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Eugene

(61,939 posts) Sat Feb 14, 2015, 08:54 PM Feb 2015

South Africa's Zuma outlines land reform plans

Source: BBC

14 February 2015 Last updated at 23:58 GMT

South Africa's Zuma outlines land reform plans

Foreigners will be banned from owning land in South Africa under new proposals outlined by President Jacob Zuma.

Locals will have limits set on the size of their farms under the proposals.

Mr Zuma first announced them in a state of the nation speech on Thursday overshadowed by violence in parliament.

Two decades after the end of apartheid, land is still concentrated in the hands of a largely white minority, and remains a sensitive issue.

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Mr. Zuma needs to consider the virtues of inheritance taxes as a way to reclaim land. bemildred Feb 2015 #1

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1. Mr. Zuma needs to consider the virtues of inheritance taxes as a way to reclaim land.

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Sun Feb 15, 2015, 06:24 AM

Feb 2015

Taking it from the present owners will be difficult, and divisive, but there is no need to let it pass along untouched to their descendants. No need to do it all in one generation either. People always get in such a hurry.

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