With reference to the under expenditure of R759,7 million in respect of his department’s Programme 4 in the first quarter of the 2017-18 financial year, why have no appropriate and effective steps been implemented by his department to ensure that its target setting and budget forecasting are in alignment with each other, given that his department must be aware of the lengthy verification process involved in the establishment of who the rightful owners of land are;
(2) what steps, if any, have been put in place to streamline the process to ensure that prospective claimants are not left waiting needlessly when a budget for the settling of claimant’s claims is available but unspent;
(3) what (a) percentage of the lengthy verification process of establishing who the rightful owners of the land are is caused by the lack of urgency, capacity or application on the part of his department’s staff and (b) steps are in place to eradicate such unnecessary delays?