Twenty-eight years after the initial deadline to lodge land claims, 5,160 claims still remain to be finalised. Although a new lodging window was briefly opened between 2014 and 2016, the Constitutional Court intervened with a critical directive: all "old order" claims submitted prior to the December 1998 deadline must be completely settled before any "new order" claims can be processed. Colleen Makhubele spoke to Henk Smith Land Access Movement of South Africa, Molatelo Mohale – Programme Officer at Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) and Zahrah Nordien Chairman and Director of the District 6 Working committee.