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.
