White SA farmer land sale first

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By Peter Biles
BBC News, Johannesburg

A white South African farmer whose land had been earmarked for the first commercial expropriation has reached a sales agreement with the government.
The authorities want to transfer 30% of commercial farmland to black ownership by 2014, but progress has been slow.

The case of Hannes Visser’s farm has been seen as a test of the government’s determination to speed up the delicate process of land reform.

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