I am an Expat South African who moved here in 78 and took citizenship as soon as I was eligible.
What you don’t know is how virulently anti US their media is.
They have been propagandized to be anti US.
That and a 100K here can maybe get you a hobby farm but nothing on a commercial scale.
There is much that I don’t know—and posts like yours can help a little bit.
Has the media always been anti-U.S. or has there been a shift at some point in the last five decades?
I do think that the price of farmland would be decisive, if other factors are remotely equal. The 20 acre figure posted multiple times up thread seems a deal breaker to me.