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Killings of white farmers highlight toxic apartheid legacy in South Africa
Reuters ^ | Friday, November 30, 2012

Posted on 12/01/2012 11:41:11 AM PST by MinorityRepublican

ERMELO, South Africa -- In a country cursed by one of the world's highest murder rates, being a white farmer makes a violent death an even higher risk.

Whether attacks have been motivated by race or robbery, a rising death rate from rural homicides is drawing attention to the lack of change on South Africa's farms nearly two decades after the end of apartheid -- and to the tensions burgeoning over enduring racial inequality.

Some of South Africa's predominantly white commercial farmers go as far as to brand the farm killings a genocide.

'Potentially explosive' issue On the other side of the divide, populists are seizing on the discontent among the black majority to demand a forced redistribution of white-owned farms along the lines of neighboring Zimbabwe.

"The issue is potentially explosive," said Lechesa Tsenoli, deputy minister for land reform, arguing that South Africa's future depends on ending inequality on the farms.

The economic change promised by Nelson Mandela's African National Congress (ANC) when white-minority rule ended in 1994 has been even slower in the countryside than in cities and mines, where at least small elites of black South Africans have prospered.

(Excerpt) Read more at worldnews.nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alreuters; civilrights; genocide; southafrica
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1 posted on 12/01/2012 11:41:19 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Africa wins again.


2 posted on 12/01/2012 11:44:25 AM PST by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is necessary to examine principles."...the public interest)
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To: MinorityRepublican; All

Sounds like this article is a Promo for Black Racism...and not just in South Africa

Only a fool, moron, or White Guilt Liberal thinks that Black Racism does not exist


3 posted on 12/01/2012 11:50:54 AM PST by SeminoleCounty (Illegal Aliens do not pay Social Security...Employers do)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Well good thing Obamao is all about racial harmony here in the USA.

~S~


4 posted on 12/01/2012 11:51:10 AM PST by TheConservativeParty ( 1438 days until Nov.8,2016)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Sounds like Rooters blames the victims


5 posted on 12/01/2012 11:52:01 AM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: MinorityRepublican

“Freeeeeee Nelson Mandela.........Freeeeeeee Nelson Mandela.”


6 posted on 12/01/2012 11:52:30 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: MinorityRepublican
Reuters is pandering, here, to Leftist international stereotypes. The article shows a complete misunderstanding of the issues over Apartheid, and a complete misunderstanding over farming in South Africa, at anytime from 1653 on.

It would take more time, than I have right now, to explain even a small part of what is wrong with this article. I will try to post something, if the thread is still active on Monday.

William Flax

7 posted on 12/01/2012 11:53:43 AM PST by Ohioan
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To: GladesGuru

8 posted on 12/01/2012 11:55:16 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Global Warming is a religion, and I don't want to be taxed to pay for a faith that is not mine.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I was surprised to see this in Reuters. Mostly the Western Media and UN ignore the farm killings in South Africa.

Thanks for posting. These killings are an utter and completely outrage.

News of the racist farm killings needs to go viral and stay viral until something is done to stop this slaughter and protect white South Africans.

We are asked to “care” about all kinds of injustice around the world — in Darfur, Nepal, etc. — but not what is happening to the whites in South Africa.


9 posted on 12/01/2012 11:56:51 AM PST by Bon of Babble (Instant Human....Add Coffee)
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To: Ohioan

I am looking forward to reading your comments.

I think it is time for whites and Indians to leave South Africa for good.


10 posted on 12/01/2012 11:58:21 AM PST by Maine Mariner
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To: SeminoleCounty

“White Guilt”

Remember Cathy Buckle?

Stupid white folks.

Black Racism is Evil. Marxist Black Liberation Theology is truly evil.


11 posted on 12/01/2012 12:00:01 PM PST by Texas Fossil
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To: Maine Mariner
I think it is time for whites and Indians to leave South Africa for good.

There are many countries who could use their talents, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and of course, the United States of America!

12 posted on 12/01/2012 12:00:26 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: Bon of Babble

I recall attending a concert in the early 80s in Concord Ca which was to feature Belafonte. I wanted to hear soothing colypso music. Instead, at the beginning, one of the musicians appeared on stage and said the normal concert would not go on, rather, in sympathy to their brothers in South Africa they would have traditional african music. She then began “when the White Man came to my country”...which I interrupted by shouting you don’t look that old and exactly what country are you talking about? Anyway, the show, with my continued rants, continued. My GF wished us to leave but I refused to go as I knew I was not getting a refund so I may as well express my displeasure. The upshot was the only affect was to elevate my BP. I regret now not having rushed the stage.


13 posted on 12/01/2012 12:05:06 PM PST by Mouton (Voting is an opiate of the electorate. Nothing changes no matter who wins..)
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To: GladesGuru
thank you...
14 posted on 12/01/2012 12:10:26 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: MinorityRepublican

“arguing that South Africa’s future depends on ending inequality on the farms.”

I’ll bet there is a translation needed for that sentence.

Anyone with a brain is well aware of the unintended consequences of too early end to the perceived white domination in South Africa.

Regime change has consequences, and to allow world opinion to force actions that will bring nothing but disaster, is not in the best interest of any country.

The long nose of world opinion is still on the march and there is plenty of proof in the middle east.


15 posted on 12/01/2012 12:20:24 PM PST by wita
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Wiating for Rock musicians to band together and record a protest song.....no? Ah, okay. Didn’t think so.


16 posted on 12/01/2012 12:31:04 PM PST by Catholic Canadian
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To: wita
cause it worked out so well for Zimbabwe...
17 posted on 12/01/2012 12:33:58 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Ohioan
As early as 1610 or thereabouts, ships regularly stopped along the South African coast for provisioning (cured meat, vegetables, water, etc.),

At that time the better known Nilotic tribes like the Shone and Zulu were still cutting up various other Africans many hundreds of miles to the North.

The indigenous peoples are the now almost unknown Sen and various others who engaged in hearding cattle with long horns.

The Portuguese had encountered both back in the 1400s when they began sailing around the Horn to the Indian Ocean.

There really wasn't a whole lot of change in the ethnic picture until the Zulu and their enemies brought their concepts to the area, and then it was extermination after extermination.

Most writers like to skip over that part ~ which is a shame. The current level of violence is nothing compared to what this crowd believes to be the correct point of view.

18 posted on 12/01/2012 12:50:29 PM PST by muawiyah
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'Potentially explosive' issue On the other side of the divide, populists are seizing on the discontent among the black majority to demand a forced redistribution of white-owned farms along the lines of neighboring Zimbabwe.

Because murdering them is just not enough!

19 posted on 12/01/2012 12:52:36 PM PST by Altura Ct.
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To: MinorityRepublican

Exactly


20 posted on 12/01/2012 1:08:50 PM PST by Maine Mariner
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