NATIONAL ASSEMBLY WRITTEN REPLY

QUESTION 1464

INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER [No 20-2013]

DATE OF PUBLICATION:  07 JUNE 2013

1464. Mr P J Groenewald (FF Plus) to ask the Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform:

(1) With reference to his reply to question 976 on 13 May 2011 (see here), how much land in square meters and (b) hectares in (i) total and (ii) each separate province resorts under control of the (aa) State, (bb) private owners and (cc) traditional authorities ; what was the source from which these figures were obtained? NW1809E

THE MINISTER OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND LAND REFORM:

(1)(a)-(b)(i)(ii)(aa)(bb)(cc) Refer to the table below.

Note: All trust and communal land are currently captured as state land.

Unaccounted extent is the difference between the province extent and the sum of private land and state land. In some provinces the unaccounted extent is as a result of the existence of unsurveyed and unregistered state land.

(2) The sources of the above figures are from the land audit database which was formulated using the Deeds database and the Surveyor-General's database .

Issued by Parliament, July 9 2013

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