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Some 90% of farms redistributed to South Africa's black population from white farmers are not productive, the government has said. Land reform minister Gugile Nkwinti warned the land might be repossessed if the farms continued to fail. Almost 60,000 sq km (23,000 sq miles) have been redistributed under policies aimed at benefiting black people who were left impoverished by apartheid. The land was bought from white farmers who sold up voluntarily. The BBC's Pumza Fihlani in Johannesburg says some black farmers are likely to argue that they have been struggling to get the resources and skills to develop their land....

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use.BERN, Switzerland - Switzerland will end public access to archives documenting its links with apartheid-era South Africa for fear the material might fuel class-action lawsuits in the United States, the government said Thursday. The archives were opened in May 2000 as part of a national research program to investigate Swiss relations with the South African government during the era of racial segregation. The Swiss finance ministry said no other country offered comparable access, but it feared the records would put Swiss firms at a disadvantage in pending class-action lawsuits. In November, U.S....