"Hectare after hectare"

10 years after the first democratic elections in South Africa, a Focus team visits the Limpopo and Mpumalanga provinces to find out what progress has been made with land reform.

Producer Karin d’Orville and cameraman Ivan Oberholzer concentrate in particular on land which new owners received as a result of government’s restitution programme.

Zebediela is an example of how the Dept. of Land Affairs would like to see its restitution programme succeed: new owners rely on the financing and skills of strategic partners to make their farms successful ventures.

But the Focus team also visits a tobacco farm and a pig farm which cost government millions of Rands but which don’t produce anything at the moment.  The new owners have left.

Politicians get the opportunity to evaluate land reform in South Africa so far and attorney dr. Philip du Toit talks about his controversial book, The Great South African Land Scandal.

“Poor municipal services for the town of Joubertina in the Eastern Cape”

The community in Eastern Cape town of Joubertina is up in arms over poor service delivery by their municipality. Just last week water supply was so poor that many residents where without water for days. On top of it the water purification system did not work, resulting in the water coming out of the tap looking as black as Coca-Cola.

Further the sewerage collection system in town in poor resulting in sewerage running down the main street because of overflowing tanks.

Producer Keith Sayster,  presenter Freek Robinson and cameraman Roy Freeman visited Joubertina to investigate the situation.

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