Posted on 04/17/2018 5:05:16 AM PDT by SJackson
Land reform is a key issue in South Africa, due to the long history of dispossession of indigenous populations by white settlers. Progress has been painfully slow over the past 24 years, but the question of land is now suddenly at the top of the political agenda.
A major controversy erupted at the end of February following a motion adopted in parliament, tabled by the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) and modified by the ANC, which started the process of potentially amending the constitution to allow for the expropriation of (white-owned) land without compensation, and its subsequent redistribution (to black people.)
In March, the main opposition party, the Democratic Alliance, sent out phone messages stating: "ANC & EFF working together to take all private land and homes. You can only stop this if you're registered correctly to vote! Check now."
As a result, white South Africans are panicking that they will lose their land and their homes, and some white commercial farmers believe this is the beginning of Zimbabwe-style ‘land grabs.’ Australia’s minister of home affairs even offered to fast-track visas for white farmers.
In contrast, the motion was supported by many other political parties and has been greeted with approval by large numbers of black people. Given the bitter history of large-scale land dispossession, refusing to pay for stolen land is seen by many black South Africans as essential to restoring their dignity.
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refusing to pay for stolen land is seen by many black South Africans as essential to restoring their dignity.
I think it will be sooner than 50 years. Maybe 10 or 15 years.
I would sell whatever I could, plow salt into my land, and leave.
Firestone necktie
Reminds me of Winnie
Yet she is admired.
Serendipitous. :)
As a person living in a rural area, good luck with that, Professor!
If you are a laborer, finding good work is always going to be much more difficult than in the cities or surrounding areas.
Because there’s far fewer people in a rural area, that means there’s far fewer jobs!
Unless you’re independently wealthy, chances are a rural resident makes money farming, mining, logging—working off of the land. If you don’t own the operation of any of these yourself, you MIGHT get work working for a farmer, rancher, miner or logger, but many jobs have been mechanized in farming, so the need for laborers aren’t nearly what it was years ago.
For laborers in or near the big cities, you can almost always find menial jobs, from waiting or busing tables, to sweeping streets, or minor construction, there’s always work. If welfare and illegal aliens didn’t compete with and for these jobs, far more would seek them, and do the work that “Americans don’t want to do”, rather than illegal immigrants. And the real American spirit is to move on up, using such work as the first rung in the ladder on up.
Not so in the rural area, as such work isn’t prolific as in the city. For example, a small town or rural restaurant is rare, because there simply is not enough people around to sell food to. Not so in the city. And the more people around, then many of them will rather hire someone to do some task, rather than do it themselves.
That’s just the way it is. If this professor thinks he can fix this through redistribution than he doesn’t have a functioning logical brain.
Starving but with dignity. Be careful what you wish for.
Newsweek should give up reporting “news “
Ben Cousins from Newsweak should be put against the wall.
Based on the business owners experience, how do you think he/she will view the next job applicant who is black?
Will he ask himself if he is buying a future problem regardless of qualification?
Will he ask himself if he is buying a future problem regardless of qualification?
The white Europeans are leaving, about half have left and with this land grab I am sure this will accelerate. The people left out in the cold are the Coloured currently equal in population with the whites they are mostly mixed race and ethnically different from the Blacks.
Also.they occupy the western third of the country with most of the Europeans. They are also afraid of what the majority Blacks will do to them. Will the Ozzie’s take them in. Remember these were the real first inhabitants of South Africa.
And their lives...I’ve heard their politicians declare it.
Where white and/or Christian people are the victims, the corporate media is pro-genocide. Anyone else, they beat the “humanitarian intervention” drum as hard as they can.
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Imagine Ben Cousins, spoiled social justice warrior at Newsweek, taking over a farm. What would happen to that farm’s productivity? The same thing will happen to every farm in South Africa. They are about to have a self-inflicted famine. It’s the black people in South Africa who should panic, the ones who are already very poor and about to find out how much worse things can be when there is no food. Their per capita income of $5,000 US is likely to drop by a factor of two or more.
BLACK PEOPLE IN THE UNITED STATES SHOULD STOP PANICKING ABOUT LOSING THEIR FREEDOM WITH THE REPEAL OF THE 13TH AMENDMENT
“We certainly will not return them to slavery, says President Sanders. It will be indentured servitude, which is a *totally* different thing.”
“And we should open our arms and welcome them here!”
Once everything they have is taken away from them in their country, how are those Africans going to be able to afford to buy land in the United States?
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