South Africa's ANC to introduce amended land claims bill in May

South Africa's ruling party will introduce an amended land rights bill in parliament in May after the top court declared invalid a law that re-opened a process for blacks to make claims on land taken from them during white-minority rule. The Restitution of Land Rights Bill, allowing state expropriations of land to redress racial disparities, was among the first laws passed by the country's first democratic government in November 1994. President Jacob Zuma signed an amended act in June 2014 to allow those who had missed out on making claims to do so.