{"id":10228,"date":"2012-04-24T16:29:35","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T14:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/s-africas-apartheid-land-fix-withers-in-fields\/"},"modified":"2012-04-24T16:29:35","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T14:29:35","slug":"s-africas-apartheid-land-fix-withers-in-fields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africas-apartheid-land-fix-withers-in-fields\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa&#8217;s apartheid land fix withers in fields"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Racial tensions stirred by land debate<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Analysts see land issue as a threat to democracy<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Economics make it tough for beneficiaries<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Olivia Kumwenda and Jon Herskovitz<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>SENEKAL, South Africa, April 24 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s<br \/>\nplans to undo the wrongs of apartheid by returning land seized<br \/>\nfrom native blacks is embodied in the life of Koos Mthimkhulu.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>He was born on a white-owned farm in 1955 and attended a<br \/>\nschool set up by white farmers to give him just enough education<br \/>\nfor a life as field hand. A short childhood gave way to decades<br \/>\nof milking cows, driving tractors and ploughing fields for<br \/>\npoverty-level wages.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>When white-minority rule ended in 1994, the new democratic<br \/>\ngovernment made it a priority to return land to those<br \/>\ndispossessed. It wrote the idea into the constitution and made a<br \/>\nplan that would make people like Mthimkhulu independent farmers.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Yet the practice under the African National Congress (ANC)<br \/>\nhas fallen far short of targets and disappointment is stocking<br \/>\nup new risks of social, racial and economic crisis to threaten<br \/>\nthe very democracy intended to save South Africa from disaster.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The post-apartheid government selected Koos Mthimkhulu for a<br \/>\nprogramme under which it would buy agricultural land from white<br \/>\nfarmers and turn parcels over to blacks who had claims on the<br \/>\nterritory. It offered him money, advice and moral support.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Racial tensions stirred by land debate * Analysts see land issue as a threat to democracy * Economics make it tough for beneficiaries By Olivia Kumwenda and Jon Herskovitz SENEKAL, South Africa, April 24 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s plans to undo the wrongs of apartheid by returning land seized from native blacks is embodied [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-10228","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}