. Restitution: The Commission on Restitution of Land Rights has settled 95% of the total 79,696 land claims lodged since 1998. Figure 1 below suggests that it may have been less demanding to settle claims through cash compensation. The majority of claims settled were cash compensation as opposed to land restoration where little land was restored to land claimants. The overall picture is that the commission has processed more urban than rural claims. A bulk of the outstanding claims are mostly rural and are of a complex nature, involving national strategic assets such as national parks, forestry land, commercial farms linked foreign export markets, as well as land with mining operations. These claims will require a substantive budget allocation.