Land Reform and Rural Development Minister Mzwanele Nyhontso says the high cost of land continues to be one of the stumbling blocks to the pace of land restitution .
The Commission on Restitution of Land Rights reflected on 30 years of the Restitution of Land Rights Act at the Freedom Park Heritage Site in Pretoria on Monday.
The Act was formed to restore land rights to individuals and communities dispossessed due to past racially discriminatory 1913 Native Land Act.
Songs and praises were the order of the day as beneficiaries from different provinces were handed their land tittle deeds after they were forcefully taken from them.
Nhyontso has encouraged people to be patient with the land claim process, as it might take years to fully resolve all the claims.
