The DA in the Western Cape has noted the claims made by Deputy Minister of Agriculture Land Reform and Rural Development, Mcebisi Skwatsha, at the recent Presidential Imbizo in Paarl, including that farmers in the Western Cape are artificially inflating the prices of their farms once they learn that their farms have been targeted for land reform. According to Skwatsha, this is because farmers in the Western Cape refuse to live in the “new South Africa”. In one example cited by the deputy minister, a farmer apparently raised the price of his farm from R5 million to R90 million upon learning that the farm was targeted for a land reform project.
A total of 82 976 land claims lodged before the cut-off date of 30 December 1998 have been settled, the Commission on Restitution of Land Rights (CRLR) said on Wednesday.
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