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Government warned of land problems

Swaziland's legislators have warned the government it may face land problems similar to the Zimbabwe situation if the Kingdom continued to allow white farmers to buy farms ahead of Swazis, PANA news agency reported.

It quoted Senator Richard Dlamini as saying the late King Sobhuza once decreed that land in the tiny kingdom sandwiched between Mozambique and South Africa should only be sold to locals. He said that Sobhuza had been trying to avert the type of situation now happening in Zimbabwe.


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