Land bunfight

McSack

McSack

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I know the article is a couple weeks old ... I just came across it though while doing some research for a land deal I'm involved in trying to finalise on a portion of a farm we own .

We've been trying to get this thing bedded down now for over a year and are still getting the run-around from these inept idiots in gauvanmint. It's almost as if they are willfully creating an environment of frustration and distrust... it's no wonder land issues have become such a volatile topic

Anyways... this just confirmed my suspicions
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The government's land department owes R6-billion on farms it has purchased for land reform purposes since 1994 and in financial pledges to victims of apartheid land dispossessions, the department has told Parliament.
And according to AgriSA president Johannes Möller, of the R28-billion allocated to the department for land reform in the past 12 years, the department has spent just R5-billion on buying farms
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check the rest of the article. It seems gauvamint is paying neither the farmers who have sold land nor the beneficiers who need the funds to continue with farming operations / upgrades / development etc

...AgriSA has been advising farmers not to enter new contracts of sale because the department is in arrears.
...Möller said hundreds of farms purchased by the government across South Africa were "going to pieces" because of a lack of financing.
...called on the department to conduct an urgent financial and land audit, as mismanagement seemed to lie at the root the problem.
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That certainly puts a damper on what we were planning on doing. I'm certainly not keen to get into bed with an orgaisation that seems to have "lost" 20-odd billion rhondt :(
 
So 20 bill is linning the pockets of Dept of Land Reform officials, why is government spending not regulated more?
 
Who are the regulators that monitor this sort of thing?
Suppose they get their cut as well to turn the other way?
 
This is what happened in Zim. After independance the British government game Mugabe's regime billions to buy back land and it just vanished. Today Mugabe denies the money was ever paid.

It's business as usual in Africa.

Read about our own land bank audits. The ANC just shuffles cadres around whenever these things come to light like the Catholic Church and paedophiles.

But anyway, anyone who talks about this is automatically a racist so I should just keep quiet.
 
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i know somebody involved with land reform deals. they say the department is in a total shambles at the moment.
nobody is doing anything because they are all waiting to see which team gets what budget and the politics is like a prison gang.
competent people are literally too scared to take posts for fear of their lives.
i'm not trying to put a dampener on your sale. it's just helpful to know.
 
McSack said:
that's the idea but more of a JV between us and farm workers who have been with us for ages
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Good for you man. This is the idea behind the whole thing- then govt. pork sausage fingers get in there and fsck everything up- okes that try to do the right thing for their workers will never see a finger lifted to help nor a cent contributed by the dept.

Hope it all works out :o
 
McSack said:
that's the idea but more of a JV between us and farm workers who have been with us for ages
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I have posted about that article a few times. This malema affair, orchestrated by the anc/sacp/cosatu alliance, is about taking it all. No JV that would benefit your workers. They do not want peace and quiet.

malema has already been given the "reminder", not to back out of violent land grabs. http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthr...-for-Cuba-to-learn-more-about-nationalisation

CorneN said:
Or a counter revolutionary.
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