Sunette Bridges: Debunking the “70% White Owned” Myth In summary, the most accurate calculation of Land Ownership of South Africa’s 122 million hectares in 2025 is as follows: Land not owned or occupied by Private Individuals – 46.8%: • State-Owned: 24% • Uninhabitable Land: 12% • Public Land: 0.8% • Mining Land: 5% Land occupied or collectively owned by mostly Black South Africans and some Coloureds and Indians – 17.8%: • Townships: 1.6% • Informal Settlements: 1.2% • Tribal Land: 13% • Other Communal Lands: 2% TOTAL: 64.6% of South Africa’s entire Land mass. Land with mixed ownership by South Africans of all races, not including Farmland and Private, Non-Agricultural Land – 4.6%: • Urban Land: 3%: White (40%); Black (45%); Coloured (10%); Indian (5%) • Residential Land: 1.6%: White (35%); Black (50%); Coloured (10%); Indian (5%) Farmland – Crop-Yielding and Non-Agricultural – 30.8%: • Arable Farmland: 22%: White (50%); Black (25%); Coloured (12%); Indian (8%); Corporate (5%) • Private, Non-Agricultural Land: 8.8%: White (65%); Black (25%); Coloured (5%); Indian (2%); Corporate (3%) The ANC’s refusal to release an Official Land Audit conceals the Inconvenient TRUTH: White South Africans do NOT own 70% of the Land in South Africa! White South Africans own approximately 18.48% of South Africa’s landmass, a far cry from the “70% lie,” covering their homes, farms, and businesses, established over a period of almost 350 years, where they live and work, contributing significantly to the economy and almost 70% of Agricultural GDP, while Black Tribal Lands alone at 13%, nearly match this in landmass, yet cost approximately R8 billion more than they contribute in the more than R1.4 billion cost annually of maintaining their Royal Families, 13 Kings and 2, 700 Chiefs (National Treasury2025), and potential income of more than R10 billion lost due to Corruption and bad farming practices, draining more than they yield (StatsSA 2025, OUTA 2025). White-owned farms employ 610,000 non-White workers, and 970,000 domestic workers and gardeners in White households. This 7.3% Minority contributes more than 50% of South Africa’s Income Tax of R1.2 trillion, supporting more than 18 million grant recipients, yet the ANC scapegoats them for all of the ills in South Africa, including their own failure to sustain Economic Growth and Redistribute that land, including more than 800 farms, they have already Expropriated. (StatsSA 2025, SARS 2025). sunettebridges.com/unfit-to-gover…
