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In the next few months South Africa could see a change in its constitution to make explicit plans to confiscate land without compensation.

The growing debate has attracted unwanted comparisons from some quarters with Zimbabwe - not least as much of the land in South Africa still remains in the hands of white farmers.

But the picture is much more complicated, as the Â鶹Éç's Southern Africa correspondent Karen Allen reports.

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