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The Minister of Agriculture, Agrarian Reform and Rural Development, Thoko Didiza, said that in the next two weeks, the government will issue advertisements for 896 farms totaling 700,000 hectares of underused or unoccupied state land.
Minister of Agriculture Thoko Didiza. Image: GCIS.
CAPE TOWN – Hundreds of thousands of acres of state land are now at stake for those with the time and resources.
That is the announcement of the Minister of Agriculture, Agrarian Reform and Rural Development, Thoko Didiza.
At a press conference on Thursday, Didiza announced the process that members of the public will follow to apply for available state farmland as part of the government’s contribution to the land reform program.
He said that in the next two weeks, the government will issue advertisements for 896 farms totaling 700,000 hectares of underused or unoccupied state land.
Didiza said this was in line with President Cyril Ramaphosa’s announcement in his State of the Nation Address to free state lands.
“As for the provinces, the Eastern Cape will have 43,000 hectares that will be released, the Free State will have 8,333 hectares. In Gauteng, there will be none because we have already released them.”
Didiza said that all beneficiaries who were assigned state land and signed leases for 30 years would be subject to a mandatory training program.
The allocation will also be biased towards women, youth and people with disabilities.
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