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Thread ID: 20348 | Posts: 13 | Started: 2005-09-23
2005-09-23 07:24 | User Profile
Countdown to Zimbabwe has started for real.
[url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4273890.stm[/url]
South Africa says it will for the first time force a white farmer to sell his land under a redistribution plan.
The decision was announced by the Commission on Restitution of Land Rights, set up to return to black people land lost under apartheid.
An official said talks to agree on a price for the farm had failed and the farmer has vowed to challenge the move.
South Africa's government says it wants to hand over about a third of white-owned farm land by 2014.
The commission on Thursday said an expropriation notice would be served on Hannes Visser, the owner of a cattle and crop farm in North West province.
The government offered to buy the 500-hectare (1,250-acre) farm for $275,000 but Mr Visser said it was worth almost twice as much.
'Too slow'
Mr Visser told the South African news agency Sapa he intended to fight the decision in court.
"Should the courts turn out to be my final recourse, I will go that route," he said.
Two-thirds of the country... remains in the hands of less than 60,000 people who unfortunately in this case are white farmers Blessing Mphela Regional land claims commissioner
The government argues that Mr Visser's father bought the land from a black farmer through a forced transaction in 1968.
Regional land claims commissioner Blessing Mphela said the seizure was a last resort.
But he added that South Africa must speed up land reform or face chaos.
Eighty per cent of agricultural land is owned by white South Africans, who make up only 10% of the population - the legacy of apartheid laws.
Since coming to power in 1994, the current government has adopted a "willing buyer, willing seller" approach to land redistribution, paying market prices for land that white owners are prepared to sell, and then distributing it to landless blacks.
But in July Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka said this approach was not working.
"The pace of reform has been negatively influenced by the willing 'buyer, willing seller approach'," she said.
2005-09-23 12:34 | User Profile
South Africa 2005--Aztlan 2025?
2005-09-23 13:30 | User Profile
Not to change the subject, but there are just as many mexicans here that claim their families lost land to the gringos as the blacks are claiming in south africa. our day will come too. guess who will put a dagger in your back first ? not the negro, or the mexican but the white traitors.
2005-09-23 14:39 | User Profile
20 years from now, when South Africa starts having serious food shortages because they're running off white farmers, the media will be blaming drought.
2005-09-23 14:49 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Happy Hacker]20 years from now, when South Africa starts having serious food shortages because they're running off white farmers, the media will be blaming drought.[/QUOTE]
And they will blame the drought on the decades of oppression by the white devils
:yes:
2005-09-23 14:59 | User Profile
Notice how the media has steered clear of any meaningful, continuous coverage of S. Africa since Jesse Jackson et al pressured the US govt. to back a regime change through economic sanctions. It's as if they've been erased from the globe or worse yet, S. Africans all lived happily ever after in an American fairytale. Why bother thinking about them anymore. And why bother to examine our own culpability.
If you want to argue that this Iraq War is bogus, you'd have to concede that the US's interference in S. Africa's economy and stability was an act of supreme hubris and recklessness also and had nothing to do with humanitarian concerns, otherwise, why continue to allow N. Korea, Russia and China to exist without similar interventions.
2005-09-23 16:48 | User Profile
Southern Africa's rapid decline sould serve as a warning to us all.
Land reform will only escalate the flight of capital from these nations. The Zanu-PF, PAC and ANC are Marxists Pan-Africans. Thanks to them and there Jew/liberal supporters, South Africa and Zimbabwe now have the highest HIV/AIDS infection and crime rates in the world.
Didymus Mutasa, head of Mugabe's feared secret police, the Central Intelligence Organization, described remaining white farmers as "filth" and said an operation would be launched to "rid the country of remaining whites."
"All title deeds of the farmers have been canceled, with the British government having sole responsibility to compensate the evicted farmers,"
"There will be a mopping-up exercise with those farms who escaped the net being accounted for and gazetted for acquisition,"
Greg
"I found myself back in the sepulchral city resenting the sight of people hurrying through the streets to filch a little money from each other, to devour their infamous cookery, to gulp their unwholesome beer, to dream their insignificant and silly dreams. They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritating pretence, because I felt so sure they could not possibly know the things I knew." - Heart of Darkness : Joseph Conrad [pg.102]
2005-09-23 18:38 | User Profile
And when S. Africa is vacuum cleaned of whites, the blacks will celebrate and then quickly sink into a steep decline as they have so many times before. Then the US will tell its taxpayers it needs to pump billions into that country to fight poverty, genocide and disease while the dictator-du-jour continues to line his pockets and the US opens its arms to more Third Worlders.
2005-09-23 21:31 | User Profile
The same thing happened in Zimbabwe. Mugabe nationalized all the farms, tossed the whites out and distributed the farms to the "war veterans". What once was the bread basket of the continent now has 12 million starving natives half with AIDS.
Aint progress wonerful.
2005-09-23 21:40 | User Profile
[QUOTE=jeffersonian]The same thing happened in Zimbabwe. Mugabe nationalized all the farms, tossed the whites out and distributed the farms to the "war veterans". What once was the bread basket of the continent now has 12 million starving natives half with AIDS.
Aint progress wonerful.[/QUOTE] And yet somehow I'm sure it is still the whites fault because of the famine and disease.
2005-09-23 21:42 | User Profile
DB,
I've noticed that as well. I guess now that the evil Afrikaners have been removed that the country has blossom into the land of milk and honey. I suspect the real reasons we don't hear anything about this is the "Liberal" ability to not wish to admit they screwed up while at the same time being able to think that they really did the right thing and everything's fine with Black majority rule.
2005-09-24 15:40 | User Profile
[QUOTE]Pretoria - The SA Communist Party has welcomed moves toward the first expropriation of a commercial farm for restitution, while the Democratic Alliance cautioned against the use of this option."
The SACP said on Thursday: "This action underlines that the willing-seller, willing-buyer principle constitutes the major impediment to the government's land reform programme."
The SACP said a key requirement for accelerated land reform was the acquisition of new land.
This could only be realised through expropriation and at reasonable prices set by the government.
"(This case) illustrates the extent to which farmers have overpriced land in our country, either to frustrate accelerated land reform or to become the major beneficiaries of government's land-reform programme at the expense of the landless."
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By setting such a precedence. South Africa's black communist government is clearly setting the stage to expropriate all white land. Once expropriated they will undoubtedly break up the land into small holdings and then sell it on to black collective farmers for a tidy profit.
Greg
"I found myself back in the sepulchral city resenting the sight of people hurrying through the streets to filch a little money from each other, to devour their infamous cookery, to gulp their unwholesome beer, to dream their insignificant and silly dreams. They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritating pretence, because I felt so sure they could not possibly know the things I knew." - Heart of Darkness : Joseph Conrad [pg.102]
2005-10-16 04:26 | User Profile
gee ya think booshe will go try and intervene there?
i know, never mind.