[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....

[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.

[cyborg]

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

[finnigan2]

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

- White South African professionals (doctors, engineers, teachers,etc.) have been quietly bailing out of that country for over the past decade and emigrating in number to places like Australia, the U.S. and Canada. The country's mining giant, De Boers, has been investing heavily in diamond finds in Canada and Australia which I interpret as a hedge bet against losing everything in a South African land grab.
Once the South African government destroys the white farmer in that country then Zimbabwe conditions will begin to take place.
I think this process of expropriation/intimidation will escalate once Mandela dies. Like black leaders in other African countries, the politicians under Mandela are looking to take over the country's wealth for themselves, their relatives and "tribes". Black politicians in Africa are, by and large, economic illiterates who have no idea how to operate a 21st. century technology based economy and once they get rid of those who do, chaos will soon follow.