Posted on 08/23/2018 3:58:46 AM PDT by reaganaut1
JOHANNESBURG—South Africa’s government on Thursday criticized a tweet by President Donald Trump in which he said he asked Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to study efforts to overhaul land ownership and “large scale killing of farmers” in Africa’s most-developed economy.
Mr. Trump’s overnight tweet referenced a report by Fox News host Tucker Carlson attacking the U.S. government’s stance on land reform in South Africa, which he suggested was too lax.
South Africa’s rand fell against the dollar after the tweet, and was 1.3% lower in Thursday morning trade.
The ruling African National Congress has said it plans to change the constitution to explicitly allow the expropriation of land without compensation in an effort to overcome deep inequalities in land ownership the country, which shed white-minority rule in 1994. White South Africans, who make up around 8% of the country’s population, still own 73% of agricultural land, according to estimates from farmers association Agri SA.
“South Africa totally rejects this narrow perception which only seeks to divide our nation and reminds us of our colonial past,” the government said in a message from its official Twitter account Thursday morning. “South Africa will speed up the pace of land reform in a careful and inclusive manner that does not divide our nation.”
President Cyril Ramaphosa and other ANC officials have said any expropriations would be handled with care to avoid eroding property rights, food security and agricultural production.
Under South African law, land owners would also have the right to challenge any government action to take away land without compensation in court.
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Democracy is evil if its just a way for people to vote themselves other people's money and property.
So after all my property is stolen by the benevolent SA government, then I can go to a court from the same government and ask “O pretty please” for compensation?
HA! HA! HA!
(Unless I am killed during such property seizure ...)
“White South Africans, who make up around 8% of the country’s population, still own 73% of agricultural land, according to estimates from farmers association Agri SA.”
Translation: Blacks won’t clear land for agriculture; farming is limited to land developed by whites.
I was hoping that Trump would speak up, unlike 0bama who went over there and praised the thuggish and murderous behavior of the ANC.
They’re emulating the successful, profitable, equitable systems of their brethren elsewhere on the continent like, er, wait a minute, um, give me a sec.....
Wonder how much aid we fork over and who it goes to.
bammy goes there and gives a speech supporting the coming stealing of Whites’ land and their elimination. bammy gets praise and credit.
Trump says something mildly critical, and all hell breaks loose.
The genocide of Whites has started, and it’s now a crime to criticize it.
They’re just reverting to what they were before white people (this is the country with the polygamous president), but because of white people medicine their populations have exploded. Good luck with that...
What BS: “any expropriations would be handled with care to avoid eroding property rights”. Expropriations would not only ruin white farmers but wreck agriculture, as happened in Zimbabwe. And the American Left will first celebrate and then demand that we send food aid. Insanity on display.
Oh, I bet Trump is real scared.
And the American Left will first celebrate and then demand that we send food aid. Insanity on display. (I failed to properly show the quote.)
As the path Rhodesia went so shall South Africa follow
If the “payment” for land was substantially below market value, as an owner, I’d have to become aware of the proper ratio of salt per acre, as a goodbye gift.
Africa continues to wallow in the mire of its own doing. It is going towards catastrophic breakdown and will, at some point, implode because of itself. And millions will suffer and millions will die under the crushing weight of its own tribal greed and violence.
Right, if you live long enough to get your day in court.
They could have asked the white farmers for basic knowledge in starting their own farms, and for tips on making new plots arable.
They would have gladly done so, I would think.
USD/ZAR still tanking on FOREX
Right on.!! That's what south Africa really needs to do... Get rid of all that stinking "Colonialism" and go back to their mud huts.. They don't need no stinking farmers, they can eat "bush meat" and each other... Just like they always did...
If I lived there and owned a farm being stolen from me, I would booby trap that thing to blow up anyone within 2 miles, on my way out the door.
Oh, and if this goes on, the US gov’t should eliminate any foreign aid, if it’s going over there. And not one shipment, not one, of any foodstuffs of any kind. Emergency or non-emergency.
Not one bean, no wheat, no rice...nothing.
Let them harvest the garden they are planting.
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