The government has spent R217 164 192 on land claims in the 2024/2025 financial year, reports The Citizen.

This land was privately owned by individuals and private companies; and the claims were largely submitted by black people.

This information was recently revealed in a parliamentary reply to questions directed to the Minister of Land Reform & Rural Affairs.

Rise Mzani, chief whip Makashule Gana, said this amount was paid for 287 claims.

He said that of these claims, 14 farms were considered productive at the time of settlement.

During the 2024/2025 financial year, the Land Reform & Rural Development Department budgeted R466m to acquire and allocate 46 767 hectares of land for redistribution through the proactive acquisition of strategically located land and also for security tenure purposes.

‘This information once again pours water over the misinformation and disinformation around the Expropriation Act,’ said Gana.

Gana said Afrikaner farmers who had applied for asylum in the US were spreading false information about land confiscation by the SA Government.

‘They falsely claimed that the government has in the past and will arbitrarily and illegally start a process of grabbing land, particularly farming property. Thus far, not a single iota of proof has been produced to support this false claim,’ he said.

Full report in The Citizen