Farmers are soft targets, since they are isolated. The ANC wants to redistribute the land of 40 000 farmers to black people. But since their are about 20 million blacks waiting for handouts. The farms would have to be devided into much smaller pieces.I say let them have the farms.
Anyone remember the Commando system? That offered real protection and support to the farmers and was dismantled in the face of much opposition.
The result was to give easy, risk free access to all the (ANC supported??) killers whose motive was to frighten off the farmers and drive down prices.
(A recent press article pointed out that 90% of the farms so far taken over had collapsed)