Free State and the Northern Cape private owners held 89% and 91% of the surface area respectively. In both the Western Cape and Gauteng 55% was held by the State.

State owned land would previously have been regarded as part of the white owned 87%. It follows then that it should now be regarded as black owned, which means that at least a quarter of the country's surface area is in black hands. There is nothing preventing the State from handing title to much of that land to black people.

Since 1995 2.6 million hectares or the equivalent 2.1% of all land has been handed to blacks via land restitution programmes. This figure pushes the amount of land in black hands to at least 27.1%. In addition more than R5 billion was paid out to restitution claimants who accepted cash payments instead of having land returned to them. That R5 billion was sufficient to purchase an additional 2.6 million hectares which would have pushed the amount of land in black hands to just on 30%.

The land redistribution programme, which is a distinct programme from the land restitution programme, had by 2010 handed a further 3.1 million hectares, or 2.5% of the surface area, to black South Africans pushing up the share of black owned land to at least 32.5%. This figure is more than double that of the 13% often cited by government officials.

These calculations have not taken into account land traded in the market between private owners. This is because accurate data on the extent of such trades does not exist. There is significant anecdotal evidence that such trading between former white and new black landowners has taken place. Whether the amounts traded are equivalent to 10% or 15% or 20% of the surface area of the country cannot be known. However any of these figures would push the figure for black land ownership to between 40% and 50% of South Africa's surface area....................continues
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