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2020-08-01 Africa Subsaharan

A South Africa update and it's not pretty

[American Thinker] In 2018, Tucker Carlson highlighted the expropriation of land from White farmers in South Africa. He stated "[a]s land seizures based on skin color shows, South Africa is once again becoming a place where an entire group of people is targeted for discrimination and violence on the basis of their skin color."

Twenty-six years ago, "South Africans engaged in a peaceful revolution. As late as the 1980s commentators predicted that any transition from white minority domination and black majority rule would precipitate a bloody civil war. Instead, in 1994 South Africans replaced president F. W. de Klerk with Nelson Mandela in a free and fair election that astonished the world." Thus, ". . . South Africans of all races voted in the country's first democratic elections, choosing Mandela as their first black president. The inhumane apartheid regime seemed to be miraculously ending peacefully, though much work remained to improve the lives of all South Africans." By the "late 1980s, however, South Africa’s economy was in a deep recession and large segments of the country were becoming ungovernable."

Former president Jacob Zuma (2009-18) "brought the country a reputation for corruption and ineptitude." In fact, in 2018, the World Bank ranked South Africa as the most corrupt country in the world.

In 2018, Hammond and Tupy "in reviewing South Africa's flirtation with the idea of changing its constitution to let the state expropriate farmland without compensation, wrote that South Africa need only look north to Zimbabwe to see the disastrous consequences of this kind of policy." Zimbabwe's former dictator Robert Mugabe gave "the green light to his paramilitary supporters to invade commercial farms, seize some 23 million acres of land and the confiscated farms were resettled with small scale agriculturalists. Many of the new would-be-farmers had no real knowledge of commercial agriculture and many soon returned to subsistence farming. The actual commercial farmers left for other African countries and the result was devastating food shortages in a nation once dubbed the 'bread basket of Africa.'"

Posted by Besoeker 2020-08-01 06:50|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 Carlson was talking about South Africa, or was he ?

Posted by Besoeker 2020-08-01 06:56|| 2020-08-01 06:56|| Front Page Top

#2 I had met a young black entrepreneur last year. He was organizing like minded blacks to purchase these farms to develop. He seemed to think of housing not farming. I believe he felt farming was too much work. The Chinese married into Africans so as to have blood in the game. They also were not restricted on the number of children they could have. I have found the children do not have the bond to China as their parents have.

Posted by Dale 2020-08-01 07:21|| 2020-08-01 07:21|| Front Page Top

#3 Is there anyone you haven't talked with over the years, Dale, and learnt their life story? Someday I will sit with you over tea and add my little life to your collection.

Posted by trailing wife 2020-08-01 07:36|| 2020-08-01 07:36|| Front Page Top

#4 Tw, ha ha. I have met many thousands of all walks of life. Each has a story to tell and I have a knack of bring out that personal experience. Now that I have been on the Internet I have expanded my contacts all over the world. Just yesterday I talked with an Engineer (at my work) who has traveled the world who now trains young Engineers in environmental related Engineering. Less travel now. Zoom conference calls and on line training. I asked about Russia and he said they are very pro American. The closer you get to Finland they look so American and greatly enjoy conversation with Americans. It is Putin's group(corruption) that they dislike so much there. How long was that conversation? No longer than being at a drive thru say Windy's.

Posted by Dale 2020-08-01 10:22|| 2020-08-01 10:22|| Front Page Top

/\ Which tells me you are a listener. 'Keep traveling,' listening, and sharing Dale.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-08-01 10:42|| 2020-08-01 10:42|| Front Page Top

#6 ...Something, something, the US needs the South Africa style Constitution...

Posted by swksvolFF 2020-08-01 18:56|| 2020-08-01 18:56|| Front Page Top

#7 Surprised any of the white farmers are still in South Africa after having their land expropriated

Posted by rjschwarz 2020-08-01 22:38|| 2020-08-01 22:38|| Front Page Top

#8 Good example of both mob rule and give a mouse a cookie and he'll want a glass of milk. They did the right thing (if late) and now the mob is thinking to changing laws to legalize theft. And a lot of Americans have learned that vile lesson.

Posted by rjschwarz 2020-08-01 22:40|| 2020-08-01 22:40|| Front Page Top

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