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Africa Subsaharan
S Africa to seize more white farms
2006-10-10
South Africa is set to seize two more white-owned farms, to fast-track land reforms in an attempt to rectify apartheid-era imbalances. One of the farms is owned and run by a church, a senior government-land official said on Monday. "The minister of lands has signed the notices of expropriation and they have been sent. The owners have 30 days to respond, following which we will begin expropriation procedures," Tozi Gwanya, the chief land claims commissioner said.

Gwanya said one farm was located near the mining town of Cullinan, where the world's biggest diamonds are found, and the other is in the Northern Cape Province. "The claimants to the Cullinan farm are two local families while the local African Pniel community are staking claim to the Northern Cape farm, which is owned by the Evangelical Lutheran Church of South Africa," he said. Gwanya said negotiations in both cases had been dragging on for two years. He said the state had offered $66,515 in compensation for the 106-hectare Cullinan farm, while the owner, OJ Botha, was demanding more.
Posted by:Fred

#18  Also, South Africa has large deposits of uranium and a well-trained cadre of nuclear scientists. Please refer back to the joint American-British research on nuclear weapons in the late 1940s and 50s, and take a look at the names on the British side : several South Africans there.
Posted by: Shieldwolf   2006-10-10 15:35  

#17  I should have read Shipman first.
Posted by: wxjames   2006-10-10 14:29  

#16  TW, didn't Israel include South Africa in their nuclear testing and development ? In fact, doesn't SA have their own nukes ? Or am I confusing nukes with beer kegs ?
Posted by: wxjames   2006-10-10 14:28  

#15  The nukes were all destroyed before the white minority government left power. They had around 10 gun type bombs.

TW the Israelis may have helped out SA with nuke know how in return for a South Atlantic test site. Maybe.
Posted by: Shipman   2006-10-10 14:08  

#14  And this tribal clusterfuck of a country has nukes ? What were the jooos thinking ?

I don't understand. Please explain, wxjames.
Posted by: trailing wife   2006-10-10 13:38  

#13  They'll soon be whining and crying about starvation and begging for a handout. I say make our feedstocks into ethanol. No exports. Feed ouselves and let these f**kups figure it out themselves. Goodbye.
Posted by: SpecOp35   2006-10-10 11:12  

#12  He said the state had offered $66,515 in compensation for the 106-hectare Cullinan farm, while the owner, OJ Botha, was demanding more.

106 hectares is slightly less than 262 acres, so the South African government is offering the generous sum of $254 per acre No wonder OJ Botha is still negotiating or perhaps the government is projecting what the land will be worth after several years of operation by the "two local families."
Posted by: RWV   2006-10-10 11:09  

#11  I see South Africa is trying to over take the other nations doing this in a race to the bottom and ruin.

Have fun guys.
Posted by: DarthVader   2006-10-10 11:00  

#10  Get your valuables, burn everything else and leave. Let Farmin' B Hard come down from Zim-land and teach the locals how to plow.
Posted by: Laurence of the Rats   2006-10-10 10:48  

#9  And this tribal clusterfuck of a country has nukes ? What were the jooos thinking ?
Posted by: wxjames   2006-10-10 10:26  

#8  Rhodesia, the Sequel. I agree Shieldwolf. Unless they are prepared to take arms, declare independence and fight to the death, they better run for their lives.
Posted by: mcsegeek1   2006-10-10 09:05  

#7  LOL
Posted by: Frank G   2006-10-10 08:45  

#6  OJ Botha
Now there's a scary name.
Posted by: Shipman   2006-10-10 07:24  

#5  One drop of white blood makes you a whitey. Makes as much sense.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2006-10-10 06:38  

#4  Most of the Lutherans in S. Africa are black or mixed race. So, how are they calling this church owned farm a white farm?

Probably the same way someone of mixed race in the US gets lumped in with black.
Posted by: gorb   2006-10-10 04:03  

#3  If the white farmers in South Africa have any sense, they will take whatever they can get for their farms and flee for their lives. The ANC is doing a slow motion Zimbabwe on the white farmers, and if they wait too long, they will suffer the fate of the Rhodesians.
Posted by: Shieldwolf   2006-10-10 01:32  

#2  Oh and the Lutherans supported the ANC when they were terrorists on the lam. Looks like the ANC doesn't return favors just like the Pals.

Posted by: 3dc   2006-10-10 00:53  

#1  Most of the Lutherans in S. Africa are black or mixed race. So, how are they calling this church owned farm a white farm?
Posted by: 3dc   2006-10-10 00:52  

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