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To: sea_urchin who wrote (19464)	10/28/2003 7:44:38 PM
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>the problem is the government is inordinately slow when it comes to having to pay for the redistribution africaonline.com >>>Land Affairs Director-General Gilingwe Mayende says nearly a fifth of all the claims received in terms of the government's land restitution program have been settled so far. "The restitution program continued to register a significant increase as measured by the number of claims finalised," he told reporters in Centurion. He was giving an overview of his department's performance in 2001. A total of 12 863 claims had been settled, with nearly 40 000 households and 218 000 individuals as beneficiaries, Mayende said. The total cost of the restitution amounted to over R586-million. The bulk of this amount - more than R346-million - was used as financial compensation for successful claimants, while the rest was used to acquire some 365 567ha of land for restitution. More than 23 000 households received land and a further 16 330 financial compensation. <<< In my opinion, at least ten times this much should have been done already. The government certainly has the money for it but like everything else, except tax collection, the administration works only in reverse gear. As far as I am concerned, quite apart from crime and AIDS, which to a large extent are the result of poverty, the maladministration of every government department (and the corruption that goes with it) eg police, education, health, land distribution, is probably the most serious problem facing the country.