South Africa
State owned land must be distributed - De Lille─── 09:40 Wed, 06 Nov 2019
Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Patricia de Lille/Gallo
Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Patricia de Lille said that state-owned land was being transferred by her department to support the land reform programme.
She said state-owned land must be distributed by all three spheres of government.
De Lille was responding to questions in the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) on Tuesday.
She said that the state had released thousands of hectares of land. Since 1999 up until now 181 properties have been released for land restitution purposes.
That amounts to just over 11,696 hectares of land.
There are also 22 properties available for human settlements purposes.
