No, Deputy Speaker.
The statistics indicate that approximately 26 million ha is state land and that a whopping 96 million ha is privately owned land. This means the state owns 22% of the land, whilst 78% is in private hands, which shows that South Africa has predominantly privately owned land. Outstanding in the audit process is the breakdown into nationality and race in the privately owned parcels or properties.
There is an institutional challenge here. Again it has a lot to do with the fragmented land management services of our country. The Land Management Commission is meant to address this. That is why we say that it will be addressed soon. The political economy of restitution is that the state has paid twice as much for land for restitution as it has paid for land for redistribution, because the state is a compelled buyer. The numbers clearly show who has benefited from the programme - the supporters of the opposition DA. The small, white landed class has benefited R10,8 billion from land acquired, whilst the majority - 71 000 working-class claimants - benefited a lousy R6 billion. [Interjections.]
This is what the Office of the Land Valuer-General and the other institutions will address, through the use of the just and equitable principle in accelerating the land reform process. In addition, the government will establish district land reform committees, as proposed in the National Development Plan, to contribute to and accelerate sustainable land reform.
In 2010, government introduced the Recapitalisation and Development Programme, which serves to provide emerging farmers with a range of support packages, in terms of inputs, strategic support and infrastructure. Going forward, the government will establish the Rural Co-operatives Finance Facility to provide much needed financial and other technical support to the fledgling class of smallholder farmers and co-operatives in both commercial and communal land spaces. During interactions, emerging smallholder farmers and co-operatives have expressed a wish that the government could procure from them so that they could grow and be sustainable.
The state of the nation address delivered by the President on 14 February is both reflective and programmatic. This approach has caught the hon members of the opposition off guard. [Interjections.] Mr President, don't lose focus. If you were doing badly, they would be showering praises on you. [Laughter.] You would have been sitting with the most dubious honour of being praised by people who have benefited for centuries in this country from the resources of this land, the members of the opposition DA. I thank you. [Applause].