South Africa does have a history of racist land inequality. Just not in the way Trump and Musk are portraying

South Africa does have a history of racist land inequality. Just not in the way Trump and Musk are portraying

By Lauren Kent and Nimi Princewill, CNN
6 minute read
Updated 5:48 AM EST, Tue February 11, 2025

CNN

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/11/africa/south-africa-land-aid-freeze-trump-intl/index.html

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The so-called land question has been a decades-long dilemma for South Africa.

Apartheid, dismantled in the 1990s, left a deep-seeded legacy of land inequality after centuries of policies pushed non-White South Africans off the land to the benefit of White people. An act in 1913 limited Black ownership to just 7% of the land, later revised to 13%.

Now, more than 100 years later, Black people make up 81% of South Africa’s population of 63 million, yet only own 4% of private land, according to a government land audit conducted in 2017.

A long-debated expropriation act signed by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa last month seeks to right some of the wrongs of apartheid by allowing the government to take land and redistribute it.

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