JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa's minister of land
reform says black farmers have resold nearly 30 percent of the white farmland
bought for them by the government — often back to the previous white owners.
Minister Gugile Nkwinti announced the startling
indicator of failure at Wednesday's launch of a long-delayed government policy
paper to revitalize plans to more equitably distribute agricultural land,
redressing historical wrongs. Seventeen years after white minority rule ended,
the vast majority of agricultural land remains in the hands of some 40,000
white commercial farmers.
Nkwinti said the government had bought 7 percent of
the country's commercial farmland since 1994. He said black farmers had resold
about 2 percent.
Many black farmers have failed for lack of support.
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