Progress in the area of land restitution—compensation for black South Africans known to have been dispossessed—has been slow
was eroding its base of black voters, and keen to make life difficult for Mr Ramaphosa, the left wing of the party persuaded it to support “expropriation without compensation”. The government is now committed to amending the constitution.
Any discussion of land in South Africa must reckon with the unequal legacy of white rule. It must also recognise that since 1994 the’s approach to land has involved administrative incompetence and widespread corruption. That has meant the poorest, landless South Africans continue to suffer. Today more land is under black ownership. Although there is no comprehensive audit of land based on the race of owners, a paper by Wandile Sihlobo and Tinashe Kapuya estimates that 17.4m hectares have been transferred from white ownership since 1994, equivalent to 21% of freehold farmland. This includes land bought by the state or by individuals on the open market.
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