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2011-09-01 Africa Subsaharan

Black farmers selling land back to whites

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Posted by Besoeker 2011-09-01 01:17|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 So now they can confiscate/resell it again?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-09-01 03:14|| 2011-09-01 03:14|| Front Page Top

#2 The state plans to keep buying white-owned farms to redistribute to blacks, but proposes tackling the sticky problem of pricing with a new land value office that will "level the playing field".

"The willing-buyer willing-seller model on its own, it's a problem, because it distorts the market," said Nkwinti, pointing to above market value prices.

But the bying/selling/giving away based-on-race model does not distort the market; is that correct, Mr. Nitwiti?

Posted by Bobby 2011-09-01 07:28|| 2011-09-01 07:28|| Front Page Top

#3 But the bying/selling/giving away based-on-race model does not distort the market; is that correct, Mr. Nitwiti?
Posted by Bobby

Or cause nationwide banking failures.

Posted by Besoeker 2011-09-01 07:41|| 2011-09-01 07:41|| Front Page Top

#4 "The willing-buyer willing-seller model on its own, it's a problem, because it distorts the market," said Nkwinti, pointing to above market value prices.

Methinks Mr. Nitwiti doesn't understand the definition of 'market'...

Posted by Steve White 2011-09-01 09:07|| 2011-09-01 09:07|| Front Page Top

#5 (Sigh) Ordered selling is NOT free Market, got it?

Posted by Redneck Jim 2011-09-01 09:56|| 2011-09-01 09:56|| Front Page Top

#6 Surprise, surprise. Commercial farmers are a LOT better at it than subsistence farmers, communal farmers, or other antiquated ideas like that.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-09-01 10:30|| 2011-09-01 10:30|| Front Page Top

#7 What does Mr. Farmin B Hard have to say about this?

Posted by AlanC 2011-09-01 11:06|| 2011-09-01 11:06|| Front Page Top

#8 Farmin's in Zimbobway not SA. Last I heard he was too busy ripping out the plumbing and wiring from that general's house that got fried last week to offer his expert opinion.

Posted by tu3031 2011-09-01 11:11|| 2011-09-01 11:11|| Front Page Top

#9 Hey tu, Farmin's the expert I figured he be on a 6 or 7 figure UN consulting gig. ;^)

Posted by AlanC 2011-09-01 12:01|| 2011-09-01 12:01|| Front Page Top

#10 Should have never let Rhodesia go.

Posted by newc 2011-09-01 14:17|| http://concisemagazine.com 2011-09-01 14:17|| Front Page Top

#11 As I understand it, Farmin couldn't have sold his plots back to the farmers they were stolen from in the first place - Mugabe wasn't about to give his men title - just the usufruct of the land. He wasn't about to enfeoff yeomen, he wanted armed, grateful dependents.

Did the South African beneficiaries enjoy ownership in fee simple, or was this a variant on Mugabe's non-transferable 99-year lease? If so, they ought to be able to tell the socialist fussbudgets to go pound sand.

Posted by Mitch H. 2011-09-01 14:29|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/ 2011-09-01 14:29|| Front Page Top

#12 Why are white farmers still in Zimbabwae or South Africa? After farms were grabbed and they were forcibly evicted I'd have gotten on the first transport out.

Posted by rjschwarz 2011-09-01 15:09|| 2011-09-01 15:09|| Front Page Top

#13 I'd have gotten on the first transport out.

And go where?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-09-01 15:34|| 2011-09-01 15:34|| Front Page Top

#14 "And go where?" Here, the USA. I have talked with two who left "with only the clothes on their backs". Zimbabwae was the bread basket of Africa. Now they must import. Why they would even consider going back is beyond me. Whenever the government wants they can steal again.

Posted by Dale 2011-09-01 16:00|| 2011-09-01 16:00|| Front Page Top

#15 Here, the USA.

I doubt very much US Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services will be very welcoming toward "white colonialist" refugees.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-09-01 16:29|| 2011-09-01 16:29|| Front Page Top

#16 If you come in illegally and promise to vote for the dems, you are a shoo-in.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2011-09-01 16:35|| 2011-09-01 16:35|| Front Page Top

#17 And demographically, they would be newly minted African-Americans, just like Mrs. Jawn Kerry. No wait...

Posted by Pollyandrew 2011-09-01 17:31|| 2011-09-01 17:31|| Front Page Top

#18 They could have easily gone to Uganda, which had a commercial farmer resettlement plan throughout the 1990s, that gave government leases of 99 years renewable on the land, allowed the rent of armored trucks and cars for the farmers, and gave them special automatic weapons permits. You had to move to specific areas of Uganda and agree to train the workers on the farm in modern farming techniques. That is the reason Uganda is no longer importing massive amounts of subsistence foods any longer.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2011-09-01 18:13|| 2011-09-01 18:13|| Front Page Top

#19 Sure. Like you relish packing your bags with 120 bucks to take with you when you lose your country to asswipes, Shieldwolf. let's see you do it,
Thanks for the sentiments, NewC, appreciated.

Posted by Rhodesiafever 2011-09-01 19:02|| 2011-09-01 19:02|| Front Page Top

#20 They had options though, and that is what I was saying; including taking Mugabe right after the election. You lost your country, too bad; your people simply lacked the heart and will for a gotterdamerung, and it is the rest of the world's fault? I don't think so.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2011-09-01 19:45|| 2011-09-01 19:45|| Front Page Top

#21 And that goes double for the South Africans since they did have deliverable nuclear weapons on hand, and dismantled them rather than use them. And the South Africans had the example of what was going to happen to them right next door as well. That would be the same logic in use if Israel suddenly agreed to the Right of Return for the Paleos and dismantled the Samson Option.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2011-09-01 19:48|| 2011-09-01 19:48|| Front Page Top

#22 Go where? A lot of South Africans went to Canada and Australia after the fall of Apartheid.

Posted by rjschwarz 2011-09-01 20:22|| 2011-09-01 20:22|| Front Page Top

#23 All of this has been simmering for decades. We have Whitehall and our very own feckless pols in D.C. to thank for support the ruthless, "president for ever" Mugabe. Smith was betrayed and the communists took over. Same exact scenario is playing ut in SA with Six Wives Zuma and his crazed Youth Organizer Malima. If Malima ever rises to power it will be totally and irreversible over for whites. Not a very complicated turn of events actully. The end game is the survival of the very rich, and the subjugation of the very poor. Anyone heard the song before?

Posted by Besoeker 2011-09-01 21:09|| 2011-09-01 21:09|| Front Page Top

#24 I have to share this story. One lady I spoke to was selling her crocheted work at a mall. Very attractive fine light blood hair. Dark tan slim and trim. Her distinctive accent caught my ear. Her outfit was a work of crochet a bit breezy but taste-full. So our conversation revolved around her experience being forced out of her homeland. I have remembered her for years for she was such a classy lady.

Posted by Dale 2011-09-01 21:48|| 2011-09-01 21:48|| Front Page Top

#25 My mother left Germany with only her schoolbag and her roller skates in her little overnight case. "Sometimes you don't even lock the door behind you when you leave," she says.

Posted by trailing wife 2011-09-01 23:03|| 2011-09-01 23:03|| Front Page Top

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