DESPITE the funding of land reform remaining an unresolved issue, Rural Development and Land Reform Minister Gugile Nkwinti is determined to press on with the process by introducing five pieces of draft legislation to Parliament this year.Mr Nkwinti was at pains to emphasise that central to the state’s intervention in land reform would be stability and conformity with the constitution, which the African National Congress (ANC), was not prepared to alter.The question of financing the new efforts was not addressed in his budget speech delivered on Wednesday. But Mr Nkwinti said in an interview that he believed there were "sufficient" funds to carry forward land reform.In the budget presented in February, the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform’s allocation was cut. In the medium term the department would shift focus towards rural development programmes at the expense of land restitution and reform. About R2.4bn would go towards land restitution and R2.1bn to land reform.De...
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