Black farmers in S. Africa sell land given them by government back to white farmers

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2032588/Black-farmers-South-Africa-cash-selling-land-given-government--whites-originally-owned-farms.html#ixzz1Wi7xdjPY ^ | 1st September 2011 | Dan Newling

[vette6387]

“Government confiscates land from Whites.
Government redistributes said land to Blacks.
Blacks sell lands back to original White owners!

Reverend Manning is right about his own people. When you look at Africa you realize that its inhabitants have never progressed above basic poverty, because it requires hard work.

[avacado]

"Make your point, dim wit."

I made my point in my first reply to you: read before you type, dimwit...

[EyeGuy]

“If the farmland wasn’t stolen from the farmers the tax money to pay them certainly was stolen from others.”

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Right.

This article claims they were paid “above market value” for the land.

I have read other articles, and seen comments from the farmers, that that was most definitely not the case.

Not to mention, that regardless of price paid, it was a coercive action.

[GOPJ]

It's not going to end well ... blacks are going to be unhappy discovering once again whites are able to make money farming ... while they couldn't figure out the 'trick' to make that happen.

[muir_redwoods]

Sort of a farm buy-back program like our gun buy-backs. Just as bright too.

[douginthearmy]

Government has nothing to “give” unless it first steals it from the citizenry.

True to an extent, but government can 'steal' from non-citizens as well. It seems to me, the black government did the same thing the white government did. They took the land by superior force.

The white settlers acted under government authority. Government claimed the land and then doled it out. Then business went on as usual selling and buying in private markets. When the black government took the land by force, it performed a near identical function. Now the blacks there are legally selling it to whites.

The only question I have is why are the whites buying the land back. Do they have some reasonable expectation that the government won't take it again? And if they do expect to lose the land again, do they expect to make enough profit in the interim to make it worthwhile. I have been told by a friend who lived there that white South Africa was an amazing and beautiful place.

[ccmay]

This reminds me of some lines from Francisco d’Ancona’s “Money Speech.” (the very best part of Atlas Shrugged).