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 countrys 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 farms 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 Africas 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 shouldnt 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 dont 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 states 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 shouldnt be misled by those who sing Kumbaya while the state is planning to expropriate property.
AgriSA has labelled Afriforums 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 governments going to take it?
Do a google search and you’ll see that the media is deliberately suppressing this. Because they are 100% in favor.
All WHITE South Africans should be invited to come here and be given citizenship. White only. Because they are being attacked for their race.
Ask why bammy went to South Africa in July to encourage them to seize property from the Whites.
They still haven’t learned that this tactic does not work.
Look at Zimbabwe. A Pyrrhic victory is what they will experience. Then there will be no one left to blame but themselves. I’m guessing many of the white farmers are moving to Australia and Russia. Closer than the USA, and less controversial. Take the money and RUN!
The genocidal pogrom against the white South Africans will begin sometime soon.
Why would you buy a farm to know the governments going to take it?
Anyone with any sense would have put their farm up for sale as soon as the ANC formed a government.
The writing was on the wall for anyone to see.
The African National Congress is a racist, communist party it was only a matter of time. The new owners will only have the land for a short time before all the land is nationalized.
And before I hand over the keys to the disgusting government essentially seizing my land for a tenth of its value, I’d certainly salt every square inch of it. If I had any spare Roundup, I’d use that up, too.
They should salt the earth and poison the wells on the way out.
The Nazis did exactly that to the Jews. They seized their property.
And next year the starvation begins
Read an interesting book about The Fall of Rome. In England, when the Romans didn't return, it only took about two generations for all cultural memory and necessary skill sets to maintain the civilization to all but disappear. Same thing in the Caribbean. We took a few vacations to Nassau in 1961-1963. Under British rule, it was a near paradise. Went there two years ago on a cruise. It's now a third world *ellhole.
So true.....how it all begins!
How it has all begun time after time....
I thought Australia was going to take them.
Isn’t this the country where Obama just made a speech?
There were a good many Jews that did see the writing on the wall and did sell there property (for far less than it was worth) and did get out before the confiscations began.
But that is often true anywhere when the seller is motivated
The add in the paper Will entertain any reasonable bid
Reasonable is relative.
yes...................
In a very real sense, this is what democracy looks like. Democracies always fail because the majority see they can vote themselves more at the expense of the minority.
It is one of the major reasons the U.S. is a constitutional republic, with strong constitutional restrains on government power.
DJT should offer the white farmers asylum in No. Virginia, Central Pennsylvania, the I-4 corridor in Florida and Michigan (except Detroit).
South Africa wants to be another Zimbabwe.
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Corrupt politicians do. It’s quite lucrative for the political elite.
Here’s a writer in SA claiming that the rank and file members of the ANC do not want this:
I am reliably told that the ANC’s own internal research shows land is not one of the top three, even five, issues that worries the electorate most.
Crime, unemployment/poverty and corruption are the three issues ANC supporters by far most of them are black feel most strongly about.
If whites are driven out of SA (or murdered) it will descend to the level of Zimbabwe.It won't happen overnight but it will happen.
Be prepared for the next round of TV ads asking for money to feed the millions of starving South Africans because of “crop failure” (ie. crops don’t raise themselves).
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