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S.Africa to seize land from white farmers

 
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Junior



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PostPosted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 1:41 am    Post subject: S.Africa to seize land from white farmers Reply with quote

Why would they even start this game when it resulted in unmitigated disaster in neighbouring Zimbabwe? mind you a de facto land siezure has been ongoing for the past decade as thousands of white landowners have been killed and murdered.

Is the world ready to start donating food aid to South Africa as well?

S.Africa to seize land from white farmers

Sat Oct 14, 5:00 AM ET

EAST LONDON, South Africa (Reuters) - The South African government has issued new orders to seize land from a small number of white farmers who were not willing to settle apartheid-era land disputes with dispossessed blacks, the nation's agriculture and land affairs minister said.

Minister Lulu Xingwana has said her department would only hold price negotiations for six months with whites who own land taken from blacks during white minority rule. If talks failed, officials would take steps to seize the land.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061014/wl_nm/safrica_land_deadline_dc;_ylt=Ai1vUzQ5BUfZrddO7f33oU9vaA8F;_ylu=X3oDMTA0cDJlYmhvBHNlYwM-
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Octavius Hite



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PostPosted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 1:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's most likely going to end in disaster, but what can the outside world really do to stop it? This is one of the trickest situations in the world. If the white man tells them no and says they will destroy the country the black south africans will think its a conspiracy to keep them down. If the outside world does it will have the same reaction. In the end we will just have to sit back and watch the country destroy itself. Sad, but we can't help those that won't help themselves.
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happeningthang



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PostPosted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 1:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The article makes it pretty clear that there's very little comparison to be made with the Zimbabwean experience, anbd while people may have been killed in outlying farms in South Africa, their deaths don't result in the killers taking over the property.

You're just all hysteria, all the time nowadays, aren't you?
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Junior



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PostPosted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 2:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

happeningthang wrote:
their deaths don't result in the killers taking over the property.


An average of two farmers and their workers are killed every week. Some 2,400 murders of farmers (and) their black workers have taken place since 1996. A third of those murdered are black workers.

We have experience that when there's a claim on a farm then the level of murders goes up. They kill and don't take anything from the farm. From our point of view, it's an attack directed at white farmers and their workers to force them off land.

http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=34952

A forced takeover of white farms threatens to bring economic ruin and hunger to a land of plenty

Now Ms Xingwana has put an official time limit on the process. She says vehemently that it must be redistributed completely by December 2008; black farmers will have the right to buy out the existing white farmers.

If expropriation is completed by 2008 one expert considers that by 2009: �South Africa will no longer to be able to feed itself nor assist Southern Africa.� That would be a humanitarian tragedy. South Africa needs the white farmers who are an essential and efficient part of the national economy � indeed, they contribute to feeding the whole of Southern Africa. The main victims of this policy would be those poor blacks whom it is supposed to benefit.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1052-2352011,00.html
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dulouz



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PostPosted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 2:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

[troll]

Immigrants are bad people and the foreigners should be driven out. Africa for Africans!

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happeningthang



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PostPosted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 2:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

dulouz wrote:
[troll]

Immigrants are bad people and the foreigners should be driven out. Africa for Africans!

[/troll]


So you admit your contributions on this board have been trolling??

You got me Junior, it's still not exactly 'land seizure' more stand over tactics and extortion. Still, I'd imagine the Saffer police and governement are excluding those convicted from taking possession of disputed properties.
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dulouz



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PostPosted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 3:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I do post trolls. I troll about Canaduh and Formerly Great Britian often and with glee. I didn't want to think too hard on this post so I gave a low value response. I'm busy, I have to do laundry tonite.
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