Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Land restitution in South Africa: Post-Apartheid property struggle



The South African Restitution Program's primary goal is to return land that was stolen from blacks during white minority rule. Media portrayals of the struggle for land usually focus on the conflict between white farmers and black landless individuals and communities. In the documentary, this standard paradigm is inapplicable because the apartheid government sold land that it confiscated from one black family (the Ndolilas) to other black families (the Bondholders). The pressing question is: what will the ANC do when the problem is no longer black and white?

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