Land Seizures in South Africa

The government in South Africa has forcibly seized two farms. This is the beginning of a policy that was recently passed through their parliament in which any private individual or group who owns more than 25,000 acres of land is obliged to surrender it to the state. This is not called "theft" it is called "expropriation". In the same way that the great bank robbery in Cyprus a few years was called a "levy", see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-bank-robbers-of-cyprus.html. The Department of Rural Development and Land Reform... another Orwellianism, targeted the two farms because negotiations to buy the properties from the owners had broken down. This is hardly surprising considering the government only offered twenty million rands; that's about one and a half million pounds. This is barely ten percent of what it's worth. This is calculated on the size of the land being about ten times the legal limit of 25,000 acres. Anything over that is seized without compensation. The justification for this larceny is multifaceted and vague. It ranges from Marxist economics to reparations for historical injustices, whether real or perceived. The fact that the farmers are invariably white is a major factor in South Africa which is intoxicated by institutional racism (Yes, white people can be the victims of racism too). A lot of the farmland in South Africa is actually in regions that were uninhabited before the arrival of white settlers, therefore unclaimed by native peoples. What's more, the black tribes of recent history in the region themselves conquered a lot of territory from the Khoi and San Bushmen, who are racially, culturally and linguistically distinct from the Niger-Congo language-speaking modern black South Africans. Should the black South Africans then give up their rights to the nation in favour of the Bushmen? Do you see how absurd this whole concept is? Many of today's South African farmers are descended from the early voortrekkers and have husbanded the harsh terrain for over two hundred years, fighting with the dry hot climate. They are fiercely dedicated and proud of their land. It is some of the most productive farmland in Africa, a continent which itself is potentially the greatest agricultural region of the earth. The very name for their entire culture Boer, means "farmer" in Afrikaans. The white population of South Africa today have had to endure a thousand indignities as the government blames each and every one of them personally for Apartheid, for the slave trade, for everything bad that has ever happened in the country in all of its centuries of history. They openly stir up public racial hatred that has spilled over into a campaign of brutal murders. As this new documentary shows, the Boers' plight counts as a silent genocide to which the global community is turning its back, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_bDc7FfItk.

The South African government believes that the land should be distributed equally to the South African people in the hope that they can create a more egalitarian form of collectivized agriculture. Source: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1005725/south-africa-farm-seizures-white-farmers-cyril-ramaphosa-anc. However by taking away the land from the most expert and experienced people who owned the land directly and cared for it as part of their living, breathing legacy will result in a collapse of the infrastructure. Also I have no doubt that corrupt elements of the state will simply sell the land to the Chinese neo-colonialists anyhow. Either way the yield from the farms is going to plummet. The pastures will become fallow, the seedbeds will become choked with weeds and the irrigation channels and wells will clog up. What could be, and should be, the bread basket of Africa will completely go to seed. How do I know this will happen? Because it's already happened before, to Zimbabwe following its so-called "independence" in 1980. South Africa is not learning the lesson of its northern neighbour; or else it's deliberately repeating its errors. There will be a famine and economic collapse. Food surplus exports make up twelve percent of South Africa's gross domestic product; that's over nine billion pounds a year. Since 1980 a quarter of Zimbabwe's population, white and black, have fled the country; but most of them fled to South Africa. Once South Africa falls into the same hellhole as Zimbabwe, where will they go then? There will be a massive refugee crisis and a probably civil war as a result of this folly. You might wonder why anybody could so obviously do something so stupid and unfortunately it happens all the time everywhere. However in South Africa this foolishness tends to be most distilled and visible. In the background links I provide reason to believe it is a deliberate fraud on the part of a tiny group of power-mongers, not just inadvertent incompetence. I can only hope that sanity and justice returns to that troubled land in time to save it and prevent a terrible tragedy, both within its borders and across the world at large.

See here for background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2013/12/nelson-mandela-dies.html.

And: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2013/12/rhodes-house.html.

And: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2018/08/right-wing-conspiracy.html.

And: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2017/11/mugabe-gone-from-zimbabwe.html.