Jul 29, 2004
Government has unveiled a draft agricultural charter setting out tough empowerment targets including 35% black ownership of agriculture-based companies by 2014. The draft charter also said that 50% of agricultural land, including that held by the state, should be available to black farmers by 2014. The 50% requirement increases government's earlier target of 30% by adding another 20% of prime farmland that must be leased to black people.
































