In keeping with a recent decision to speed up its land redistribution program, the government of South Africa has served its first official notice expropriating the property of a white farmer, a land affairs official said Friday.
A national land summit, called by the South African government to assess the success of its program to return land confiscated during apartheid to black farmers, ended Sunday with a resolution.
Some 20 million South African voters went to the polls Wednesday for the country's third parliamentary election since the end of the brutal white-dominated apartheid rule in 1994.
In a major policy change for President Thabo Mbeki's government, South African officials Thursday unveiled a program to distribute free AIDS drugs, ending its long-standing opposition to providing anti-retrovirals.
Polls in South Africa have pointed to a big African National Congress victory for weeks, but no one knew how big. Results now indicate that the June 2 election could give the ANC an ample majority in the new parliament.
When the South African voters went to the polls on Wednesday they voted in only the second all-race election to select the new parliament. The following is how their votes will shape the new legislature and choose the next president.
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