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Thu 11 Nov 2009Farmland transfer way off target, South Africa admits
SOUTH AFRICA will miss its 2014 deadline to transfer almost one-third of all agricultural land to black farmers, land reform officials have said.
The department of rural development and land reform has conceded that 15 years into democracy only 5 per cent of the agricultural land it wanted to transfer to the black majority had been successfully acquired from white farmers.
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