2.14 Ms. Maria Mateza Ms. Mateza, a trained black female farmer, bought a piece of agricultural land in 1983. The land did not form part of any traditional authority. Realising that Ms. Mateza owns that land, the Chief of Gcina Tribal Authority began claiming that he owned the same land on which she farmed and she was evicted. She was informed that as a woman she could not own any land. She attempted in vain to claim the land in terms of the Restitution of Land Rights Act, 22 of 1994. However, she was informed that government only took claims of people who were dispossessed by Whites. In 1990s, she was promised financial compensation but she found it unsatisfactory as a farmer. She now lives in a shack, a life that she is unaccustomed to. She blames this on the ruthless chiefs and the fact that she is a woman. She urged parliament to repeal the BAA in its entirety.