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South African farmers fearing for their lives
Telegraph ^ | 12/2/20112 | Telegraph

Posted on 12/02/2012 1:48:44 PM PST by Dallas59

Since the attack on Attie Potgieter and his family, the simple stone farmhouse where they lived has stood empty and crumbling, with nobody wanting to live in the home where one of South Africa's most disturbingly brutal crimes took place.

Mr Potgieter, a farm caretaker, was stabbed and hacked 151 times with a garden fork, a knife and a machete near Lindley in the Free State - the agricultural heart of the country.

His wife, Wilna, and two-year-old daughter, Willemien, were both made to watch him die, before being shot in the head, execution style.

All for pocket money, and possessions of relatively little value – a too-common story in South Africa's rural areas, where mostly white Afrikaner farmers feel they are being targeted in gratuitously violent attacks on their remote farms and smallholdings. They accuse police and government of failing to make these crimes a priority. And as the horrifying murders continue, they are growing increasingly angry.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: black; racism; safarmers; southafrica; white
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To: Lancey Howard

Easy to say and harder to do. Imagine if a race riot broke out here-where would you expect the older white people to flee to in time to save their lives?


41 posted on 12/02/2012 5:49:06 PM PST by Amberdawn
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To: john drake

Sounds like the white farmers need to be massively armed, legal or not. There’s bound to be a way to get guns to them; maybe we could convince our esteemed Justice Department that arming the farmers of South Africa will help “gun control” in the USA.


42 posted on 12/02/2012 6:20:18 PM PST by Nellie Wilkerson
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To: X-spurt
You better believe it ,, Holders people do whatever they want ,,, even against their own with impunity ... Hey you may even get a Nobel Peace Prize (may Muhammads grace be upon you) for burning your own people to death with a diesel filled tire around their shoulders Like Nelson and Winnie Mandella were so fond of ...


43 posted on 12/02/2012 6:36:37 PM PST by Neidermeyer
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To: Amberdawn
Easy to say and harder to do. Imagine if a race riot broke out here-where would you expect the older white people to flee to in time to save their lives?

???

They've only had 18 freaking years to cash out and get out.

44 posted on 12/02/2012 7:18:45 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Lancey Howard

Neither the Dutch nor British will take them. They prefer to import Muslims.


45 posted on 12/02/2012 8:53:08 PM PST by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
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To: Dallas59

There are 5 million whites in South Africa. If the Dutch and British wont take them, we should. Then let South Africa collapse into Zimbabwe on the cape.


46 posted on 12/02/2012 8:58:03 PM PST by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
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To: Lancey Howard

O.K. LH, YOU’VE been warned after 4 years of Obama, so why are you still here?


47 posted on 12/02/2012 9:25:44 PM PST by Amberdawn
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To: Amberdawn

Good question.
But I AM armed to the teeth.


48 posted on 12/02/2012 10:21:40 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Dallas59
South African farmers fearing for their lives

The savages have been on their killing spree since 1994. That's 18 years of practice, and their descent into barbarism continues.

In only 18 years they have managed to undo a couple of hundred years of civilization.

But they are all free. In the same sense as worms and armadillos are free.
After all, that's paramount.

49 posted on 12/02/2012 10:32:13 PM PST by publius911 (Formerly Publius 6961, formerly jennsdad)
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To: Lancey Howard

I’m working on it myself. Best of luck to you and your’s.


50 posted on 12/02/2012 10:40:00 PM PST by Amberdawn
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To: Dallas59

Good comments by Freepers. I would have never seen such a thread before JugEars got back in. JugEars first term was just a foretelling. Prayers and best of luck to us all, this will not turn out nice.


51 posted on 12/03/2012 3:25:11 AM PST by dennisw (With age comes wisdom.)
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To: X-spurt

“I hate I am listed as having a gun now though......”

“I hate that I couldn’t have one before I was 8!!!!!....
I hate I can’t afford to have a hundred now....”

LOL...I’m looking at a pump action shotgun to add now.....


52 posted on 12/03/2012 4:56:52 AM PST by 3722535r
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To: 3722535r

Personally, I am wanting a “Judge”. Talk about bad news from the wrong end, 45 long Colt and 410.


53 posted on 12/03/2012 6:51:53 AM PST by X-spurt (Ted Cruz for President of the Republic of Texas)
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To: Lancey Howard

Time for all the Afrikaners to leave South Africa and settle in English speaking nations. Failing that, there’s plenty of countries in Latin America to settle. Chile, Costa Rica are several good picks.


54 posted on 03/23/2013 2:33:05 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Hundreds of South African doctors have emigrated to rural Western Canada over the last decade and a half.


55 posted on 03/23/2013 2:49:44 PM PDT by headsonpikes (Mass murder and cannibalism are the twin sacraments of socialism - "Who-whom?"-Lenin)
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To: headsonpikes
Hundreds of South African doctors have emigrated to rural Western Canada over the last decade and a half.

Next, American doctors will join them due to ObamaCare.

56 posted on 03/23/2013 2:56:55 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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