Has the South African government redistributed 9.4-million hectares of land, or 7.3-million hectares, since 1994? President Jacob Zuma has laid claim to both figures in two separate speeches. And government officials appear unable to explain the discrepancy.
But the statement contradicted Zuma’s State of the Nation address earlier this year in which he claimed that 4.2-million hectares of land had been transferred to black South Africans and an additional 80,000 land claims, involving around 3.4-million hectares of land, had been settled.
That adds up to a total of 7.6-million hectares, not 9.4-million. It is a difference of 1,800,000 hectares or 18,000 square kilometres, roughly the size of Gauteng province….
