ARTICLES RELATING TO
GUGILE NKWINTI
Deputy land claims commissioner Thami Mdontswa has denied that he was invited to a meeting on Tuesday to discuss the reopening of the land claims process.
A meeting will be held to discuss the reopening of the land claims process, the National Land Claims Forum says.
The state's fixation with having 30% of agricultural land under black control by 2014 "wasted a pile of money", the land reform minister is quoted as saying.
The SA government has spent billions of rands to help 600 farms in distress, says Land Reform Minister Gugile Nkwinti.
President Jacob Zuma has made sweeping changes in the transport department, replacing both the the minister and his deputy, following the government's embarrassing handling of the Gauteng e-toll debacle.
Attorney Nomfundo Gobodo has been appointed head land claims commissioner, the department of rural development says.
Land Reform and Rural Development Minister Gugile Nkwinti is considering asking Cabinet to consider exceptions to the 1913 land claim cut-off date.
An announcement on the issue of bogus pieces of land sold at Walmansthal will be made this week, but those who bought it will "inevitably" lose it, Minister of Land Reform Gugile Nkwinti says.
The idea of claiming land without compensation is "out of touch with reality", says Land Reform Minister Gugile Nkwinti.
More than 500 Bhisho families are to split R42m paid by government under the land claims programme after losing their ancestral plots during apartheid.
A senior contingent of ANC officials have arrived in Port Elizabeth to try to quell tensions among its members in Nelson Mandela Bay.
Land claimants who missed the lodging period have appealed for financial compensation, says Land Reform Minister Gugile Nkwinti.
Food shortages will be the first consequence if the ANC changes the Constitution for the sake of land reform, farmers' union TAU SA says.
The ANC will change the constitution if it proves to be a hindrance to land reform, Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform Gugile Nkwinti says.
If aspects of the Green Paper on land reform are unconstitutional, then change the Constitution, Minister Gugile Nkwinti has said in reply to a grilling by a DA MP.
