SA set for farm expropriations

DigitalSoldier said:
For sure zuma made it so clear how he hates our western lifestyle.
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But I bet he sure loves to be driven around in a luxury GERMAN sedan...


pupa said:
Zim in the making? Let Africa return to the, not so long ago, dark ages! Back to the Kraals and ethnic wars!
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And we whites can do that too, we could build nice castles, make balistas, pour hot oil on invaders...
 
BTTB said:
What can the State do? Send in the army?
The press will have a field day and it will make international news if a person is removed off land that he doesn't want to part with.
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I agree, can you imagine the uproar if the army were sent in? However I can foresee that if such a thing were to happen, the farmer would be painted with such a biased 'rascist afrikaans' brush by the governmunt that the international uproar would be somewhat quleched. The gvt here is a lot more subtle about it's modus oprandi than Zim's. They will come out with, 'we offered a market price for his land, development of the people, yadda yadda' and wheel out some poor humble black family to say 'eeish I only want to have the land my great great great grandfather once took a poo on so I can grow my plastic bags'

It's this spin doctoring that people have to look out for. The subject is so emotionally charged that when the 'inevitable' showdown (for there will be one) comes, the farmers must take great care to present themselves as rationally as possible so as not to play into the gvt 'crazy white racist' hand.

Perhaps a free course in PR for all farmers on land that has been earmarked for theft (for that is what it is..)?
 
schitz011 said:
I agree, can you imagine the uproar if the army were sent in? However I can foresee that if such a thing were to happen, the farmer would be painted with such a biased 'rascist afrikaans' brush by the governmunt that the international uproar would be somewhat quleched. The gvt here is a lot more subtle about it's modus oprandi than Zim's. They will come out with, 'we offered a market price for his land, development of the people, yadda yadda' and wheel out some poor humble black family to say 'eeish I only want to have the land my great great great grandfather once took a poo on so I can grow my plastic bags'

It's this spin doctoring that people have to look out for. The subject is so emotionally charged that when the 'inevitable' showdown (for there will be one) comes, the farmers must take great care to present themselves as rationally as possible so as not to play into the gvt 'crazy white racist' hand.

Perhaps a free course in PR for all farmers on land that has been earmarked for theft (for that is what it is..)?
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You are most probably right.
The white guy will be painted in a poor light.
Those guys should just make sure they make tons of paperwork and keep every document and press report about the saga stored in a mutual vault, hoping that one day, lets say 40 to 50 years from now another regime will have new Land Claim Courts.
The wheel does turn and people live and die.

I think it is 30 years before something goes stale in law, but then this is abnormal circumstances?
On the other hand are the land claims valid. Were people moved off fertile productive land. This is beyond my present scope of thought.

In my own personal experience, I can just say that the term "Expropriation" is a dirty word and can be misused by state organs for the so called benefit of the public, pro bono publico. The line is a very thin one, but in the end it is still a forced sale and no government in the world should have that kind of power IMHO, especially if the people were not in the market to sell in the first place.
 
And now Mad Bob wants the white farmers back - because the country is starving to death and bob doesn't have money for his latest Bond Street suit.

Bwaahhaahaaha.

Sick.

iol
 
I really hope these farmers dont go back so all of the zimbabweans that supported mugabe in killing the whites can now also die.

Might be wrong in saying something like that but like my grandparents used to say the wheel turns and now its their turn to die
 
'Threatened' farmer sells land

'Threatened' farmer sells land

25/04/2006 13:46 - (SA)

Pretoria - The first farmer to be threatened with expropriation has agreed to sell his farm, the Commission on the Restitution on Land Rights said on Tuesday.

Hannes Visser's farm near Lichtenburg in the North West became a point of contention when he refused to sell it to the commission, which had a valid claim against the farm.

Land Affairs Minister Thoko Didiza then threatened to expropriate Visser's farm under new legislation.

Further talks between the parties followed and on Monday Visser accepted the commission's offer of R2m for his property.

"We are very pleased with the outcome," said Blessing Mphela, the land claims commissioner for North West and Gauteng.

He said this showed that the commission used expropriation only as the last resort.

"We recognise that it's a painful decision to take. If you lived on land, invested in it, raised your family on it, and derived your income from it, it is not easy," Mphela said.
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Last resort?
More a case of wearing you down?

Otherwise Mphela can be complimented for his statement above highlighted in blue which comes across as sympathetic.
 
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