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Our lobbying 'has certainly had an impact' - AfriForum on Trump's land expropriation comments
2018-08-23
[News24] Lobby group AfriForum has claimed its work in the United States led to President Donald Trump's tweet on land expropriation and murders on farms.

FOLLOW LIVE: SA reacts to Donald Trump comments on land expropriation, farm murders

"We welcome it," said Ernst Roets. The group travelled to the US in May to lobby individual members of the US Senate and the House of Representatives.

"I think our lobbying has certainly had an impact because we have spoken with a lot of people who have had contact with President Trump and we have spoken with many think tanks, one of them for example the Cato Institute, which has taken a very strong stance shortly before this statement now by President Trump."

Trump tweeted that he had asked his secretary of state to look into land expropriation and the killing of farmers in South Africa.

"I have asked Secretary of State @SecPompeo to closely study the South Africa land and farm seizures and expropriations and the large scale killing of farmers. South African Government is now seizing land from white farmers," Trump tweeted.

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I have asked Secretary of State @SecPompeo to closely study the South Africa land and farm seizures and expropriations and the large scale killing of farmers. "South African Government is now seizing land from white farmers." @TuckerCarlson @FoxNews

7:28 PM - 22 Aug 2018

Related: Reuters - Trump wants Pompeo to study 'killing of farmers' in South Africa

Related: Al Jazeera - South Africa calls Trump 'misinformed' over land policy
Posted by:Besoeker

#8  Carlson interview with CATO Institute's Marian Tupy.

'South Africa Farm Seizures Begin - Tucker Carlson Tonight August 22, 2018'
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-08-23 17:17  

#7  Almost singlehandedly, Tucker Carlson has made this an issue the President is interested in, because the President of the United States watches a show that matters and is trusted by key elements of his base. Well done Tucker!
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2018-08-23 16:54  

#6  Remember the Tribal Zulu arrived in SA at roughly the same time as White civilisations.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2018-08-23 09:22  

#5  And when Farmin B. Hard's crops fail, they can eat their hate
Posted by: Frank G   2018-08-23 08:57  

#4  As long as there are no labor strikes at the mines. Photo is of the 16 August 2012 Marikana massacre. The big foreign export money which props up the ANC (and UK's Lonmin investors) comes from the mines, not the farms.
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-08-23 08:19  

#3  The left in America would like to replicate this destruction of property rights. Those who think this is something happening to "other people far away" best start paying attention.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2018-08-23 08:10  

#2  Things have been going downhill since the seventies. Whites have been leaving because of this. Many with nothing. African American Blacks here going over there to buy into farmland. They will do farming till the land is overworked then they plan to develop the lands. I spoke to a young man who works in DC and that seems to be the plan. He is actively engaged in this effort. "I seen my opportunities and I took'em".
Posted by: Dale   2018-08-23 07:27  

#1  The Anglo-Boer war (Oct 11, 1899 – May 31, 1902) was decided when the British drove the Boer from their farms and put their women and children in tent camps. It's all in the numbers and the numbers are once again vastly against the farmer and the white man. The major cities of South Africa are teeming with migrants from all over the continent. A 'teachable moment' there somewhere.
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-08-23 04:34  

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