Many South Africans remain poor and unemployment is high
? a factor blamed for a wave of violent attacks against
migrant workers from other African countries in 2008 and
protests by township residents over poor living conditions
during the summer of 2009.
Land redistribution is a crucial problem that continues
existing. Most farmland is still white-owned. ________ land
acquisition on a "willing buyer, willing seller" basis, officials
have signaled that large-scale expropriations are on the
cards. The government aims to transfer 30% of farmland to
black South Africans by 2014.
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Mark the alternative that completes the gap with the correct
verbal tense.