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Land - Land Reform - Duty of State - failure to comply with Constitutional imperatives - decision not be sell land to an African farmer who qualified for a grant - failure to convert tenuous land rights when able to do so - amounting to a breach of Constitutional obligation.

Administrative action- review - Failure to furnish reasons, failure to act rationally, failure to act reasonably, failure to hear an affected person - decision not to sell State land to 78 year old applicant but to a decide on a long term (30 years) lease reviewable on all these grounds.