During the 2012 State of the Nation Address (SONA), President Jacob Zuma, identified inequality, poverty and unemployment as the foremost challenges confronting South Africa today. He announced some of the initiatives that could contribute to addressing the identified challenges; namely, realisation of a constitutional obligation of restitution of land rights for those who were dispossessed by the Native Land Act of 1913. The Green Paper on Land Reform, which has been widely circulated for public comment, was also identified as an opportunity for extensive public participation in the redesign of the programme of land reform. The Green Paper is expected to provide for measures that could address the challenge of the slow pace of land reform which has been attributed to the 'willing buyer - willing seller' or market-based approaches to land reform. The President called for the most efficient mechanism to address the land question in South Africa.