06-02-2015 14:29 via news.yahoo.com

South Africa's ANC talks left on land as unrest flares

By Ed Stoddard DIEPSLOOT, South Africa (Reuters) - South Africa's government has built close to 4 million houses for low-income families since the end of apartheid in 1994. Lizzie Mboweni is one of millions still waiting for one. Last Saturday she joined scores of squatters from Diepsloot, a shantytown north of Johannesburg, in a violent attempt to grab plots in an unused field across the road, part of a campaign of land invasions launched by the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), an ultra-le
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