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Land reform: what still needs to be done?

The views expressed in our weekly opinion piece do not necessarily reflect those of Farmer’s Weekly.

Peter Setou is the CEO of the Vumelana Advisory Fund, a nonprofit organisation that works with land reform beneficiaries to make their land productive by facilitating partnerships between communities and investors who have access to capital and markets. Visit vumelana.org.za.

“Many South Africans believe that government is far behind schedule in reaching its threshold of redistributing at least 30% of land to black South Africans almost 30 years into the

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