Cape Town - Since 1994, nearly 5 000 farms, comprising 4.2 million hectares, have been transferred to black people, President Jacob Zuma said in his State of the Nation address on Thursday.
This benefited more than 200 000 families, he said.
"Nearly 80 000 land claims, totalling 3.4 million hectares, have been settled and 1.8 million people have benefited.
"The next administration will need to take forward a number of policy, legislative and practical interventions, to further redress the dispossession of our people of their land," Zuma said.