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.
That's going to work out really well.
The out come is the same. Does not matter what title to stick to it. The ending results is the same. Steal from one to give to others. Same thing. Different "title" of the action.
This isn't true.
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