South Africa: Why Giving South Africans Title Deeds Isn't the Panacea for Land Reform

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The land reform debate in South Africa has become increasingly polarised since Parliament resolved to consider amending the country's Constitution to allow for the expropriation of land without compensation.

But the slow pace of land reform - a process that aims to address the dispossession of the previously oppressed black majority - will not be solved by amending the Constitution. That's because the main problems with the country's land reform programme have nothing to do with it.

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