Madam Deputy Speaker, Minister Nkwinti, we know that the last time that the ANC government had plans to limit foreign ownership of land, one of your predecessors, the Minister of Land Affairs, Thoko Didiza, commissioned a study which found that only 5% of land was foreign-owned in 2004. As a consequence of these results, she abandoned plans to limit foreign ownership.
Given your recent remarks, in June this year, in which you said that government would, nevertheless, be pursuing a policy of "precarious tenure" to restrict land ownership by foreign nationals, and given your Deputy Minister's remark that government wishes to "guard against the danger that prime land in South Africa gets snapped up by foreigners as this would push up prices", have you instituted or do you plan to institute a research study to establish how much land is foreign-owned, as was done by your predecessor, and to assess the risks and the benefits to the rural economy of such a policy proposal? If not, why not; and, if so, what are the relevant details?