Posted on 03/03/2010 9:07:47 PM PST by wac3rd
Some 90% of farms redistributed to South Africa's black population from white farmers are not productive, the government has said. Land reform minister Gugile Nkwinti warned the land might be repossessed if the farms continued to fail. Almost 60,000 sq km (23,000 sq miles) have been redistributed under policies aimed at benefiting black people who were left impoverished by apartheid. The land was bought from white farmers who sold up voluntarily. The BBC's Pumza Fihlani in Johannesburg says some black farmers are likely to argue that they have been struggling to get the resources and skills to develop their land. And repossessing the land would provide a whole new problem for the government, our correspondent says, as any move to return the land to its former white owners is bound to be controversial.
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Sensitive issue
The government had set a target of 2014 to redistribute one-third of white-owned land back to the black majority.
But Mr Nkwinti acknowledged that the deadline would not be kept.
He said the focus would now shift to helping the black farmers make their land productive.
"The farms - which were active accruing revenue for the state - were handed over to people, and more than 90% of those are not functional," he said.
"They are not productive, and therefore the state loses the revenue. We cannot afford to go on like that... No country can afford that."
At the end of apartheid in 1994 almost 90% of land was owned by the white community, which made up less than 10% of the population.
Land reform is a sensitive issue in South Africa and has been brought into sharp focus by the decline of agriculture in neighbouring Zimbabwe, where many white commercial farmers have been violently evicted.
Better numbers than FDR’s Detroit.
Looks like the land etc. is reverting back to the jungle.
Then the Black farmers are obviously racist against themselves.
It’s still the fault of racist White people. The government should force the former White farmers to work on the redistributed farms for free. That would only be fair.
The problem was that nobody knew how to run the farms. Rather than swallow their prides and get the former white owners engaged again, or even get help from elsewhere in the world, they just let the farms fail.
I’m surprised by what?
an acquaintance of mine in the mid 90’s had a c. 6,000 acre farm in south africa. at the time, i advised him to sell it, and get the hell out of there. he thought i was crazy. i wonder how he’s doing these days.
Like Van Jones said, “Give them the wealth, give them the dignity!” I know he meant American Indians but the race based redistribution is the same. Racial Socialism is running the WH. If it was White Evangelical Christians pouring over the Mexican border the Racial Socialists (aka Obamaites) would be screaming for machine guns to patrol the border.
Indeed. /s
Something similar happened in Irian Jaya (Indonesian half of New Guinea). The government moved people, at random, to the island in their “transmigration” program and gave them plots of land and seeds, tools, resources, etc. To turn the jungle into productive farmland (and solidify their claim to the land).
When the farms did not produce they spent lots of time and money on programs, etc. to try fix the problems. I’m not sure if they ever determined that taking city people at random with no farming experience played a part of the poor performance? Or that they were given free plots of land? Or that the soil doesn’t grow much except native sweet potatoes?
The land was bought from white farmers who sold up voluntarily——
I couldn’t get past that sentence. It’s such a lie. White farmers are raped, beaten, dismembered...they didn’t ‘sold up voluntarily’, their land....
Ok so it's a 'new' version that I hope gets the point across. Any other remarks I would make, would be/could be misconstrued.
I guess the idea of enlisting white slaves to work the farms would be an interesting concept.
There are articles I’ve read that when Mandela dies, there will be a call for the genocide of all Anglos left there, sort of a Rwanda-type machete slaughering. It’s called “Uhuru”.
http://sarahmaidofalbion.blogspot.com/2010/02/deadly-dream-of-uhuru.html
So, if they repossess the land, who are they going to give it to? Whites?
Sounds like the plot of The Turner Diaries.
I guess they need an affirmative action program and import more whiteys to install a quota system
What did they think was going to happen??
Just like Zimbabwe.
Great point, we all know this, FRiend, the BBC and it neutered PC hate-myself-lying-to-cover-the-awful-truth Liberal newsmedia would never speak facts, it’s doesn’t fit the narrative of the “correct” victim.
You could confiscate all the assets of the wealthy and ambitious and give it to the poor and unambitious.
Inside 2 years the ambitious would have it all back again.
Do you mean crops don’t grow all by themselves? < / sarcasm >
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