NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
WRITTEN REPLY
QUESTION 1256
INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER [NO 16-2009]
DATE OF PUBLICATION: 11 September 2009
1256. Mrs A Steyn (DA) to ask the Minister of Rural Development and Land
Reform:
Whether his department has done any virements of money from the Proactive
Land Acquisition Strategy (PLAS) or Land Redistribution for Agricultural
Development (LRAD) programmes to the pilot projects; if not, from which
programme was the money taken; if so, (a) what amount, (b) from what
programme and (c) what impact will it have on the programmes for which the
money was originally budgeted?
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THE MINISTER OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND LAND REFORM
The Department of Rural Development and Land Reform (DRDLR) has, through
the 2009 Adjustment Estimates of National Expenditure (AENE) process,
applied for the shifting of funds from the transfer and subsidies budget
under Programme 5: Land and Tenure Reform to fund rural development
activities including the pilot projects under the Comprehensive Rural
Development Programme (CRDP), but this process has not been finalised. In
line with the Public Finance Management Act, 1999 and relevant financial
prescripts, the DRDLR is currently funding the pilot projects from the
suspense account as an interim measure until the 2009 AENE process has been
finalised.
(a) A virement of R505 444 750.00 has been requested.
(b) Programme 5: Land and Tenure Reform.
(c) The performance target for land redistribution will be reviewed for
the current financial year, which could further impact on the target
of redistributing 30% of white-owned agricultural land to land reform
beneficiaries by 2014.