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SAfrica: Black farmers sell farms back to whites
Associated Press ^
| August 31, 2011
Posted on 08/31/2011 10:42:33 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- South Africa's minister of land reform says black farmers have resold nearly 30 percent of the white farmland bought for them by the government - often back to the previous white owners.
Minister Gugile Nkwinti announced the startling indicator of failure at Wednesday's launch of a long-delayed government policy paper to revitalize plans to more equitably distribute agricultural land, redressing historical wrongs.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2steal; 2stealitagain; farming; redistribution; southafrica
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To: A Navy Vet; Hotlanta Mike; Silentgypsy; repubmom; HANG THE EXPENSE; Nepeta; Bikkuri; Plummz; ...
Check out # 37.
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posted on
08/31/2011 12:35:47 PM PDT
by
LucyT
To: A Navy Vet
Non-Africans have Neanderthal genes.
I can’t help but wonder do these primitive genes give some paradoxical civilizing (in the sense of being able to organize and support cities) advantage?
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posted on
08/31/2011 12:46:00 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Day 950 of America's holiday from reality...)
To: TexasFreeper2009
You think if I walked up to a random person on the street (of any color) and gave them 10 acres and a mule that they could compete with multinational agri-business?I'd starve. I have the ultimate brown thumb, I even managed to kill an air-fern!
43
posted on
08/31/2011 12:49:35 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Day 950 of America's holiday from reality...)
To: dsc
“.....Nothing will ever be right as long as a single leftard draws the breath of life.”
Bears repeating.
44
posted on
08/31/2011 1:01:04 PM PDT
by
rockinqsranch
(Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will, they ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
To: A Navy Vet; LucyT
45
posted on
08/31/2011 1:15:42 PM PDT
by
Brown Deer
(Pray for 0bama. Psalm 109:8)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Why the whites would buy it back makes NO sense to me.
They'll just come steal it back when it starts making money again.
46
posted on
08/31/2011 1:19:01 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(If Hitler had been as lazy as Obama, the 1940's would have been a very nice decade!!)
To: Lazamataz
Pretty much a cycle you see with those of a leftist mentality -
“look, they got stuff! let’s take it!”
take stuff, capital, it goes to hell because of lack of work ethic, knowledge, and dilligence
“hey, that’s not fair! it doesn’t work for us! take it back!”
take it back, make it productive because of work ethic, knowledge, and dilligence
“hey, that’s not fair! you got Stuff! let’s take it!”
47
posted on
08/31/2011 1:21:48 PM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
To: TexasFreeper2009
The days of the family farmer squeaking out an existance off the land are long gone, it doesnt matter what color you are. Not so, my wife's uncle and his son farm about 4,000 acres in the Red River Valley in North Dakota. They are smart, make money and are very good at what they do. They farm mostly Corn and Soybeans.
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posted on
08/31/2011 1:24:15 PM PDT
by
Sawdring
To: ridesthemiles; I am Richard Brandon
AAHHHHThat would be..... NO. That's what I thought!
To: A Navy Vet
Have you read ‘Into the Cannibal’s Pot: Lessons for America from Post-Apartheid South Africa’?
50
posted on
08/31/2011 1:45:23 PM PDT
by
iopscusa
(El Vaquero. (SC Lowcountry Cowboy))
To: TexasFreeper2009
You think if I walked up to a random person on the street (of any color) and gave them 10 acres and a mule that they could compete with multinational agri-business?It all depends on what you grow. There are niche markets which are too small for multinational agribusiness, and yet lucrative for individuals, even with 10 acres and a mule.
How many children in the US left family tobacco farms (10 acres and less) and went off to college, all paid for?
Other markets besides tobacco exist, and locally grown produce remains a good way to live reasonably well off 10 acres.
51
posted on
08/31/2011 2:11:32 PM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: Smokin' Joe
52
posted on
08/31/2011 2:17:05 PM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
To: CodeToad
Exactly. No way would I ride that yoyo again. Lazy and stupid is no way to go through life but some keep trying it.
53
posted on
08/31/2011 2:48:37 PM PDT
by
soycd
To: A Navy Vet
Which African countries are self-sufficient?
54
posted on
08/31/2011 2:52:08 PM PDT
by
Silentgypsy
(If this creature is not stopped it could make its way to Novosibirsk!)
To: CodeToad
Whites were not only run off the land, they were killed and there is not enough food to feed the population. The blacks that took over the land has never farmed...Killed the goose that laid the golden food egg...
To: Verginius Rufus
I remember being fascinated when I stumbled on that movie. I recall the mysterious “coke bottle” being disposed of at the end to return to normalcy.
56
posted on
08/31/2011 3:46:16 PM PDT
by
mcshot
(Hey we're turning upside down compliments of career politicians.)
To: ltc8k6
All they ever wanted was money.Bingo! We have a winner! They whined so the government stole the farms and gave them the property. Oops, farming takes some effort. Oops, property means taxes have to be paid. Oops, the blacks ended up broke and sold the land back to the owners they stole it from. Vicious circle of a government sponsored scam.
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posted on
08/31/2011 4:02:50 PM PDT
by
bgill
(just getting tagline ready for 6 months after you vote in Perry - Tried to warn you he's a RINO.)
To: rdcbn
they are selling the Farms back to the same Rhodesian farmers they stole the farms from the in the first place so the country, and the rest of the region, does not starve. Biches should pay them to take the farms and treat them like gods.
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posted on
08/31/2011 4:41:43 PM PDT
by
ROCKLOBSTER
( Celebrate Republicans Freed the Slaves Month.)
To: LucyT
LucyT, I personally know a family from South Africa that was run off their farm.
Let me know if you want a private run down...
59
posted on
08/31/2011 5:46:46 PM PDT
by
autumnraine
(America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to the chariot wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
To: autumnraine
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posted on
08/31/2011 6:34:05 PM PDT
by
LucyT
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