The Portfolio Committee on Rural Development and Land Reform with this week embark on a countrywide public consultation process on the Restitution of Land Rights Amendment Bill to obtain the views of the South Africans at large on the content of the proposed legislation.
The consultation will afford interested persons and stakeholders to make comments and inputs on the legislation which among others, seeks to amend the cut-off date for lodging claims for restitution; make provision for the advertisement of claims and regulate appointment of Land Claims Court Judge.
This long-awaited process will lead to the second phase of land claims and restitution to allow all people and communities that were dispossessed of their land as a result of 19th June 1913 Native Land Act, including those who missed the deadline of the first lodgement phase (31st Dec 1998), to lodge their claims through the Land Claims Commission.
The first round of public hearings will commence on Thursday, 7 November until Friday, 22 November 2013 in the Western Cape, Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo and Mpumalanga. The rest of the provinces will be visited at the beginning of 2014.
For media enquiries or interviews with the Chairperson, please contact:
Foster Mohale (Mr)
Parliamentary Communication Services
Tel: 021 403 2239
Cell: 072 432 3792
E-mail: fmohale@parliament.gov.za
Temba Gubula (Mr)
Parliamentary Communication Services
Tel: 021 403 8307
Cell: 078 735 8809
E-mail: tgubula@parliament.gov.za
