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10/22/2004:

"Fears of Zimbabwe-Style Backlash in SA"

The land crisis in Zimbabwe had its roots in exactly the same policy that was bedevilling SA's land-reform process, namely an unsustainable market driven approach, a parliamentary committee was told yesterday.

On the third and final day of the agriculture and land affairs committee's hearings on the pace of land reform, the belief that it was simply a land grab was contradicted by Nhamo Samasuwo of the Institute for Global Dialogue.

He said the same bureaucratic tendencies that bogged down Zimbabwe's land reform in the 1980s were happening in SA.

Full Article : rastafarispeaks.com