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S. Africa's rand is falling, but no one knows why-- Big surprise ....racism suspected.

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Land Restoration in 3 Years [Excerpt] Cape Town - President Thabo Mbeki said on Friday the country's programme to restore land to thousands of families evicted under apartheid would be completed in three years.

"We intend, within the next three years, to complete the land restitution process, which is a critical part of our land reform programme," Mbeki said in the text of a speech prepared for delivery to parliament.

Last week the Commission on Restitution of Land Rights said 36 354 land claims were projected to be settled in the three years to the end of March this year. Some 69 000 claims have been lodged with the commission.

The commission, hamstrung by a shortage of funds, has been criticised by opposition parties and landless blacks for moving too slowly to restore land taken from them by the white-minority government under apartheid, raising fears of a Zimbabwe-style land grab. [End Excerpt]

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See this article for South Africa's future:

Mugabe appoints Zimbabwe intelligence chief head of emergency food task force

Really, just see any article about present-day Zimbabwe to see where Sud Afrika is headed, and soon. I expect no more than 5-6 years, others think 10.

But then you already knew that; others may not.