AfriForum, a lobby group which mainly represents white South Africans, says it has obtained a list of 195 farms which the government is planning to seize from white farmers without compensation. The chair of the African National Congress is on record as saying the government should take land from those who own more than 3,000 acres of land. The Rand, South Africa's currency, fell on financial markets after ANC chair Gwede Mantashe, an ally of President Cyril Ramaphosa, said this week that major landowners should have their land taken without compensation. Ramaphosa, for his part, has publicly denied the existence of the list.
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