SAfrica wants to speed land distribution to black farmers

AP ^ | February 14, 2008

[GeronL]

Zimbabwe was a fine example to follow

[Southack]

...because it’s worked so *well* for Zimbabwe...

rolls eyes

[Chode]

africawinsagain...

[SandRat]

and famine, starvation, hyper inflation, and economic ruin will soon start.

[freeangel]

Oh, go ahead, let all the africans starve. I’m sick of this stuff.

[Cecily]

Speaking of which, can’t South Africa come up with a better reparations plan than this? People never learn.

[Cicero]

South Africa has kept going much longer than I expected. Looks as if the Communist-fed greed and envy are finally going to do them in.

A lot of mines are working part time now, because of rolling power shortages, caused by government mismanagement of the power company (much like California). If they go ahead with this land redistribution, it will finish them off in a few years, I expect.

[Southack]

The madness is that there is a large amount of unused, arable land in South Africa...so taking over productive farms after the massive failure of such in neighboring Zimbabwe just goes to show how ignorance and greed will gleefully beat down logic and law.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

How do you spell starvation in Swahili?

[QBFimi]

One man, one vote, one time.

[gathersnomoss]

All has been going so will since the Brits have left them to their own resources.

[aruanan]

SAfrica wants to speed land distribution to black farmers

In other words, South Africa wants to ignore all economic history and destroy its agricultural base in favor of political ideology and cut itself off at the knees as every other totalist regime has done in the history of the world. Blacks migrated into the region now known as South Africa about the same time that it was being settled by European whites. The blacks were herders living in a tribal society. The whites were farmers and, later, industrialists coming from an advanced society with a well-developed division of labor. Economic growth was favored by efficient farming and industry. Herding cattle in the context of tribal society was already near maximum sustained levels. It was the growth of the mechanized agricultural/industrial society that made it possible for black tribal society to increase in numbers. The mechanized agricultural/industrial society effectively increased the carrying capacity of the region. Now the ideologists are getting ready to kneecap the whole complex. Of course, when it all crashes and burns, it will be blamed on the high tech society imported from Europe.

[crghill]

NOW HEAR THIS....South Africa to be renamed South Zimbabwe. Poverty ruin and despots coming to a village near you. Dang I hate this as I really love SA and have many friends there.

[dennisw]

South Africa pulls in lots of money from the gold and diamonds it produces and sells on the world markets. This allows them more leeway to ruin its farming base than does Zimbabwe

[dynachrome]

“We wanna be just like Zimbabwe” ping.

[rbg81]

Public patience is wearing thin, eh? How thin will it be when they have no food? This is almost right out of “Atlas Shrugged”.

[CGTRWK]

Switch ‘black’ and ‘white’ in this story and there would be a UN army on the ground and show trials going on at The Hague.

[debboo]

Agree! Hey why hasn’t the illustrious Oprah moved to Africa and become president yet? That would work out real well for everyone, especially us.

[popdonnelly]

A better historical example to follow would be Levittown.