Posted on 09/05/2018 8:22:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Gee, who could have possibly anticipated that threatening to steal (that is, expropriate without compensation) land from farmers who have worked it for generations would cause farmers to cut back on planting? Thus, we have Bloomberg telling us, "South Africa's economy unexpectedly shrank for the second consecutive quarter in the three months through June."
The recession, based on a second-quarter decline in GDP of 0.8%, is entirely due to a steep decline in agricultural production: "the agriculture market fell back by 29.2 per cent, taking 0.8 per cent off GDP."
This was entirely predictable. Half a year ago, I warned that with expropriation of white farmers, South Africa is embarking on a course headed toward disaster:
The former Rhodesia turned itself from the breadbasket of Africa, a major exporter of staple grains, into a country on the perpetual verge of mass starvation by expropriating and often murdering white farmers and giving land to cronies of President Mugabe, who were not capable of stewardship. The same thing happened to other elements of the economy as well, all based in getting even for racial grievances of the past.
Venetia Joubert Sarah Oosterveld photographed the results of Zimbabwe's land reform and descent into socialism and wrote in 2009:
Crops are falling and there is a drought coming very soon. 33% of the population of Zimbabwe has AIDS.
There is no indication that this first step toward poverty will change any minds in South Africa. Much as in Venezuela, we must watch in sadness as the fantasy economics of the left destroys wealth in the name of social justice and a nation ends up in starvation and poverty.
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In the 1980s, leftists demanded that power in SA be given to the genocidal communist ANC. We now see the end-game.
No charitable aid for them.
‘Unexpectedly’????
Is this a joke? You allow non-farmers to steal farmers’ lands, then find you’re short of food....
Just how stupid do you have to be!
And they blame the US for their plight.
In about a hundred years if the world keeps going on it’s present coarse, the new face of Africa will be Chinese.
When you say he’s “African”, they’ll mean an Asian colonist whose grandparents came over after the big famine of the 21st century.
China is already planting flags all over Africa.
if I were them i’d get my family out of country, then burn/destroy all the equipment and infrastructure on the farm. Leave a note telling the mob you left it as you found it.
The government of SA is 100% responsible for the forthcoming famine. This country should send them NOTHING!
Remember, bammy went to SA in July to encourage them to seize land from Whites.
Work harder and longer fellas, the UN will expect the U.S. to make up for the shortfall by sending our tax dollars to S.A. You’ll hear pleas about starving children in S.A. without any mention of the cause.
Do you suppose people who are about to have their land stolen or possibly even killed are really concerned with getting the crops planted in time?
The SJW types just can't figure it out, can they?
Didnt see that one coming. Total mystery. WTF Over?
Hardship and suffering only seems to increase the descent into tyranny and oppression, contrary and perverse as it is.
“The Chinaman’s Burden”
Actually that was unfair. Based on the experiences in Zimbabwe, it is more like this:
Where's my country vacation home?
South Africa is one that continent’s Venezuelas! Africa and South America have so much in common! My takeaway is that neither Blacks nor Hispanics as groups, have the ability to be successful at self-governance! My advice to Whites in SA, leave now before you are murdered. There is NO FUTURE for you there, and even if you manage to stay alive, life there will not be worth living with a Black majority in charge. Black Africans have an innate ability to turn gold into $hit! Mud huts to mud huts in a couple of generations!
“China is already planting flags all over Africa.”
True. But I candidly can’t think of a reason that wouldn’t be an improvement. It’s a cesspool.
If you drink every time economic experts are wrong, you’ll get alcohol poisoning pretty fast.
Culture and IQ are tougher nuts to crack. Its not up to the west to save Africa from itself.
Correct. We should have taken that position in the 1980s.
I thikn SeekandFind was being sarcastic :-).
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