Step 1: Reception
The receptionist will check to see whether you have all of the necessary documentation and will advise you.
Step 2: Capturing
The capturing department personnel will assist you with electronically capturing your claim.
Step 3: Confirmation
Following the capture of your claim information, you will get a letter. The letter will include a unique reference number that will demonstrate that you have successfully filed a claim.
Step 4: Notification
Within 48 hours of submitting your claim, you will get an SMS verifying that we have received it. Your claim will be examined, and you will be updated on the status of the investigation at regular intervals or at your request.
How to submit a claim
Claims must be submitted at a designated lodgement office on a defined form, which will be electronically collected throughout the lodgement process. No forms will be distributed. To file a claim, you must go to a lodgement office.
What information do you need?
- A description of the property, such as the farm name and number, or erf or stand number in a city.
- Details about the agency or governmental institution that acquired the property, for example, the Department of Native Affairs.
- This is the year of dispossession.
- How much compensation was given at the time?
- Information on the individual who lost the right.
- Claimant information and the role in which you are acting, such as community representative, son, executor of an estate, etc.
- Land dispossession history
What exactly is a land claim?
A land claim is a formal request submitted with the Commission of Restitution of Land Rights in the specified way by a person, a direct descendant of a person, an estate, or a community for the restitution of land, rights in land, or other equitable remedy.
Who is eligible to file a land claim?
A individual or community that was deprived of a right to land after June 19, 1913 as a result of previous racially discriminatory legislation or practises and who did not receive just and equitable compensation at the time of dispossession may seek restitution or equitable remedy.
