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24 April 2007 07:16

Too often land for the poor is demarcated in apartheid fashion far from employment opportunities, President Thabo Mbeki told the South African Local Government Association (Salga) conference in Midrand on Monday.

"Except for a few cases, there is still a settlement pattern for poor black people to be on the outskirts of town, far from employment," he said. "It is unacceptable for the allocation of land close to employment centres to be solely for the upper end of the income market."