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soya bean 75%, and yellow corn 50%). According to the Department of Land Affairs, 50% of
redistributed land has failed, partly because the parcels are too small to support farming.
On the other hand, between 1994 and 2009, 2.8 million new housing units were built to
remove 13.9 million people from so called “informal” shanty town housing, with another
quarter of a million to be built in 2010. My brother, through his municipality, has built some
10,000 units and has largely cleared the squatter camps by moving people into good housing
with water, electricity, and sanitation.
Aloes and Cacti In front of Shanty Town at Pietermaritzburg
Shanty Village before Storm
He has also helped with the construction of the new interesting art memorial and museum
commemorating the place near Lions River where Nelson Mandela was captured on the train
after visiting Albert Luthuli in December 1962. Mandela was arguing for armed insurrection in
the belief that just like Cuba, the apartheid regime could be overthrown by the communist party
support, but Luthuli, a pastor, missionary and teacher, born in Bulawayo, believed in peaceful
resistance like Martin Luther King. He was awarded the Nobel Peace prize in 1960. Mandela
formed Umkhonto we Sizwe in December 1961, the ANC military wing, without Luthuli's
knowledge after the Sharpville and Langa massacres. In the thirty years of activity
approximately 10 bombs (including the Koeberg nuclear reactor, street bombs, and hamburger
fast food outlets) were exploded, between 30 and 150 landmines detonated, and about 230
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