Pledging to resolve the ‘land question’ has been a perennial theme for the ANC. For the most part, this has been approached as a political rather than an economic or developmental question. Actual land reform – at least in its agrarian manifestation – has never been a priority, and its successes have been modest.
South Africa’s draft water-use regulations – which would subject water licences to strict racial quotas – reflect a deeply deficient process, and are in any event ultra vires (outside the accepted powers of the minister), says the Institute of Race Relations (IRR).
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