S. Africa will turn into the next Zimbabwe. The people they give the land to will not know how to farm it. The only thing that will grow will be weeds. Everything else needs to be farmed.
I wouldn’t be surprised if “weed” is what most of them plan to grow anyway.
Recently Zimbabwe started asking white farmers to come back.
The irony is Zimbabwe recently asking white farmers to come back. Probably because a neighboring country let in several hundred farmers and ended its need to import food.
In the case of Zimbabwe, there were three central problems to prevent success: (1) massive farm operations were divided into small, and often 5-acre lots. You can’t make any crop return off five acres so people reached the point where it was mostly done as a garden for themselves and a limited amount to sell in some local town. (2) The middle-men who bought the products of the large bulk-farm operations looked at the profit margin and limited trade, and just walked away for the most part. The state didn’t understand their contribution to the whole profit system. Finally (3), banks only loan money to profitable farm operations, which the bulk-farms could demonstrate decades of success. A little guy asking for a small sum of money to run a five-acre farm? The bank would chase the guy out, and laugh over the loan request.
The problem here in South Africa...is that for years, the political parties have talked of the unfair nature of farming and who owns the farms. The party has no choice but to pay off their voters and dismantle the white farm owners. It’ll just mean that in twenty years...SA has to import food from other places, rather than growing it themselves, and spend money on other nations.
Exactly right. Black self-rule has been a disaster for Africa. What can you expect from a low-IQ, tribal population?
The whole continent is going back to the bush — except for whatever assets the Chinese manage to extract.