Posted on 03/17/2010 3:32:18 PM PDT by george76
Farmers' lobby groups on Tuesday demanded clarity on a proposal that agricultural land become a "national asset", which they fear is a move towards nationalisation.
Although Land Affairs director-general Thozi Gwanya said the government was not considering nationalisation, and that making land a national asset was just a land reform "option...
Land invasion fears...talk of nationalisation of farms could be followed by land invasions, as happened in Zimbabwe...
the Chinese communist model in which farmers pay rent to the state which owns the land.
More than 90% of the 5.9 million hectares of land the state bought for emerging farmers was not productive.
This meant that the agricultural sector's portion of the gross domestic product could drop.
(Excerpt) Read more at news24.com ...
You are so right.
Zimbabwe part II? In their haste to get rid of the remaining colonists, African countries are recreating the conditions that led to Africa being an easy target for colonialsim in the not-so-distant past. This time it looks like the colonists will be from the East and not the West.
“This time it looks like the colonists will be from the East”
And they won’t be PC when it comes to running the country. And they won’t care about international opinion.
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