agriculture

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agriculture in South Africa creates a lot of job opportunities to unemployed people. South Africa is one of the worlds largest producers of: chicory roots, grape fruit, cereals, green maize and maize, castor oil seed, pears, fibre crops and sisal.The South African government has set a target of transferring 30%!o(MISSING)f productive farmland from whites to 'previously disadvantaged' blacks by 2014.Land reform has been criticised both by farmers' groups and by landless workers, the latter alleging that the pace of change has not been fast enough, and the former alleging 'racist' treatment and expressing concerns that a similar situation to Zimbabwe's land reform policy may develop, a fear exacerbated by comments made by former deputy president Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka.

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