Thank you, Chair. Briefly, to address the institutional weaknesses in land management policy and legislation alluded to earlier, there is a need for a land management institution that will be autonomous but not independent, and characterised by accountability, transparency and professionalism; have the power to subpoena, to inquire on own volition or at the insistence of interested parties; to verify or validate title deeds; to demand declaration of landholdings and grant amnesty and/or lead to prosecute; and to ensure that state land will not be disposed of but rather leased.
Finally, I am pleased to announce that over the past few months the department has been focusing on the development of a Green Paper on agrarian transformation, rural development and land reform, which will articulate and elaborate on some of the measures mentioned above. It is intended to culminate in a new land policy framework and an omnibus of legislation, which should be consolidating all land-related laws. The Green Paper will soon be presented to this House. Of great importance in the Green Paper is that we will propose that for South Africa to achieve equitable access and sustainable land use, the current land tenure system must be overhauled in this regard.
We propose as follows: a three-tier land tenure system, namely state land under leasehold, private land under freehold with limited extent, and foreign ownership with precarious tenure, linked to productivity and partnership models with South African citizens. The above system will be based on a categorisation model informed by land-use needs at the level of household, smallholder and commercial farming. Thank you, Mr Chairperson. [Applause.]