South Africa at Crossroads on Land Reform

The ruling African National Congress party has said it will amend the constitution as soon as possible to make it easier for it to seize land from white people without compensating them. 
South Africa at Crossroads on Land Reform
Children play near a farm in Limpopo Province, South Africa, on Oct. 31, 2017. Gulshan Khan/AFP/Getty Images
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—In what may be a pivotal point in South Africa’s history, the ruling African National Congress party has said it will amend the constitution as soon as possible to make it easier to seize land from white people without compensating them.

The ANC maintains this is necessary for more equality in land ownership, because most commercial ranches remain in the hands of about 30,000 white farmers in a country once governed by colonial rule.