What does the state land audit tell us about land ownership? What are its flaws? Who wants land, and why? We answer 3 FAQs about land in SA, with AfricaCheck ElectionCheck
The department told Africa Check/City Press co-ownership with other land owner categories was again the cause.
It added that sectional title units were not included in the total land owned by individuals “as they include units in high-rise buildings such as flats, office buildings and so forth, which may distort the numbers”. InfogramThe deeds registry does not record the race or sex of land owners, and the population register contains people’s sex but not their race.
Where race couldn’t be determined, names and surnames were used. This made the results less reliable. “The indirect extraction of race data through a combination of names, surname and ID number or date of birth exposed the land audit to the risk of under- or over-reporting,” the authors of the reportThe audit also only reports the race of individual owners of land, and not for land owned by companies, trusts and organisations.
As a result, “we do not know the precise racial pattern of ownership of [all] farmland,” said Professor Ben Cousins of theSince 1994, a number of surveys have investigated theClose to one in 10 Africans who were not farmers wanted land where they could live and farm full time
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