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South Africa land: a ticking time bomb.
The plan in 1994 was to redistribute 30% of white-owned land within five years. It did not happen. Instead only 2% of the 87% of the best land in the country owned by whites has been redistributed so far. And time is running out. It could make Zimbabwe look like a picnic.
It will either be a mutually assured destruction (MAD) or a mutually assured prosperity (MAP). The key will be a concerted multiracial effort to empower the deeply wronged black people of this country, beginning with a fast track re-distribution of land driven by the people-centred African philosophy of Ubuntu (I am because you are). A lot will also depend on the willingness of white owners--beneficiaries of apartheid--to properly reconcile, and a commitment to put their ...See the full content of this document
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