South Africa follows Zimbabwe down the rabbit hole
This is idiocy! I thought the government of South Africa was too smart to do something as stupid as this. From
BBC News:
S African white farm to be seized
South Africa says it will for the first time force a white farmer to sell his land under a redistribution plan.
The decision was announced by the Commission on Restitution of Land Rights, set up to return to black people land lost under apartheid.
An official said talks to agree on a price for the farm had failed and the farmer has vowed to challenge the move.
South Africa's government says it wants to hand over about a third of white-owned farm land by 2014.
The commission on Thursday said an expropriation notice would be served on Hannes Visser, the owner of a cattle and crop farm in North West province.
The government offered to buy the 500-hectare (1,250-acre) farm for $275,000 but Mr Visser said it was worth almost twice as much.
And the comparison to Zimbabwe is not to be sneezed at.
But Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka says the pace of reform should be speeded up - as in neighbouring Zimbabwe, where most white-owned land has been seized by the state.
"There needs to be a bit of oomph. That's why we may need the skills of Zimbabwe to help us," she said.
Skills of Zimbabwe? My aching ass!!! Zimbabwe went from being the breadbasket of Africa to having to import its own food. All this because the "blacks" who got the farms knew nothing about farming and did not want to do the work to learn. The farms are unproductive.
South Africa is a perfect example of what Zimbabwe was like before Mugabe took over and instituted his "reforms". Now it's happening in S.A.. Cripes!
Posted by DaveH at September 23, 2005 2:59 PM