Last week, the US declassified SA as a developing country for the purposes of receiving certain special and differentiated treatment. The move sent ripples of alarm through the country, which claims preferential treatment on exports of R36bn to the US a year.

America's top diplomat on Wednesday asserted that South Africa's plan to allow expropriation of private property without compensation would be “disastrous” for the country's economy and its people.

The Freedom charter provides that The Land Shall be Shared Among Those Who Work It! and Restrictions of land ownership on a racial basis shall be ended, and all the land re-divided amongst those who work it to banish famine and land hunger.

The Banking Association of South Africa (Basa) has warned that land expropriation without compensation could have a significant impact on property rights in South Africa.

February 11, 1990, was the day millions of black South Africans had been waiting decades for.

For years Zimbabwe has maintained a ban on the importation or growing of genetically modified (GM) maize.