There is much that I don’t know—and posts like yours can help a little bit.
Has the media always been anti-U.S. or has there been a shift at some point in the last five decades?
I do think that the price of farmland would be decisive, if other factors are remotely equal. The 20 acre figure posted multiple times up thread seems a deal breaker to me.
The whole world was a huge propaganda program against SA 5 decades ago but the Boer still admired the USA. When Mandela came to power affirmative action on steroids was implemented.
Most media hires since then have been black communist ANC members. They are jealous of the US. They hate the white man and his accomplishments.