# The DA says the Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development has failed to process existing claims despite having had the legal framework, time, and funding to do so. To date, over 52-billion-rand has been spent on land restitution. The DA’s, Sonja Boshoff, says more than five-thousand-700 land claims lodged before the original 1998 cut-off remain unresolved, with provinces such as KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo and Mpumalanga carrying the heaviest backlogs:
DA says over 5,700 land claims remain dormant [SOUND]
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