I agree, give Africans their share.
Reverse the clock to the moment that the Europeans arrived.
Where the African tribes were then, is where the debate can begin.
As time passed, African tribal borders changed a bit, until the way it is now.
African tribal leaders must decide on on the exact lines to be accepted, between them for the final map.
The tribes that were at a historically agreed geographical area, will then as a present population, "theoretically" own and thus share the land of that specific area.
IE: The Khoi had the Western Cape. The Xhosa had the Eastern Cape. The Zulu had Kwa-Zulu Natal.
Each such tribal geographical area, is then "theoretically" divided amongst all of that tribe.
Some areas will, because of the present tribal population, allow each member of the tribe to receive a certain amount of "theoretical" square meters of land, which will be larger for some tribes' members and smaller for others, but totally fair, as per the history of the country.
The land that Europeans or foreigners or Africans not of an SA tribe, own presently, in each tribal area, is then subtracted from the total already owned by the tribe and government.
The rates and taxes from the land owned by Europeans or foreigners or Africans not of an SA tribe, is then separated from the tribal and government lands'.
This rates and taxes amount is then increased by a minimal amount by spreading the percentage amongst the various individual taxes collected, from Europeans or foreigners or Africans not of an SA tribe, to allow the purchase of a maximum of square meters of land, as allowed for each member of the various SA tribes, per the map and the "theoretical" square meters, for all who do NOT yet own any land.
Those who already own land, are merely paid out the market related monetary value of prime, undeveloped farmland, in the tribal area.
The tax starts at a set date, with the numbers reflected by the national census and the individual tribal census, at as soon a date as possible, since the the population keeps growing, thus making any land distribution scheme to every individual SA tribal African impossible otherwise. The reparations for the past, cannot be carried on forever, by paying people to have babies to get land for each. In fact, the land for each is simply less, continuously.
The tax stops, when the various tribal members reflected at the start of the tax, are all paid for their allowed square meters of land.
The exact amount paid by the tax, to the various tribal members, per square meter of land, can now easily be market related, as required by the present owners.
In this way, each African, of South Africa, receives the true value of the land, that is theirs to claim.
Each present owner receives their market value.
Each region and the Europeans or foreigners or Africans not of an SA tribe, that benefit from it, thus pays for the land, that SA Africans cannot afford, but also, a token monetary value to those that already own land.
In this way, SA can allow the entire country to conclude the painful past, centered on the land issue.
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