Whites fear land grab as black heirs win claim to family farm

Times Online ^ | September 28, 2005 | Jonathan Clayton in Johannesburg

[saganite]

Zimbabwe redux, coming soon to SA too!

[warsaw44]

The results are as clear as day yet they continue down the same path. Very sad.

[saganite]

They can't help themselves. SA will shortly be a 3rd world country with a starving population but they will be oh, so PC.

[ThanhPhero]

We all knew this was coming.

[Chickensoup]

I would bail now if I were them. Can they get US visas? We need some good hardworking farmers.

[thebaron512]

Reducing imports of food and other goods might be a good thing....

[Centurion2000]

The seizure, which follows the failure of talks lasting more than two years between the authorities and an Afrikaner family, will signal the end of the willing seller/willing buyer policy. Other white farmers fear that it could mark the start of a far more aggressive land redistribution programme.

Zimbabwe marches south.

[jackson29]

strikes me as b/s

the torrens land system and other variants are products of europe to tradk and document land ownership. i doubt the black folk had a comparable system.

to my awareness, concepts of reading / writing / accounting / tax systems are not typical of african history.

its nothing more than grab the whitemans bicyle and ride it as far as they can. soon they will be just like zimbabwe, unable to get the parts to fuel and fix it

[Gay State Conservative]

I would bail now if I were them. Can they get US visas? We need some good hardworking farmers.

I think they'd be more likely to look to,and be more readily accepted in,Australia.

[Gator61]

Not likely that they can get US visas. There are a small but powerful minority in the United States that, while encouraging all sorts of minority emigration, don't want any white people to come here. They seem to think that the we would be better off if white people were a minority here too.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

A cursory read of SA history will dump cold water on the black claims. There were few blacks who lived permanently in SA prior to the Brits and Dutch farms being built.
I do think it would be a good idea for any white farmer to get the best sale price and get out with his family promptly.

[pierrem15]

Ah, c'mon: I'm sure Bob Geldorff will arrange a concert to pay off the mortgages of the ANC's luxury flats in London.

[cyborg]

If it was stolen, it was stolen and should be given back.

[cyborg]

What? American farmers have enough problems. Many South Africans actually find other work esp. small businesses.

[Tangerine Time Machine]

The problem is that SA citizens can't take their money out of the country. So they can sell the land, but the money is trapped in SA.

SA has now completed its first lap around the toilet bowl.

[Malesherbes]

Exactly. There was a time when Mugabe was the darling of the western media. Then came a time when the ANC became the darling - oh, that time is now, isn't it? Whites need to get out of SA while they can.

[winodog]

Americans and Canadians can set a great example by giving back all the land we stole from the native americans.

[cyborg]

Not the same thing but I'm not surprised someone would post as you do.

[kublia khan]

The Indians that I know and I am a part of one (Unlike Ward Churchhill I can prove it) are about as prepared to take back over what the White man took from us as the blacks were to take back over at the end of aparthied. The story of the statistics show that blacks as a whole are worse off now than they were before Mandela carried the day. Per capita income, trade deficits, genocides, tribal segragations and mass relocations were virtually unheard of before the end of aparthied now they are common to many if not all African nations.