Posted on 08/20/2018 8:35:31 AM PDT by Red Badger
Johannesburg-based newspaper City Press reported owners Akkerland Boerdery wanted 200 million rand (£16.7m) for the land, but that the country’s government were willing to offer them just a tenth of that at 20 million rand (£1.67m).
A letter sent to the owners earlier this year had said: “Notice is hereby given that a terrain inspection will be held on the farms on April 5, 2018 at 10am in order to conduct an audit of the assets and a handover of the farm’s keys to the state.”
Akkerland Boerdery immediately took out an urgent injunction to prevent eviction until a court had ruled on the issue, but the Department of Rural Development and Land Affairs has refused the application.
Annelie Crosby, spokeswoman for the agricultural industry association AgriSA, told City Press: “What makes the Akkerland case unique is that they apparently were not given the opportunity to first dispute the claim in court, as the law requires.”
ANC spokesman ZiZi Kodwa refused to reveal details of the farms being targeted and has attempted to cal investor fears, adding the proposed seizures were “tied to addressing the injustices of the past”.
He told City Press: “Over time I think the markets as well as investors will appreciate that what we are doing is creating policy certainty and creating the conditions for future investment.”
Tensions among South Africa’s white farming community has been escalating since the election of Cyril Ramaphosa as President earlier the year, who committed his African National Congress (ANC) to land expropriation.
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.
“People who are privileged never give away privilege as a matter of a gift.
“And that is why we say, to give you the tools, revisit the constitution so that you have a legal tool to do it.”
A record number of white South African farmers have put their land up for sale amid fears the ruling party is considering confiscating properties bigger than 25,000 acres.
The government was accused of drawing up a list of almost 200 farms it allegedly wants to seize from white farmers, with AfriForum, a civil rights group representing the white Afrikaner minority, adding the document was being circulated by ministers as the ruling powers prepare to implement the policy.
It invited farmers to check if they were on it and urged them to make contact “so we can prepare a joint legal strategy”.
But the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform denied the list was real with spokeswoman Linda Page telling News24: “We don’t know where they got this from. There is no truth in this document.”
On Sunday, Afriforum CEO Ernest Roets confirmed that the two farms - Salaitna and Lukin - were the first two to be targeted.
He said: “So the debate about the authenticity of the list is settled then?
“We hope that the gravity of the state’s plans for expropriation is understood and that people will see through the dishonesty of the Department of Land Reform and Rural Development.
“We hope that the attempts to discredit the legitimacy of the list has now been proven to be malicious for good. We shouldn’t be misled by those who sing Kumbaya while the state is planning to expropriate property.”
AgriSA has labelled Afriforum’s decision to release the list as “irresponsible” and inflammatory” dying “cursory background research” showed several inaccuracies, including that a number of farmers were joint ventures co-owend by black people.
Earlier this month, cattle farmer Jo-an Engelbrecht told ABC that his farm just outside Johannesburg was now “worth zero”.
He said: “We had several auctions in the last two or three weeks cancelled because there was no people interested in buying the land.
“Why would you buy a farm to know the government’s going to take it?”
South Africans will be starving within a year or two.
Nothing about this his in USA papers.
White Lives Matter.
Germany in the Thirties....who said totalitarian?
Yep. Guaranteed.
They already suffering from severe drought.
How long until the Sally Struthers commercials imploring us to send food aid?
So begins every commie takeover. The iron boot is not far behind.
Now, imagine if demoncrats ever get the majorities they had in the first two years of bammy what they would move to do....and it'd be "legal".
You know what to do in November.
The UN and the world just sits on its collective laurels and goes ‘ho hum’.
They can’t get out, and they can’t get armed due to the laws under the new government, economics, etc. Immigration to the States has been unsuccessful for most of them for lack of any program that would allow many them to legally get in and live here. They would need to be granted asylum, and that’s not happening. If the whites were exclusively granted asylum, many nations would scream, “Racism!”
FARMLANDS (2018) Official Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_bDc7FfItk
Nothing about this his in USA papers.
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Nor will they cover the economic and social debacle in Venezuela.
The UN demanded that the racist Apartheid government be replaced with the worst of all possible alternatives.
They got what they wanted.
There’s a different video here—a short but interesting one.
My gawd! Mugabee and the Zimbabwe "experiment" is only a couple decades old. How can these imbeciles think this could possibly "help" anything in their country?
The answer is, they don't. This is destructive and is a move to a dictatorship. South Africa is the next free nation to fall to fascism at the behest of vengeful and jealous suckers.
In the 60s, Johannesburg was a first world city. Its streets looked like London’s. After communism works its magic, it will fall back into the 3rd and 4th world cesspool of the rest of Africa. Jimmah Carter should be so proud!
Communism never succeeds (except in starving its populace). But the looters will never stop trying. As noted above Zimbabwe fka Rhodesia provides an excellent case study on the likely results that will come to South Africa.
It will all look like Soweto, inevitably.
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