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Land is a heated issue in South Africa – the print media are presenting only one side of the story

By Mandla J. Radebe, Associate Professor and Director, University of Johannesburg
Sarah Chiumbu, Associate Professor, University of Johannesburg

The land question was at the heart of the South African national liberation struggle. The 1913 Natives Land Act restricted black people from owning and occupying parts of the country, leading to whites owning about 87% of the land. This reduced the African majority to “pariahs in the land of their birth”, in the 1916 words of Sol…

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