There may still be a chance to sell. If you're not related or "connected" your application for free land will go no where without a little lubrication ( a bribe ).
In that case, it's possible buying the land might be cheaper than bribing the official to take it for you.
That is unless you need to bribe another official to approve the sale...
It's third world. It's complicated.
They’re communists. They’ll just label the anticommunist black people who bought it collaborators, kill them and take it anyway. Might delay things a bit, but the end result will be the same.