S Africa warns white farmers of expropriation

Reuters ^ | August 13, 2006

[Paleo Conservative]

Sounds like Mbeki wants to do for South Africa what Mugabe has done for Zimbabwe.

[freedumb2003]

Next up: Starvation.

[Zack Nguyen]

How long have the whites owned this land? What were the circumstances of its original seizure?

[Vision]

This stuff is nuts.

[rstrahan]

Hawaii is doing the same thing.

[socialismisinsidious]

"Indeed, we don't have time to be talking and talking for 10 years... because already our people have been waiting."

Guess the white people aren't S.African...being born and raised there isn't enough you have to be black. How....what is the word?...oh yeah, racist.

[Vision]

I'm under the impression they've tried, but can't.

[lesser_satan]

Land claims are an especially emotive part of the post-apartheid reforms, as they often bring white families who have lived on the land for generations up against black people whose historical ties to the land run even deeper.

Sounds like it's been a while for many of them. If it's happened in the last two generations, the land should be given back. Otherwise, tell them to go pound sand.

[lilylangtree]

Zimbabwe all over again. Eventually, the rest of the world will again be burdened by the failed economics and outrageous actions by idiots ruling Zimbabwe and South Africa.

[quadrant]

South Africa is the one state on the continent that has a chance to move into the modern world, but if the government starts down the road of expropriation or forced sale, the country will forfeit this chance.

[Sam Cree]

South Africa is going to try the Zimbabwe model?

Doesn't Gary Player still live there?

[CheneyChick]

It will be very interesting to see how this plays out.

[manic4organic]

Reparations...coming to a country near you.

[alloysteel]

The white colonists stole that land fair and square.

And once they had established a farming operation, the land was FAR more productive than ever it was under native tribal management.

The same with the mining, and the infrastructure for marketing which led to urban development. There was a CONSIDERABLE amount of "value-added" to the land base once the location was occupied by the ancestors of the white tribe in South Africa.

And now in the name of "equality", it shall be taken away and all the "value-added" will be scattered to the winds, as the now productive land is permitted to revert to bush.

Maybe the wild game that once abounded in South Africa will return as well.

Hah. THREE chances that will ever happen.

Fat, slim and zilch.

[Abathar]

Thats easy, they landed, it was sitting there unused and they planted it. The tribes were more nomadic than anything else, and they didn't know their butts from the hole in their heads about planting crops and land ownership way back then.

This is just pure BS, watch the import/export ratios in the next few years drop like a stone, or about 1/3 when this gets done.

[Caipirabob]

Take the money, salt the ground and get out while you can.

[Sentis]

Personally if my land was going to be repatriated and I lived in South Africa I would start a Lion breeding program on my farm. Once I was gone and nobody was feeding them the new owners wouldn't last too long.

[Sam Cree]

Also, this "transformation" sounds like a bureaucratic nightmare.

How do they decide which blacks will be rewarded with property, which whites will give it up? I've got to believe that what's really happening is that the state is going to end up operating and owning the farms. If only because the whole process is impossible without the use of totalitarian methods.

[brazzaville]

Good morning.

Impending famine in South Africa. Somehow it seems familiar.

Michael Frazier