
Focus on race-based water license allocations
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Black shareholding in new water use licenses is necessary to address the racial imbalance brought about by South Africa's apartheid past, according to government. Proposed legislation by the Department of Water & Sanitation requires farmers to have a black shareholding of between 25% and 75% to obtain water licenses, depending on how much they extract or store. For more detail on the story, Business Day TV spoke to Business Day's Tiisetso Motsoeneng.