Land reform isn't a threat, South Africa's Ramaphosa tells white Afrikaners


FILE PHOTO: South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa speaks after his meeting with Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May in Downing Street, London, April 17, 2018. REUTERS/Hannah McKay/File Photo

CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa told the white Afrikaner community on Thursday that it should not view his government's land reform plans as a threat, but as a way to harness the country's economic potential and heal divisions from the past.

Ramaphosa, who replaced scandal-plagued Jacob Zuma in February, has promised to redistribute land to the black majority to address the deep racial inequality that persists more than two decades after the end of apartheid.

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