Land and jobs still scarce for blacks - SA

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As a group of visiting academics discovered, it takes just a quick trip to Soweto -- a sprawling black township on the outskirts of Johannesburg -- to be confronted with the problems that still plague South Africa, 10 years after the advent of democracy.

The group of about 200 had been invited to review the first decade of democracy under the auspices of a conference entitled South Africa: Ten Years after Apartheid. The three-day meeting was held in the capital, Pretoria, from March 24 to 26. A local research organisation, the Africa Institute, hosted the conference.

“Blacks ... don’t have land,” observed Fred Hendricks of Rhodes University in South Africa. “Following the end of apartheid, 50% of the land was supposed to be transferred to the landless blacks. But less than 3% has been transferred 10 years later.”

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