Give me three more months, land minister tells District Six claimants

The minister said the department was still willing to provide only R351m of the potential R11bn the tentative plan could cost, and nothing more."As we sit here, that is all we have."Geoff Budlender, representing the District Six Working Committee, pushed the minister to admit the department did not fulfil a court order from November 2018 to come up with a restitution plan in three months. She refused to take complete blame.

Nkoana-Mashabane said the department needed additional three months to confirm the plan. But acting judge Thembeka Ngcukaitobi questioned if the department would abide by this self-imposed time constraint. The minister confirmed it would. The courtroom was packed with about 100 claimants listening intently. Nearly 1,000 claimants have been waiting since 1998 to return to District Six.

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