Posted on 09/02/2011 12:13:21 PM PDT by BUGSWOL
JOHANNESBURG -- South Africa's minister of land reform says black farmers have resold nearly 30 percent of the white farmland bought for them by the government - often back to the previous white owners. Minister Gugile Nkwinti announced the startling indicator of failure at Wednesday's launch of a long-delayed government policy paper to revitalize plans to more equitably distribute agricultural land, redressing historical wrongs. Seventeen years after white minority rule ended, the vast majority of agricultural land remains in the hands of some 40,000 white commercial farmers. Nkwinti said the government had bought 7 percent of the country's commercial farmland since 1994. He said black farmers had resold about 2 percent. Many black farmers have failed for lack of support.
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HaHa! Tosh.O is hilarious because he’s not afraid to say stuff like that.
It is the racism of low expectations.
Not until the farms become productive again,
and then the blacks can complain again about how unfair that is and demand the government seize the farms again.
Guess they got hungry.
Many black farmers have failed for lack of support.
Try... they have no idea how to run a farm, is more like it.
There’s so much work involved!
You even have to get up early every morning!
Who knew?
The blacks didn’t know how to farm and what they tried failed...Ignorance never grew anything or produced anything. Many white landowners were killed for their land.Many moved out of the country. I couldn’t understand why any stayed at all....
Where would they go?
America won’t give them refuge status and since the 1965 Jacob jkavis Immigration Act the immigration of White people into the US is very limited.
Many black farmers have failed for lack of support.
***Try... they have no idea how to run a farm, is more like it.***
Cut, Slash, Burn type farming just does not work on modern high tech farms. Besides, in the CSB farms the women do all the work.
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