Ramaphosa’s plan to give one group of South Africans 2.5 million hectares of land

• The government will release 2.5 million hectares of state-owned land to black farmers to help boost the country’s agricultural base.
• South Africa relies on a “relatively small segment of the population” to meet its food needs, which is unsustainable, and predominantly white-owned commercial farms account for the bulk of the country’s commercial farming output, while black farmers only account for around 10%.
• The government’s ‘Proactive Land Acquisition Strategy’ releasing 2.5 million hectares of state-owned land across the country to black farmers, the industry also needs to equip them with the skills, mentorship, training, technologies and other resources to farm successfully commercially.