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Keep the land, give us cash: Poverty forces communities to choose money over restoration

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The community of Xwili choose money over having land.
The community of Xwili choose money over having land.
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Poverty is so rife in the country that some communities choose to be financially compensated rather than have their land restored.

This comes as political parties and proponents of land restoration, such as the EFF, question why people are given the option to choose money rather than land in the first place.

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