An agency could accelerate land reform by removing the process from political and bureaucratic control.
Young Sandi Sile on an abandoned structure in Makhanda, South Africa, in 2013. Questions remain about how the new law will treat abandoned land.
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The proposed new law has a long history. The country has been trying for almost 12 years now to come up with expropriation legislation that is in line with the constitution.
Villagers till their fields in South Africa’s North West Province. Access to land for small holder farmers remains unresolved.
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A closer look at the resolution of South Africa’s ruling party, the ANC, show that it won’t undertake a radical economic transformation agenda as suggested by media reports.
Land reform remains a divisive subject 23 years after democracy in South Africa.
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After South Africa’s first democratic election in 1994, the previously oppressed and dispossessed black majority hoped for constitutional restitution of their land. This has largely failed.