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New South African farmers team up with predecessors
Reuters ^ | April 19, 2013 | Olivia Kumwenda

Posted on 05/04/2013 8:35:52 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

MALELANE, South Africa, April 19 (Reuters) - Reclaiming land seized during white minority rule was a dream come true for black families in the South African farming town of Malelane.

But the community had no farming experience, equipment, money or market access. In search of a plan for its 3,300 hectares (8,150 acres) of sugarcane land, it agreed a joint venture with the whites who had owned the land before.

Land reform is a sensitive issue in South Africa, where some politicians are demanding a forced redistribution of white-owned farms along the lines of neighbouring Zimbabwe and twice as many white farmers are murdered as other South Africans.

The post-apartheid African National Congress (ANC) government's policy is to buy land seized by whites, if they want to sell, and return it to blacks who claim it.

But it has fallen far short of its targets, and many of those who do get land back find it hard to compete in a highly developed sector; some have sold the land back to the previous white owners after struggling to make it productive.

(Excerpt) Read more at vision.org ...


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KEYWORDS: africa; socialism; southafrica; zimbabwe
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To: MinorityRepublican

I don’t understand.

If the whites seized the land from the blacks... then couldn’t the current blacks get the former blacks to teach them how to farm the land?

What’s that? The original black owners weren’t farming the land in any productive way?

Then the current black owners have already returned to the original use of the land under its original black owners.

So what’s the problem?

(Possibly coming soon to a nation near you that hates whitey and promotes unqualified persons to positions of authority based solely on skin color in the names of social justice and white privilege.)


21 posted on 05/05/2013 4:29:26 AM PDT by SuzyQueIN
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To: Absolutely Nobama

Did know Mandela wasa Communist...but not the whole details. Thanks

Mandela also is racist/etho-centric too...I see


22 posted on 05/05/2013 4:41:55 AM PDT by SeminoleCounty (GOP - Greenlighting Obama's Programs)
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To: MinorityRepublican
"One of the problems with restitution is that when the people got the land, no one told them that they cannot drive a Mercedes Benz like Mr Du Plessis used to drive when he owned the farm," Chiyoka said.

Magical thinking. Bad communist.

And so they resort to rent-seeking so they can get their Mercedes Benz. Bad, bad communist.

23 posted on 05/05/2013 4:50:26 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: MinorityRepublican

there was little to no Black Africans when the white tribe found South Africa....

the black tribes that were there are in their own country inside of South Africa.

the blacks that stole the white tribes land were usurpers from the north...


24 posted on 05/05/2013 4:51:08 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight,, he'll just kill you.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Interesting. Probably a pipe dream though.

Here is the reality:

http://ajkraad.wix.com/genocide-museum


25 posted on 05/05/2013 5:51:53 AM PDT by Uncle Lonny
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To: MinorityRepublican

“buy land seized by whites, if they want to sell”

Nice family you have there white farmer, shame if something happened to them. Now what was the price for your farm again?


26 posted on 05/05/2013 6:32:05 AM PDT by dynachrome (Vertrou in God en die Mauser)
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To: SuzyQueIN
(Possibly coming soon to a nation near you that hates whitey and promotes unqualified persons to positions of authority based solely on skin color in the names of social justice and white privilege.)


27 posted on 05/05/2013 6:34:50 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The monsters are due on Maple Street)
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To: MinorityRepublican

****Reclaiming land seized during white minority rule was a dream come true for black families****

Yes, this is quite a dream since there were NO BLACKS in SA when the Dutch settled there. Only a few bushmen and Hottentots.

Blacks did not start their invasion of SA until Shaka began his push south with his impis.


28 posted on 05/05/2013 8:24:53 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Do we now register our pressure cookers?)
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To: SeminoleCounty

Mandela and his Xhosan thugs are in for a very, very rude awakening....

Mandela also has ties to radical Islam.

“Mandela went underground and eventually left the country without permission, training in terrorist camps in Algeria and addressing the Pan-African Freedom Movement conference in Addis Ababa in January 1962.”

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=759

Now, this isn’t to say that the National Party in SA was anything to cheer for. After all, they were socialists.

A lot can be learned by studying SA. We’re heading down the same path.


29 posted on 05/06/2013 6:59:16 PM PDT by Absolutely Nobama (The Doomsday Clock is at 11:59:00......tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock.....)
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To: SuzyQueIN

South Africa was virtually unpopulated when the Dutch arrived. They didn’t take anything from anyone. The farm land in SA is pretty rough, so most of the tribes stayed away, settling places like Mozambique, Botswana, and Swaziland, where farming is much easier. (The discovery of gold and diamonds in Witwatersrand changed all that.) Now, of course, our leftist media would tell us otherwise, but I learned to tune them out years ago.

:)

PS-—You’re a 1000% right. The US is slowly but surely becoming South Africa. I wrote a column about it in FR.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2920398/posts


30 posted on 05/06/2013 7:12:46 PM PDT by Absolutely Nobama (The Doomsday Clock is at 11:59:00......tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock.....)
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