Threatened farmer given 2 weeks to leave his land.

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http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_2184930,00.html
Dries Liebenberg, Beeld

Pietermaritzburg - A group of protesters have given a northern KwaZulu-Natal cattle farmer two weeks to vacate his farm before they invade and start building houses.

Jaap de Villiers, 76, of the farm Uitval near Vryheid, is considering laying a charge of intimidation with the police after his workers were threatened during Friday morning's protest, and a fire broke out on the farm later in the day.

"It was the worst intimidation I've ever experienced in my life," De Villiers said on Sunday.

A farm manager in the Melmoth area, Ken Eva, was murdered at the beginning of the year in a land dispute with a neighbouring community.

De Villiers said the Ngome police had to call for reinforcements from other stations to ensure that the protest by about 100 people did not get out of hand.

The police accompanied two representatives of the group to the farmhouse to hand over a memorandum to De Villiers. The shouts of the group could be heard from the main road, he said.

The memorandum, which was written in Zulu and translated for De Villiers by a police officer, accused him of poisoning people living on tribal land next to his farm, and of shooting their goats.

He was given until September 28 to leave the farm, after which "the people will no longer live on the tribal land, but will build houses on the farm", said De Villiers.

Tribal land

His farm is bordered on three sides by tribal land after Inkosi Bheki Zulu bought the farms from two commercial farmers several years ago. Despite the fact that, according to De Villiers, no land claim on his farm has been registered, Zulu maintained years ago that Uitval is indeed part of his tribe's land.

De Villiers said the allegations that he has poisoned people and shot their livestock are devoid of truth. "I never go on to their land and I sell nothing to them. How could I poison them?"

However, he said he does fine people or impound their animals if they steal grazing on his farm. He also has a big problem with animals getting caught in snares put up illegally on his land.

De Villiers said protesters threatened that his employees would be assaulted and their houses burnt down if they went into the veld on Friday to count his cattle.

Although that did not happen, a large veld fire broke out later in the middle of his farm.

"I don't know where these people are coming from," he said. "It's as if I saw a nice car in town, and told the owner to get out, the car is now mine."
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I usually have a strong opinion but this topic makes my blood boil, anything I wanted to write here so far will get me banned. Obviously I side with the farmer, his land, not theirs.

This man is 76 years old, would these **** people respect the elderly or the law? The whole South-Africa is rife with this attitude, even if our government was not corrupt and incompetent, we will still be stuck with these types of people.

The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens - Jimmy Carter.

Will this farmer be protected?
 
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The army should be mobilised to protect the land, as the Police can not do it.
 
Remands me of Zim. Now we just need to gather alot of farmers and share out some Uzi's :D
 
If they succeed in driving him off his land, be he bad farmer or not, it would send terribly wrong signals to others and inspire some dire things.
 
This thread isn't going to go down well with Tubby, Tubby clone ver 1.0 and Tubby clone ver 2.0
 
Well at least he's been warned, not just murdered like it normally happens.
 
Fudzy said:
Well at least he's been warned, not just murdered like it normally happens.
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Ah, that's such a relief - the criminals have implemented an early warning system! How clever!

So when I get home tonight, the criminals will be waiting for me and tell me : You've got two weeks to pack your stuff.
 
kingrob said:
Ah, that's such a relief - the criminals have implemented an early warning system! How clever!

So when I get home tonight, the criminals will be waiting for me and tell me : You've got two weeks to pack your stuff.
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That's better than dying right?
 
Fudzy said:
Well at least he's been warned, not just murdered like it normally happens.
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Oh good, so he gets to live in fear for a few weeks/months/years. Then the gov does nothing and these people pull into his land anyway - that is if he doesn't get arrested for trying to get rid f them or prevent their settlement.
 
Fudzy said:
That's better than dying right?
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Imagine a man at the end of his life. Property worth millions that he's worked on and worked for his entire life. Man like that, you take his land and you *have* taken his life. You've taken his living memory, home, and if he has family, you've stolen his pride in what he can hand down to the next generation. What exactly is left?

He won't be compensated, and most farmers have very little apart from their land and stock. What will he live on? Maybe the kindness of family? So you're turning a profitable member of society, someone who has worked his entire life, into a pariah and burden.
 
lsuacner said:
Maybe they got too lazy to kill. Too lazy to work for land, too lazy to live.
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Majority of them were probably labourers on these farms and who do you suppose that land belonged to before they became farms? What evident here is the sale of the farm was mis-managed, and worst of all mis-communicated to these people.
 
Fudzy said:
Majority of them were probably labourers on these farms and who do you suppose that land belonged to before they became farms? What evident here is the sale of the farm was mis-managed, and worst of all mis-communicated to these people.
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Given the size of the black population before it exponentially started to increase, thanks to modern agricultural practices of white farmers who provided food for the masses. I imagine that the farm belonged to nobody before it was purchased and used for agricultural efforts.

If indeed it did belong to the forefathers of some of these people, have them prove it, however there is no land claim lodged, I am therefore reasonably sure that these criminals are just lazy ****, who want to take something which do not belong to them.

As for being employees, sure why not assume that entitles them to the land. Am I entitled to R8.8 million worth of stock I counted last December? Am I entitled to the R2.1 billion earnings after tax, interest, dividends of the company I worked for earlier this year, am I entitled to that, above and beyond any compensation I received? Well this company belonged to a family member of one of our government's higher ups, I am sure his family would like to share their wealth with me.

Now stop defending these criminals, or should I assume you are not acting like and idiot and that you are actually a fellow criminal? Would you please explain yourself to me if you would want me to believe otherwise?

These lazy criminals, know full well that this farm they want to steal, does not belong to them. You wish to assume they are too dumb to realise this and that they are good natured but ignorant. Crap.
 
Jonny Two Shoes said:
It's time to start digging the trenches again :p
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Some farmers should start a Security Services CC, employ themselves as guards with the authority to shoot, a force of 100 armed guards to protect the farm will be a deterrent, if this farm is handed over, it will spark the fire which will make all of RSA turn in to Zimbabwe.
 
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