28 years later, thousands of land claims are still outstanding

28 years after the first deadline to lodge land claims, 5,160 claims still need to be finalised.
Between 2014 and 2016, a new window to lodge claims was opened. But the Constitutional Court ruled that all the “old order” claims lodged by December 1998 must be finalised before “new order” claims can be assessed.
At the current rate, it will take at least 15 years for all the old order claims to be settled.
Valid land claims are cases where people were dispossessed of land after the Natives Land Act came into force in 1913, and where such dispossession resulted from racial discrimination. Claims are settled either through financial compensation from the government, or by giving suitable land back, in…

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