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Land reform: time to dust off the partnership plan

It looks as if the drastic lockdown measures against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) have, to some extent, doused the hottest flames of the expropriation without compensation (EWC) discourse in South Africa.

Perhaps Moody’s Investor Service’s long-expected downgrading to ‘junk’ status and Fitch Ratings’ further downgrading into sub-investment grade, together with the record lows in the value of the rand, have also played a role.

‘NINETY PERCENT OF LAND REFORM PROJECTS HAVE FAILED’

One gets the impression that a growing number of the ANC’s decision-making elite are beginning to better understand the disastrous

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