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March 2, 2021 03:22:41 pm South Africa’s Justice and Correctional Services Minister Ronald Lamola said Monday that the country’s Land Claims court would be converted into a specialized new court to adjudicate on all matters and not just restitution. The statement was made in a press conference introducing the new Land Court Bill that was approved for submission to the Parliament by the Cabinet last week. Land reform is a longstanding issue in the country linked to rural development and several socio-economic challenges such as landlessness, poverty and inequality. It has a colonial history due to the Native Land Act 1913, which gave legislative sanction to the dispossession of thousands of black families from their ancestors’ land. The Native Land Act had limited land ownership by black people to 7 percent (later increased to 13 percent), thereby preventing them from buying or occupying land in their country. The apartheid government conducted the mass relocation of black peo

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