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Afrikaner Farmers Migrating to Georgia
VOA ^ | September 15, 2011 | James Brooke

Posted on 09/17/2011 11:06:50 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican

South African farmer Piet Kemp inspecting baby corn in Sartichala, Georgia

A South African court on September 12 convicted Julius Malema, president of the African National Congress Youth League, of hate speech for singing "shoot the Boer, kill the Boer" at a rally last year. But some Boers (white South African farmers) say they have had enough of violence and racial tension in South Africa and are planning to move out. VOA's James Brooke visited one Afrikaner who started farming this year in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia.

Piet Kemp's family farmed in southern Africa for four centuries. But now at age 66, this Afrikaner farmer has traded South Africa's Eastern Transvaal for Eastern Georgia. Here, he is reviving wheat and corn production on what was once a Soviet collective farm. Kemp says he has no regrets:

"I have a new life here," said Kemp. "I try to make friends with all the people in Georgia, learning their culture. I have been here since 3rd of March, and I have not heard of one murder in Georgia in this time. I didn't hear about any bank robbery. I didn't hear about any one hijacking."

It was not just high crime rates that prompted Kemp to leave South Africa. "There is no security of land, absolutely no security of land in South Africa," Kemp added.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: afrikaner; afrikaners; boer; farming; georgia; georgianrepublic; safrika; southafrica
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1 posted on 09/17/2011 11:06:54 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

and in no time, he will encounter overt, government-sponsored anti-white racism here as well


2 posted on 09/17/2011 11:07:41 AM PDT by icanhasbailout
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To: icanhasbailout

“and in no time, he will encounter overt, government-sponsored anti-white racism here as well”

Do they have lots of different ethnic groups in Georgia? I thought the Georgians were mostly Caucasian.


3 posted on 09/17/2011 11:13:18 AM PDT by Big_Harry (Ecc10:2 "A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left")
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To: icanhasbailout

Think you confuse the Georgia he is speaking about.
Not Georgia, U.S.A., but Georgia former USSR.


4 posted on 09/17/2011 11:15:59 AM PDT by 9422WMR
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To: Big_Harry

LOL, Place is over run with illegals.


5 posted on 09/17/2011 11:15:59 AM PDT by org.whodat (so Perry's purchase price starts at $5001.00: and $29,000 , was a sell.)
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To: MinorityRepublican
I wonder how well they would adjust to Georgia. The Georgians love their wine, song, and "supras."

Info on "supras" on following site
link

6 posted on 09/17/2011 11:16:05 AM PDT by apocalypto
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To: MinorityRepublican

In before someone thinks this is in Georgia USA instead of the Republic of Georgia...
...oops, too late.


7 posted on 09/17/2011 11:22:10 AM PDT by Repeal The 17th (Proud to be a small monthly donor.)
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To: Big_Harry


In a manner of speaking, yes.
8 posted on 09/17/2011 11:22:44 AM PDT by yup2394871293
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To: MinorityRepublican

“I have a new life here,” said Kemp. “I try to make friends with all the people in Georgia, learning their culture. I have been here since 3rd of March, and I have not heard of one murder in Georgia in this time. I didn’t hear about any bank robbery. I didn’t hear about any one hijacking.”

Sounds like a great deal for anyone who wants to work and especially for the country of Georgia and its people. Reviving those states of the old Socialist Republic is a good idea. Good for him. I hope he is very successful and the example for more to follow. Some countries like his own are just bent on destroying themselves - much as we see happening here today.

Meanwhile some of us here also look for a place to run to - Georgia would not have been a country first on our list. I would expect the weather is pretty doggone extreme. Days without murders and crime of all sorts does sound pretty darned good tho’....


9 posted on 09/17/2011 11:24:41 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: Big_Harry

Notice that while they may be Caucasian, they’re right next to a black sea. There goes the neighborhood!


10 posted on 09/17/2011 11:25:49 AM PDT by yup2394871293
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To: Big_Harry

Mind you, it’s the Russians, Ossetians, and Chechyns they ought to be worried about.


11 posted on 09/17/2011 11:27:59 AM PDT by yup2394871293
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To: MinorityRepublican

Wish him luck, but he may be trading one set of problems for another.

How long till the new neighbors get jealous and start acting against the immigrants?


12 posted on 09/17/2011 11:31:12 AM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: yup2394871293

Flew in from Miami Beach BOAC
Didn’t get to bed last night
Oh, the way the paper bag was on my knee
Man, I had a dreadful flight
I’m back in the USSR
You don’t know how lucky you are, boy
Back in the USSR, yeah

Been away so long I hardly knew the place
Gee, it’s good to be back home
Leave it till tomorrow to unpack my case
Honey disconnect the phone
I’m back in the USSR
You don’t know how lucky you are, boy
Back in the US
Back in the US
Back in the USSR

Well the Ukraine girls really knock me out
They leave the west behind
And Moscow girls make me sing and shout
They Georgia’s always on my my my my my my my my my mind
Oh, come on
Hu Hey Hu, hey, ah, yeah
yeah, yeah, yeah
I’m back in the USSR
You don’t know how lucky you are, boys
Back in the USSR

Well the Ukraine girls really knock me out
They leave the west behind
And Moscow girls make me sing and shout
They Georgia’s always on my my my my my my my my my mind

Oh, show me round your snow peaked
mountain way down south
Take me to you daddy’s farm
Let me hear you balalaika’s ringing out
Come and keep your comrade warm
I’m back in the USSR
Hey, You don’t know how lucky you are, boy
Back in the USSR
Oh, let me tell you honey


13 posted on 09/17/2011 11:31:15 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: yup2394871293

They can always eat Turkey...


14 posted on 09/17/2011 11:33:14 AM PDT by null and void (Day 970 of America's holiday from reality...)
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To: icanhasbailout

Not the US Georgia. lol.

That is the Georgia that the Russians attacked a few years back.


15 posted on 09/17/2011 11:42:10 AM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: Thank You Rush

Look at the map and know that South Ossetia and Abkhazia use to be part of Georgia. Russia has invaded Georgia very recently so I wouldn’t exactly call it a safe country.


16 posted on 09/17/2011 11:45:24 AM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Georgia is where the golden fleece was located. (Greek mythology)


17 posted on 09/17/2011 11:46:14 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Greed + Envy = Liberalism)
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To: null and void

That turkey’s big enough to eat them.


18 posted on 09/17/2011 11:46:14 AM PDT by yup2394871293
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To: yup2394871293

Nahhh, they’re peaceful muslims...


19 posted on 09/17/2011 11:48:29 AM PDT by null and void (Day 970 of America's holiday from reality...)
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To: MinorityRepublican

The vanquished fleeing the victor, an old story.


20 posted on 09/17/2011 11:50:15 AM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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