South Africa To Limit Farm Sizes To Speed Land Redistribution

South Africa’s government is planning to impose limits on farm sizes to free up parcels of land to hand over to blacks, a minister said Saturday, giving insight into the workings of a divisive redistribution scheme.

Gugile Nkwinti, the minister of rural development and land reform, told Reuters the government was planning to set a range of limits — from a 1,000-hectare (2,470-acre) “small-scale” farm, up to the largest allowed, at 12,000 hectares.