Afrikaner Farmers Migrating to Georgia

VOA ^ | September 15, 2011 | James Brooke

[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.

[School of Rational Thought]

USA should have a population exchange with S. Africa.

[3Fingas]

Absolutely. Ataturk used to be the role model for modern people of the Islamic faith in Turkey. Now, it is Ahmedinah-nutjob or Bin Laden.

[Greysard]

Do they have lots of different ethnic groups in Georgia?

Ethnic groups that didn't like Georgia left Georgia already (and took their land with them.) That's what those wars were about. There should be no trouble now.

[Jeff Chandler]

I try to make friends with all the people in Georgia, learning their culture.

It's a shame that more immigrants around the world don't have that kind of attitude.

[9422WMR]

Yea, those Afrikaners would be must better citizens than that skank from South Afrika, you remember, the whore Teresa Heinz Kerry?

[driftless2]

The weather’s pretty moderate. More like southern Virginia. the mountains in the north close off a lot of the extreme winter weather. They grow palm trees there. Average temp in winter is about 41 degrees. Summer 71 degrees. Lots of rain though.

[UnwashedPeasant]

Interesting neighborhood: Georgia -- about 89% Christian Armenia -- 97% Christian North Ossetia -- majority Christian Azerbaijan -- 99% Muslim Chechnya -- 94% Sunni Muslim Dagestan -- 90.6% Muslim Karachay-Cherkessia -- majority Muslim Kabardino-Balkaria -- majority Muslim Turkey -- 96% Muslim Iran -- 98% Muslim

[Big_Harry]

LOL!

[BfloGuy]

LOL, Place is over run with illegals.

LOL to the 2nd power. Another one who can't be bothered to read the cited article.

[ladyjane]

we get the illiterate, baby making, welfare grubbing, criminal illegals.

But they buy a lot of stuff at Walmart with their welfare money and their EBT cards.

[Thank You Rush]

“”I wouldn’t exactly call it a safe country.””

I wonder what the Muslim population is...that farmer might be trading one set of problems for a different set. Hope not! Anyone with that kind of ambition deserves to do well..

[Thank You Rush]

Sorry for not looking at the makeup of the population before I posted the last thread #51. I went back to look at the map again and saw that. Pretty interesting.

[Thank You Rush]

Interesting makeup of the religions in the area. I wouldn’t like being surrounded by that many muslims so I guess I’ll scratch that off my list. I’m only kidding - at my age, I’m not going anywhere. I’ll stay and fight “them” here in the U.S.