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Gugile Nkwinti, the Minister of Water and Sanitation, reportedly unduly used his influence to secure a R97,6 million farm in Limpopo for a friend and his business partner during his tenure as Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform (DRDLR).

“Land will not be taken arbitrarily. Nobody will just grab your land.” This was the reassurance given by the Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform, Gugile Nkwinti, towards foreign landowners at a media briefing in Parliament recently.

Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform, Gugile Nkwinti, has called for a pre-colonial audit of land ownership as well as constitutional amendments to allow for land restitution without compensation.

The implementation of a land reform plan that proposes that 50% of all commercial farms be transferred to farm workers could have disastrous consequences for farmers and farm workers alike.

The recent ANC policy proposals around land reform made by the minister of Rural Development and Land Reform, Gugile Nkwinti pose a constitutional dilemma that would serve no good purpose other than to destroy the already precarious Rural and Agricultural economy of South Africa.

The recent announcement by Rural Development and Land Reform Minister Gugile Nkwinti, that farmers would have to give away half their land to workers, has sparked alarm and uncertainty within the farming community.

Some 21% of sugar cane land is currently under black ownership, up from 5% in 1994, SA Sugar Association (SASA) chairperson Bongani Linda said at a sugar cane industry event in Durban on 30 August.

Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform Gugile Nkwinti should reconsider the new land acquisition system under which black farmers are not given title to land.

Having had quite enough of the constant stream of criticism from fed-up farmers about the various failures of land reform, minister of rural development...

The government's model of land restitution creates problems, admitted Gugile Nkwinti, minister of rural development and land reform.

The land reform department's recapitalisation and development programme for failed land reform farms has got off to a slow start, with the department spending less than 20% of the R900 million available within the first eight months of the current financial year.

Gugile Nkwinti, the Minister of the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS), recently announced that farmers in the Western Cape would soon be allocated 90% of the water volume they were receiving before the province was hit by drought three years ago.