{"id":14073,"date":"2012-08-31T03:29:30","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T01:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/s-african-sugar-sector-says-21-pct-land-in-black-hands\/"},"modified":"2012-08-31T03:29:30","modified_gmt":"2012-08-31T01:29:30","slug":"s-african-sugar-sector-says-21-pct-land-in-black-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-african-sugar-sector-says-21-pct-land-in-black-hands\/","title":{"rendered":"S.African sugar sector says 21 pct land in black hands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">DURBAN, South Africa<\/span> Aug 30 (Reuters) &#8211; Blacks own 21<br \/>\npercent of land under commercial sugarcane production in South<br \/>\nAfrica, inching closer to a 30 percent target set to undo racial<br \/>\nimbalances in land ownership, the chairman of the country&#8217;s<br \/>\nsugar association said on Thursday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Bongani Linda told an industry gathering the percentage of<br \/>\nland under black ownership in the sugar sector had risen to that<br \/>\nfigure from just 5 percent in 1994, when apartheid ended.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are confident &#8230; we will achieve the target of 30<br \/>\npercent by 2014,&#8221; Linda said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Linda also said investment in the sector was being curtailed<br \/>\nas 130,000 hectares, or 39 percent of the area under commercial<br \/>\nsugarcane production, was subject to restitution claims.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This usually refers to claims by communities or individuals<br \/>\nfor land they say was forcibly taken from them or their families<br \/>\nin the past during the apartheid era.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South Africa has set a target of handing over 30 percent of<br \/>\ncommercial farmland to blacks by 2014 but progress has been<br \/>\nslow, prompting a review of the policy. <\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Olivia Kumwenda; Editing by Ed Stoddard)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DURBAN, South Africa Aug 30 (Reuters) &#8211; Blacks own 21 percent of land under commercial sugarcane production in South Africa, inching closer to a 30 percent target set to undo racial imbalances in land ownership, the chairman of the country&#8217;s sugar association said on Thursday. Bongani Linda told an industry gathering the percentage of land [&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-14073","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\/14073","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=14073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}