To plunder.
Meet the EFF (Economic Freedom Fighters). A popular chant of their's at public rallies, is "Kill the Boer (Kill the Farmer)".
Posted on 08/02/2018 8:55:05 AM PDT by Zhang Fei
I have had a deal with a few of my friends who are farmers, that I will tell them when it is time to panic about the proposed expropriation without compensation. Until then, I advised them to relax.
Last night after President Cyril Ramaphosa's address to the nation in which he announced the ANC's decision to propose an amendment to the Constitution to expropriate without compensation, I got many texts asking: "Is it time yet?"
Let me say upfront that I think the ANC has been handling the land debate very clumsily (to put it politely). It is clear that the narrative has consistently been running away from them and every time in an attempt to regain control, they seem to cause more confusion and anxiety with investors as well as current property owners.
So, is it the end of the road for property rights as many are predicting today?
I don't think so.
It is important to remember that the ANC has always been clear that they could expropriate without compensation, therefore the constitutional amendment is intended to only clarify the current provision.
Of course, it is crucial to first see what these clarifications will be, and it is a real pity that the president did not again emphasise in his address last night what they intend and perhaps more importantly what they DON'T intend to do.
Ramaphosa's answers earlier this year in Parliament as well as ANC policy documents clearly indicate that the governing party does not intend to expropriate people's homes or productive farm land. They are talking about very specific instances of derelict buildings, unproductive farm land, land obtained through illegal means, etc. They are also adamant that it will be done on a case by case basis and not through a general blanket land grab
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Whites in South Africa are getting close to the status of Jews in 1930’s Germany. When the economy finally collapses, they will be made the scapegoats and subject to mass murder.
Yep. Look at Zimbabwe for a precedent. It wouldn't have mattered if Rhodesian farmers had salted the land when they left. The new "owners" would be just as productive in either case.
Well, who knows what the politicians intend to do.
IMHO regarding politicians, anything left unsaid, is left unsaid for a reason.
Dead On
“Don’t worry, Darlings. When they come to cut your head off, they’ll be quite polite”
Namibia is the most stable country on the African continent.
Namibia Rare Earths (NRE.V, NMREF) is a good miner to look at.
I don't think so.
Plain old garden-variety idiot or useful idiot.....you decide.
Is not crap like this something the UN is allegedly supposed to be fighting against???
The ANC considers all white land stolen from the natives, so it is ALL subject to confiscation and redistribution.
Past time.
Either get ready to leave after burning it all to the ground, or get ready to fight for your life.
Honestly, it is probably to late to flee.
It’s a given that the land will be taken. Just pray they don’t kill you while they do it. SA is dead.
Heat the water to boil the lobster slowly and less lobsters will try to escape.
Melanie, it appears, is a complete idiot. If others are actually trusting her they are even dumber.
Melanie’s safe enough - she’s ANC. These expropriations are being excused as acts of social justice but in fact they’re a cash cow for the ruling party, whose members “redistribute” the land by becoming absentee landlords. It’s all about the Party, all about the money, and a little racial violence is just icing on the cake.
To plunder.
Meet the EFF (Economic Freedom Fighters). A popular chant of their's at public rallies, is "Kill the Boer (Kill the Farmer)".
There won’t be panic. Stealing from Whitey, and then killing Whitey is perfectly OK with the left.
[There won’t be panic. Stealing from Whitey, and then killing Whitey is perfectly OK with the left.]
South Africa is what the South would be today if the South had won the Civil War. Union victory came at a terrible price, but it paved the way for millions of white settlers from Europe, and the movement of freed black slaves to the north such that the blacks stopped being a majority in southern states.
South Africans openly show that they are fully supportive of racial oppression, just so long as the “good” group gets to abuse and murder the “bad” group. That’s SOOOO different from the KKK, the Nazis, the Khmer Rouge, the Soviets, the Maoists, and every other evil group in history. Ahem.
Ummm, blacks were only the majority in SC (58%) and MS (55%) in 1860... which was still the case three generations later in 1920 (51 and 52%, respectively), and then those numbers started to fall under 50% in 1930. Seems like it didn't change much at all.
It wasn't until after WWII that only Mississippi was above 40% black (49% in 1940, down to 37% in 1970). Blaming the Civil War for migrations that mostly happened between WWI and WWII seems ludicrous.
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