Posted on 08/23/2018 7:09:05 PM PDT by Ennis85
President Donald Trump excited white nationalists on Wednesday when he unexpectedly announced that his administration would look into farm seizures and the "large-scale killing" of white farmers in South Africa — a disputed claim promoted by some right-wing and white supremacist groups in the country.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1032454567152246785?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1032454567152246785&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fuk.businessinsider.com%2Ftrump-promotes-white-supremacist-narrative-about-south-africa-2018-8
Trump's tweet was prompted by Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who aired a segment on his prime-time show on Wednesday condemning South African land redistribution and labeling the country's black president "a racist." Carlson, who has been accused of promoting a host of white nationalist talking points, attacked Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for allegedly ignoring an issue Carlson said "should be getting worldwide attention."
"In other words, 'nothing to see here,' says Mike Pompeo's State Department," the host said.
Also on Wednesday, far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones aired his own segment on the South African issue on his show Infowars.
Land redistribution and a right-wing backlash
Issues surrounding land ownership have a long history in South Africa, where black people were prohibited from owning much of the country's land for more than 80 years.
Since the end of the apartheid era and the establishment of South African democracy in 1994, the government has purchased some white-owned land and redistributed it to black citizens in an attempt to address the inequalities between the racial groups. (Today, black South Africans make up 79% of the population, but own just 9% of the country's land.)
Last year, President Cyril Ramaphosa said he supported amending the constitution in order to seize unused land without compensation, so long as the process doesn't "undermine the economy, agricultural production and food security."
Right-wing and white nationalist groups, including AfriForum, a white Afrikaner rights group with 200,000 members, have pushed back against the practice and promoted a narrative of widespread
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“Let’s discredit the President’s position by saying this unpopular group supports it.”
But when Obama and Holder pushed the false narratives against George Zimmerman and Officer Darren Wilson, it was quite ok, eh “Eliza”?
Where were you then? In grade school?
False claims? I think not.
MSM won’t come very the murders in SA because it doesn’t fit their narrative of the positives of black socialist tribal rule in Africa.
So this is why Obama went to South Africa?
To tell their president to pull this stunt, hoping to cause a series of events that would make Trump look racist?
These folks ignore what’s happening in Chicago. If the white women get raped it’s on the white men.
I don’t find a lot of credible “business” reporting from “Business Insider”, just a lot of progressive Democrat talking points on all topics.
“To tell their president to pull this stunt, hoping to cause a series of events that would make Trump look racist?”
How does Trump ‘look racist?’
He doesn’t because Obama’s plan isn’t working.
Anything to link White Nationalists and President Trump...
Trump’s response was on target. I don’t care who agrees with him.
Which means it's true, and #FakeNews is lying about the dead for their #Narrative.
How queer, the author of this piece says that the fears are overstated and it is just unused land, yadda yadda yadda, “far right” “conspiracy” sites, yadda yadda yadda...
South Africa farm seizures BEGIN: Chaos as first expropriation of white-owned farms starts
www.express.co.uk ^ | PUBLISHED: 09:41, Mon, Aug 20, 2018 | UPDATED: 11:23, Mon, Aug 20, 2018 | By Paul Withers
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3680657/posts
...Last week, ANC chairman Gwede Mantashe sparked panic among the farming community when he said: “You shouldn’t own more than 25,000 acres of land. “Therefore if you own more it should be taken without compensation....”
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3680966/posts
South Africa’s Land Bank says land expropriation could trigger default
Reuters ^ | Aug 21 2018
South Africa’s state-owned Land Bank said on Monday a plan to allow the state to seize land without compensation could trigger defaults that could cost the government 41 billion rand ($2.8 billion) if the bank’s rights as a creditor are not protected. Land Bank is a specialist bank providing financial services to the commercial farming sector and other agricultural businesses. President Cyril Ramaphosa announced on Aug. 1 that the ruling African National Congress (ANC) is forging ahead with plans to change the constitution to allow the expropriation of land without compensation, as whites still own most of South Africa’s land more than two decades after the end of apartheid...
For a site that calls itself Business Insider, this sucks as “investment” advice
The lie about conservatives and racism is over.
The dems thought Hillary’s loss was bad? Wait till they realize black voters are running from their party in in the north, in the south and from sea to shining sea.
Either the claim is true or it is not or its kinda true. What white supremacist think doesn't matter.
Black Supremacists object to President Trump addressing threat of genocide by Black Racist RSA government.
Yes, it’s actually happening, BI liberals. I would hardly call Tucker Carlson or Katie Hopkins “White Nationalists.”
Ezra “Schmendrick” Melman. All we need to know. But I will add... his grandparents likely fled Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia. For what? For this putz to kvetch 100% bupkis?
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