Posted on 08/20/2018 7:17:07 AM PDT by Red Badger
THE South African government has begun the process of seizing land from white farmers.
Local newspaper City Press reports two game farms in the northern province of Limpopo are the first to be targeted for unilateral seizure after negotiations with the owners to purchase the properties stalled.
While the government says it intends to pay, owners Akkerland Boerdery wanted 200 million rand ($18.7 million) for the land — they’re being offered just 20 million rand ($1.87 million).
“Notice is hereby given that a terrain inspection will be held on the farms on April 5, 2018 at 10am in order to conduct an audit of the assets and a handover of the farm’s keys to the state,” a letter sent to the owners earlier this year said.
Akkerland Boerdery obtained an urgent injunction to prevent eviction until a court had ruled on the issue, but the Department of Rural Development and Land Affairs is opposing the application.
“What makes the Akkerland case unique is that they apparently were not given the opportunity to first dispute the claim in court, as the law requires,” AgriSA union spokeswoman Annelize Crosby told the paper.
These farms are on the goverment's #farmlist that @afriforum exposed. And yet government still denies that the list exists... but it is now clear that government is lying to the public. https://t.co/U40G0U1GIv — Kallie Kriel (@kalliekriel) August 19, 2018
It comes as the South African government pushes ahead with plans to amend the country’s constitution to allow for the expropriation of land without compensation.
The seizures are intended to test the ability of the government to take land under existing laws, which the ruling African National Congress has previously stated is allowable if “in the public interest”.
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I heard the justifications for Apartheid, in that blacks and whites have different systems of beliefs, and on the surface there was some merit to it.
The problem was that the whites still exploited the blacks economically, using them for cheap and dangerous labor, and instead of having completely separate societies that could live the way they wanted, the whites made that impossible for the blacks. Blacks were completely dependent on the Whites for their well-being. That simply could not be sustained over the long haul.
In 2000 my husband, son and I were vacationing at a beach in NC. We stayed at a motel and in the evening we met our neighbors (a white couple in their late fifties) sitting outside their room. We got to talking and they stated that they were from Rhodesia. We expressed concern about their safety and they said they were abandoning their farm and relocating. It wasn’t worth their lives to defend themselves against a corrupt government. I know that leaving everything a person has worked for is hard, but it can’t be harder than worrying about being murdered in your bed. I hope these other farmers get out with their lives. These people are animals.
Just get dark tans and learn Spanish...................
Right.
So let's make sure to end a racist government by turning power over to a bunch of violent racist communist murderers. It'll be awesome ...
It was part of the Soviet conspiracy to take over and run the world. Even though the SU is long gone, the communist inspired propaganda lives on and on.
Which is exactly what Environmentalist would love! Eliminating ‘civilization’ would save the earth.
The voters of South Africa have elected their government, and must now deal with the consequences.
Democracy at work there. Or ‘Mobocracy’ -(Mob rule)
ROFL!!!!
Were you alive in the 1980s? Do you have the slightest clue how SA got to be the murderous, racist kakistocracy that it is today? Do you know what a “necklace” is in the context of SA politics?
It’s leftism at its finest. Coming soon to a country near you ... if we let it.
still enough time to put sand in all the crankcases, switch the contents of diesel and gasoline storage tanks and poison the feedstocks ...
Wait, what? You mean the 8% white portion of the country has any say in their future.
They don't.
Democracy is a racial/tribal headcount in a multiracial or multicultural society.
Or no willingness to work your butt off to produce.
Yep...
Glad I visited the place when I did in 2016. Won’t be recognizable in 10 years.
I know that President Reagan initiated a policy of Constructive Engagement to help South Africa.
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