[dsmtoday]

Isn't this situation vastly different than Zimbabwe? I mean, in this case, from the article at least, it sounds like the property was wrongly taken in the first place. Secondly, the current farmers are being paid off decently. I don't recall Mugabe doing that...

[fso301]

Isn't this situation vastly different than Zimbabwe? I mean, in this case, from the article at least, it sounds like the property was wrongly taken in the first place. Secondly, the current farmers are being paid off decently. I don't recall Mugabe doing that...

I don't know the circumstances of how property was transfered generations ago. What i do know is that somebody whose great grandfather was a subsistence farmer decades ago has in all probability lost all knowledge of how to manage land under cultivation. Especially large scale cultivation. So, a wholesale transfer from the knowledgeable to the ignorant is no different from what took place in Zimbabwe. There will be joyous festivities as cattle are slaughtered and eaten along with the seed crop. The following season, there will be famine.

[Sundog]

Brief History lesson: Jan van Riebeeck and his 90 men landed in 1652 at the Cape of Good Hope, under instructions by the Dutch East India Company to build a fort and develop a vegetable garden for the benefit of ships on the Eastern trade route.

There is a 354 year history of white farming in South Africa.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Some freepers will perceive racism toward those of European descent even when evidence is sketchy. South Africa can go down the road of Zimbabwe, but it could also return land--if that land was indeed taken from people of African ancestry.