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S. Africa may begin seizing farmland
UPI ^ | March 3, 2007

Posted on 03/03/2007 6:49:52 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, March 3 (UPI) -- The South African government has warned white farmers their land could be seized if they try to stall efforts to buy it for redistribution.

All redistribution so far has been under a "willing buyer, willing seller" policy. But Tumi Seboka, regional lands commissioner for North West provinces, said this week that seizure is a possibility, The Telegraph reported.

"In all cases where negotiations are going to be stalled by intransigence and deliberate frustration of the restitution process by the current landowners, we are going to expropriate," she said.

In 1994, when the African National Congress ran in the first multi-racial elections, its leaders promised that land expropriated from blacks during the colonial and apartheid eras would be restored by 2008.

ANC leaders say expropriation would not be the equivalent of recent seizures of white-owned farms in Zimbabwe. The result there was a sharp drop in agricultural productivity.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: africa; landreform
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1 posted on 03/03/2007 6:49:56 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Is Pelosi, Reid, Rangel et puke busy down there too?


2 posted on 03/03/2007 6:51:44 PM PST by oldtimer
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To: Tailgunner Joe

So, in other words: you take what we offer you or we'll take it anyway.


3 posted on 03/03/2007 6:53:05 PM PST by ECM (Government is a make-work program for lawyers.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

uh-oh. . .Here we go again.


4 posted on 03/03/2007 6:53:48 PM PST by cyberdasher (Wikistan.com)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Soon to be another African wasteland.


5 posted on 03/03/2007 6:55:06 PM PST by doc1019 (Fred Thompson 08)
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To: cyberdasher
No, no, look:

"ANC leaders say expropriation would not be the equivalent of recent seizures of white-owned farms in Zimbabwe. The result there was a sharp drop in agricultural productivity."

See? Nothing at all to worry about...

6 posted on 03/03/2007 6:55:13 PM PST by ECM (Government is a make-work program for lawyers.)
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To: ECM

Another land we will have to “bail out” when the inhabitants begin to starve to death.


7 posted on 03/03/2007 6:59:01 PM PST by doc1019 (Fred Thompson 08)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Well, sure, why not?? After all, booting white farmers off their land in Zimbabwe has worked out so well . . . . . .


8 posted on 03/03/2007 7:00:22 PM PST by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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To: ECM

Yes, you're right. The position has now been well qualified.

Nothing to see here, folks. . .

;^)


9 posted on 03/03/2007 7:01:29 PM PST by cyberdasher (Wikistan.com)
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To: ECM

Immenent Domian


10 posted on 03/03/2007 7:06:38 PM PST by pgobrien (82d Abn Inf pings......)
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To: cyberdasher

i know, look at what happened to the "bread basket of africa"


11 posted on 03/03/2007 7:14:03 PM PST by minus_273
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To: doc1019

Before the Afrikaners came to South Africa, there was no one living on the land. The blacks now in South Africa came there looking for jobs from the white men.


12 posted on 03/03/2007 7:23:04 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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more or less, in Africa though Imminent Domain means you get to keep yur life or they might pay you in lead for your land.

For goodness sakes, S. Africans of goodwill and industrious natures should sell now and leave as fast as you can. The writing is on the wall for all to see.


13 posted on 03/03/2007 7:24:22 PM PST by padre35 (I am from the "let's stop eating our own" wing of the Republican Party)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
"willing buyer, willing seller"

"Willing employee, willing employer"

Sounds like George Bush's labor scheme. Definitely a good euphemism for illegality. If you're willing then it must be good. It's the unwilling ones who are bad. Unwilling people should be stopped by governments everywhere.
14 posted on 03/03/2007 7:24:55 PM PST by starbase (Understanding Written Propaganda (click "starbase" to learn 22 manipulating tricks!!))
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Didn’t know that … will research.


15 posted on 03/03/2007 7:27:18 PM PST by doc1019 (Fred Thompson 08)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Exactly what is going to happen in Socialist Amerika after the dims get the White House to go along with the Peoples Socialist Congress.
16 posted on 03/03/2007 7:29:40 PM PST by RetiredArmy (America has lost it's Effin' mind and will never recover.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Willing buyer, willing seller... or else! Sounds a lot like the mafia "deal you can't refuse".


17 posted on 03/03/2007 7:29:46 PM PST by 6SJ7
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South Africa can finish going down the tubes.


18 posted on 03/03/2007 7:30:31 PM PST by TASMANIANRED (No stinking peanut butter.)
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To: TASMANIANRED

Let them twist in the wind. Of course, some how to the left, this will be Bush's fault.


19 posted on 03/03/2007 7:36:11 PM PST by Londo Molari
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To: Tailgunner Joe; Clive
S. Africa may begin seizing farmland

And that's when the starvation begans, just like in Zimbabwe. Not because blacks can't farm, it's because the black leadership thugs take over and they don't know dip sheep about anything. They just want the immediate profits because they're basically gangsters. But they're black gangsters, so they get a free pass in the Western media.

20 posted on 03/03/2007 7:38:51 PM PST by xJones
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