SOUTH AFRICAN GOV. STEALS PRIVATE LAND

'Whichever way you dress it up, it's theft': EXCLUSIVE - White farmer who is set to become the first to have his £10m game reserve seized in South Africa's controversial land grab policy says government just wants to mine for minerals

• Johan Steenkamp, 67, says his £10million game reserve in South African is being seized by the government
• He claims he bought uninhabited and unused land 20 years ago, but a tribe claims land is theirs 
• He has been fighting to stop government buying it for 'below value' and has now been told to give it up 
• Prime Minister Cyril Ramaphosa is trying to accelerate land expropriation  in South Africa 
• New policy will see farmland owned by white farmers seized by the government without payment
• Steenkamp calls it 'theft' and says government just wants to mine for coal and won't give it to poor blacks

By JAMIE PYATT IN CAPE TOWN FOR MAILONLINE and SARA MALM FOR MAILONLINE

PUBLISHED: 08:19 EDT, 24 August 2018 | UPDATED: 09:55 EDT, 24 August 2018

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