Tension between government departments complicates effective policy making and implementation. Therefore, richer people within communities come to dominate. The church has always been closely associated with government in the past. Christian churches make up the largest land-owning religious group in South Africa.
Churches are significant land-owners as private institutions.
Generally they own good quality land. Hopefully churches are willing to assist in the transformation of land reform, in addressing the inadequacies of the past. Churches ought not move away after land transfer happens. They have a constructive, long term role. There is an on going process of involvement on the part of churches.