The Commission on Restitution of Land Rights is constituted

The commission began receiving and assessing land claims under the Restitution of Land Rights Act. Its work made dispossession legible within a legal process and offered claimants an official route to remedy. Restitution was narrower than a comprehensive land reform programme: it addressed claims within a specific historical period and did not by itself dismantle the concentration of land inherited from colonialism and apartheid.