Land Practices

Ethiopia: Country Profile on Land Practices

Country : Ethiopia Area :1,104,300km2 (426,373 sq. mi) Population: 114,963,588 A landlocked country at the horn of Africa, Ethiopia is one of the larger countries in Africa and the second-most populous. Ethiopia is one of two countries in Africa that were never colonized excluding the Italian occupation of the 1930s and ’40s. The country has …

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SOUTH AFRICA LAND REFORMS (PART 2 cont..)

It is estimated that by the end of apartheid, about 60000 white settlers controlled 86% of South Africa’s farmland. This is about 82 million hectares.However black south African’s in rural areas constituting of 30% of the population held less than 15% of the farmland.The latter held their land under informal land tenure systems.Moreover, an estimated …

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SOUTH AFRICA:EARLY LAND EXPROPRIATION-Part 1

South Africa Population: 58 million (2018) Area: 1,220,813 square kilometers The degree to which European settlers—mainly Dutch and British settlers displaced the indigenous people of South Africa was greater than in any other country in Africa..Even though the scramble for Africa was not until the 19th century, South Africa European domination began almost two centuries …

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