| | OECD Review of Agricultural Policies - South Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) |
 | | There are still many challenges facing the government and South African society as a whole, including widespread unemployment and poverty, a large unskilled work force excluded from the formal economy, weak social and educational systems, a significant level of crime and a high prevalence of HIV/AIDS. |
 | | South African agriculture is of a highly dualistic nature, where a developed commercial sector co-exists with a large number of subsistence (communal) farms. |
 | | South Africa has undergone immense social and economic change over the last 20 years led by the abolition of apartheid and dramatic domestic policy reforms aimed at creating a more open and market-oriented economy, as well as by the general global changes like the international trade regimes. |
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