White Farms and Black Farms: Will South African Land Finally Shed Apartheid’s Proportions?
CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA — The first thing a casual visitor will notice about a white-owned South African farm is its size. In summer, the typical commercial farm here is greener than imagination, and stretches seemingly into another day, beginning at a fencepost, or frontage road and ending, a few thousand acres later, at the sky, or on the banks of a gleaming river.