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As South Africa marks the 10th anniversary of the end of apartheid, the country, along with neighboring Namibia, is struggling with how to redistribute historically white-owned land to black farmers -- an issue that has weakened the economy of its trade partner Zimbabwe and given rise to tensions between wealthy whites and poor blacks.
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A South African farmOctober 17, 2005
South Africa Serves First Seizure Notice on White Farmer
The government of South Africa Thursday served its first expropriation notice on a white farmer, making good on a recent promise to speed up its land redistribution program and return white owned land to black farmers. The land owner, served with the notice to sell his land or face forced eviction, said he will fight the case in court.

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Dispatch from South Africa
After reporting on land affairs and the economy of Southern Africa for the past 30 years, Financial Mail reporter Peter Honey in Johannesburg offers his view on the challenges facing governments as they make plans for accelerated land redistribution programs and the effects those plans are having on local farmers, both black and white.
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