Posted on 06/20/2004 5:05:56 AM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:42:28 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
BENONI, South Africa - Daan Duvenage shook his head as he gazed over the wood-and-tin shacks where 40,000 squatters have established homes on a 140-acre swath of his farm.
"I can't go in there," he said of the warren of homes, streets and shops where he once grew hay for his cattle. "Too dangerous for me. They know who I am."
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That's a hoot!
They don't call Africa the dark continent for nothing.
The SA media and academia have to toe the ANC party line, so don't expect any facts from them. SA is on slippery slope...
I have to tell you, if I were a white farmer in Africa, I'd be outta there. You cannot build a house on a shifting foundation. Even for those whose rights are not being violated now...their time is clearly coming.
Regardless of all the utopian liberal propaganda, reality will always offer that cold hard slap to the face.
40,000 squatters--they've turned a productive farm that fed many into an unproductive shanty town slum that will require others to feed them. Out of Africa....
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Staying in such a place not only ruins their own lives but also condemns their children and grandchildren to a horrible future.
The white farmers need to leave. Maybe they should be seeking asylun in the U.S. They are being stripped of their land and can no longer provide food. Thus the native black people are starving, now that is intelligent.
Nah, just a criminalistic spoils system. I remember reading years ago that some level of bureacracy was being paid more
that the VP of the US.
They justification was "we're in power now".
BMP
JanL disagreed with me. His estimate was one decade.
At the time, I had to admit that he may well be correct as he has a better finger on South Africa's pulse.
Noises are being made there about following Zim's example.
The SADC is about to come unstuck.
The only hopeful signs are in Mozambique, and possibly Zambia.
If his opinions are like the other farmer who said (and I quote) "Black people cannot farm," do you think he's doing right by his employees?
if he DOES think that way and is still employing black people to do farmwork, what does that tell us about HIS farming skills? this is not to put the hurt on the man named in the article, but i'm sure there are plenty of so-called "farmers" who take the racist view that "black people cannot farm" yet whose farms would never be productive without black employees.
Look - that's twice now you've started postings with "if". I don't care about "if"s: by the wording in the article he's doing right by his employees or otherwise One would figure they'd leave for greener pastures.
IMO: if they think they can farm by themselves: why aren't they doing it? Their government seems to WANT them to farm, and I'm sure they'd help them, and some of them ARE farming, so how about all the others? If they're happier working for someone else, that's their choice and if they didn't like his opinions they probably wouldn't stay where they are, doing what they're doing.
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IMO: if they think they can farm by themselves: why aren't they doing it? Their government seems to WANT them to farm, and I'm sure they'd help them, and some of them ARE farming, so how about all the others? If they're happier working for someone else, that's their choice and if they didn't like his opinions they probably wouldn't stay where they are, doing what they're doing.
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That's what I'm saying about the white farmers with the racist attitudes: If they think black people can't farm, then they should prove it by doing all the farmwork themselves, with no black employees. I don't see that happening, but these racist complaints that white farmers are the only good farmers in Zimbabwe persist.
I didn't mean to pick on the guy who you think is doing a good job -- I just wanted to use his situation as an example.
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