Land Reform Minister, Gugile Nkwinti spelled out government's 2014 land reform target on Thursday.
Briefing the media at Parliament, he said this was necessary to dispel "confusion" around the figures.
The briefing, by ministers from government's economic sectors and employment cluster, follows President Jacob Zuma's state-of-the-nation address last month, during which he said the pace of land redistribution was "slow and tedious".
Nkwinti said there were 82 million hectares of agricultural land in South Africa "presumed to be in the hands of white commercial farmers".
Government aims to transfer 30 percent of this, a total of 24.5 million hectares, to black farmers by 2014.
