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White South Africans, including Afrikaners, make up 7.2% of the population but hold 72% of individually-owned farmland, according to a 2018 government land audit.

"In the meantime, the government has started looking for alternative government land to resettle the villagers," he added.

He also issued orders related to the development of data centres on government land, which spotlighted a role for clean energy in powering the centres.

District Magistrate Vandana Singh said the mosque and the madrassa were demolished because they were illegally built on government land and were not registered as religious structures.

On Thursday, thousands of protesters tried to block government officials and police who arrived to demolish the seminary and mosque following a court order that the structures were being built on government land without local authorization, Anshuman said.