South Africa’s Cabinet has approved a Bill that would speed up its land reform programme aimed at transferring 30% of farmland to black ownership by 2014, a government spokesperson said on Thursday. An existing land expropriation act has failed to make significant inroads into land redistribution.
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/ 5 September 2007
South Africa’s editors and the government’s legal team will meet ”as a matter of urgency” over concerns about the Film and Publication Bill. This was announced in a statement jointly issued by the government and the South African National Editors’ Forum after talks at Tuynhuys in Cape Town on Wednesday.