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[QUOTE]Originally posted by kenndo: [QB] whites do not own 90% of farmland in south africa.it was always 78% and that wen t down to around 70% in the past few years. iknow i use to get the south african news letter since 1994. south africa poor is around 15 million for last year out of off. population of 46 million for 2004 the off. population grew to 47 million at the end of last year.south africa added 2 million folks to the upper and middle class in the past three years.most folks in south africa are not poor just like most black americans are not poor,but there is still a large number that is still poor and it seems that both groups are poor but they are not. anyway here is some more good news.all good things come to tose who fight and not just complain.owning most of the farmland is a good way to go by 2015 that is thw plan.by the way the black led gov. owns a large part of land so white own less than 70%.i think the gov. owns about 20% and they plan to give some of this and most of the land own by whites by 2015.about 30% more of it.pogress is happening and more will come.it has only been 12 years and they don't plan to mess this up like in zimb. quote- To help change the situation, President Thabo Mbeki has initiated a policy of "Black Economic Empowerment" (BEE) which is similar to the affirmative action programmes adopted in the United States. Essentially, BEE involves a balancing act of trying to draw blacks into the formal economy without imposing regulations so intrusive that they might end up destroying business. Mbeki has pledged to spend about 2.4 billion dollars to encourage empowerment within the next five years. So far, government has enacted two laws to promote BEE. The first, the Mining Charter, calls for 26 percent of mines to be owned by blacks within a decade. The second law, the Financial Services Charter, seeks to place a quarter of this sector in black hands by 2010. Government is also trying to integrate BEE principles in trade agreements. "Any free trade agreement will have to accommodate black economic empowerment," says Xavier Carim of the Department of Trade and Industry. But a day later Zondi joined IFP leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi and the head of the Solidarity union, Flip Buys, in Pretoria to sign a charter that seeks to address the fears of whites who feel threatened by BEE. Buthelezi said whites were being excluded from appointment and promotion opportunities simply because of their skin colour. Some analysts insist, however, that there is cause for hope in this scenario of apparent doom and gloom. "A great many positive changes took place during the past 10 years," Shoni Makhari of the Johannesburg-based empowerment rating and research agency EmpowerDEX told IPS on Wednesday (Mar. 3). Some of the most noticeable of these changes are at the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE). "The traditionally pale male boardrooms of JSE-listed companies are slowly beginning to embrace diversity," says Vuyo Jack, Chief Executive Officer of EmpowerDEX. "The number of black directors increased last year in line with a trend dating back to 1992 when only 1.2 percent (from) the top 100 JSE listed companies were black." According to EmpowerDEX's latest survey of directors, blacks now make up 14.7 percent of directors at JSE listed companies. Various big firms have also put BEE policies in place. Anglo American, South Africa's largest company, is spending about 1.7 billion dollars to encourage black empowerment. It hopes to fill 40 percent of its local management positions with blacks in five years. Currently, only 20 percent of the positions are held by blacks. i think this is a old article,since than more progress has been made and more is coming. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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