«Social - republican property can be distinguished from the more conventional notion of capital ownership, which might be called «liberal private» property, by two features: first, transfer or alienation restraints that confine control of the property to active or potentially active participants in a community constituted by the property, and second, accumulation restraints designed to limit inequality among members of such a community. (blog.politics.ox.ac.uk)
This claim is well presented by Louis and Patricia Kelso in Democracy and Economic Power, 4 in which the Kelsos argue that because of the disparities in capital ownership we do not now have the equality of opportunity necessary for free enterprise capitalism, or economic (in addition to political) democracy. (religion-online.org)
Further, given the multi-ethnic make - up of the society, it was also desirable to ensure that the share capital ownership was equitably spread out among the different communities. (religion-online.org)