A WHITE farmer whose land came close to being expropriated in March for the resettlement of a black community formally accepted an improved offer for it on Tuesday, government officials said. Chief land claims commissioner Wallace Mgoqi said that cattle farmer Willem Pretorius had agreed to sell his farm in Mpumalanga for R1 285_000 ($160_625). Pretorius was served with a land expropriation notice in March after he rejected an R850_000 offer, saying it was far too low. Mgoqi has admitted the government discovered that the law does not allow for the expropriation of farmland for restitution purposes. The government wants to resettle members of 600 families of the Dinkwanyane community on Pretorius’ farm. They were evicted from the land by the apartheid government in the 1950s and 1960s. – AFP