The government will speed up efforts to identify and release public land that is suitable for urban settlements and farming, President Cyril Ramaphosa said during his state of the nation address (Sona) on Thursday night.

The state has a massive property portfolio of more than 93,000 buildings and about 1.9-million hectares of land under the custodianship of the department of public works...

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