The New South Africa - land_reform

Great RSA Land Scandal

noreply@blogspirit.com () — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:06:40 +0200

Incisive book on how the ruling Marxist, racist ANC regime is engineering famine in South Africa. Dr Du Toit describes how the ANC commits systematic genocide against White farmers to steal their land. Absolute power flows not only from the barrel of a gun, but also from the hand which holds the food. Stalin starved 11 Million Ukrainians in 1933, Pol Pot 2 Million in 1975. Mugabe in 2000- is SA next? Read & decide for yourself.

http://greatsalandscandal.blogspot.com/

'Farming is SA's most dangerous profession'

noreply@blogspirit.com () — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 15:35:00 +0200

Rural crime has turned farming into one of the most dangerous professions in the country, the Freedom Front Plus said on Thursday.

"The likelihood of a victim dying during a farm attack is three times higher than a victim dying during a cash-in-transit heist," said FF Plus spokesperson Pieter Groenewald.

Groenewald said the rate of police killings - 153 out of every 100 000 - was much lower than in the case of farmers.

"It can be accepted that since 1991 up to now, approximately 1 600 farmers in nearly 10 000 farm attacks have already been killed."

This based on an average murder figure of 112 a year between 2000 and 2004, Groenewald said.
It was "extremely disconcerting" that the government was continuing the closure of commandos.

"The government knows that sector policing in rural areas does not work and a vacuum exists in the security of these areas," Groenewald said.

"It is clear that the government is not disturbed by the farm murders and farm attacks." - Sapa

Land reform: SA should 'learn from Zimbabwe'

noreply@blogspirit.com () — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 15:39:45 +0100

South Africa could learn about speedy land reform from its neighbour Zimbabwe, Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka said on Wednesday.

"We've got lessons to learn from Zimbabwe -- how to do it fast," she told an African distance-education conference in Pretoria.

There is a general complaint in South Africa that land reform is too slow, too structured and "that we need a bit of an oomph".

"So, we might want some skills exchange between us and Zimbabwe, to get some of their colleagues to help us here with that," the deputy president told delegates with a smile -- to muted laughter.

Hundreds of commercial farmers were evicted from their land since 2000, often forcibly, in Zimbabwe's much-criticised land-reform programme.

Earlier this month, a conference on South Africa's land-reform programme -- designed to correct apartheid-era wrongs -- concluded that the willing-buyer-willing-seller principle is no longer appropriate.

It resolved that a new mechanism be found.

At the time, Mlambo-Ngcuka said the principle is slowing down land reform.

The Democratic Alliance questioned the wisdom of Mlambo-Ngcuka's pronouncement at the education conference.

"Surely Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka is joking," it said in a statement.

"The lesson for our country lies in not following the same route which Zimbabwe has taken. Zimbabwe offers a textbook example of ways in which land reform should not be carried out."

The blame for the slow pace of South Africa's land-reform programme rests with the government, the party said.

"The legal framework is in place and there are enough landowners and farmers who want to be part of this process. The government is trying to turn landowners into villains instead of recognising that they are victims of government slackness and failure to vote the funds."

Mlambo-Ngcuka should act in a more "balanced and responsible manner" when making public statements, the DA said.

The South African government wants all land-restitution claims settled within the next three years, and 30% of agricultural land in the hands of the previously disadvantaged by 2014.

By December last year, 3% of commercial farm land had been redistributed. -- Sapa

Farm Attacks

noreply@blogspirit.com () — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 17:48:54 +0100

This map of the Johannesburg region shows the number of armed attacks against residents of agricultural holdings around greater-Johannesburg thus far this year. In the "Cradle-of-Mankind" valley around Kromdraai alone, 89 farm attacks and 140+ breakins have occurred this year, but which were never reported to the news media. An average of 50,000 such violent deaths a year are officially recorded in South Africa - but its government severely censors crime statistics -- and the actual death rate could be twice the annual 50,000 recorded average. SA forensic expert Professor Mohammed Dade found in 2003 that half of all the officially-recorded "non-violent" deaths he examined, turned out to be murder victims. The most-at-risk-of-murder group in the entire world are South African land owners of all races, who are being slaughtered, often after hours of cruel torture, at the rate of 313 per 100,000 - four times the national average for other minorities and 100% more than the death rate in the warzone of Iraq. South Africa's citizens are living in a secret, undeclared war - especially its privately-owned agricultural sector is being terrorised out of existence

SERIOUS TROUBLE AHEAD FOR SOUTH AFRICAN AGRICULTURE

noreply@blogspirit.com () — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 00:00:16 +0100

With this posting I have created a new category dedicated to posting news nd opinions of the latest Land Reform movement within South Africa. The ANC is showing it's true colors and the world should not let what happened in Zimbabwe happen in South Africa. It is bad enough that 1000's of farmers along with their wives and children have been slaughtered.

SERIOUS TROUBLE AHEAD FOR SOUTH AFRICAN AGRICULTURE

The release of Department of Land and Agriculture (DLA) Minister Thoko Didiza’s Black Economic Empowerment charter as it applies to the agricultural industry is a blueprint for the handover, not only of more productive farms, but of every facet of the food industry.

The "Scope of Application" of this new charter "applies to the entire value chain in the South African agricultural sector (from farm field to consumer plate), including all economic activities relating to the provision of agricultural inputs, services, farming, processing, distribution, logistics and allied activities that add value to agricultural products".

The socialistic tendencies of the SA government’s new policies are beginning to read like pure Karl Marx. After the take-over of Eastern Europe by the Communist Party, citizens were given the assurances that nothing would change, that jobs would be secure and that life would go on as before, albeit with a few minor changes. The South African economy is reported to be "booming" although there is much poverty and unemployment among all groups. But capitalism is supposed to be the engine that drives the country. No longer it seems.

While feeding heartily at the capitalist trough, those in power are now beginning to decry citizens who work hard and make money as "elitists" and "exploiters". Last month State President Thabo Mbeki lambasted the "new conservatism" supposedly sweeping the world, and declared the individual should never be preferred to the state. He attacked free market economics, and got stuck into the purported increase in foreign property buying (but said nothing about his friend from Equatorial Guinea, the son of dictator Nguema, who has just purchased a R23 million property in Cape Town).

He also took a swipe at health care profits, challenging chemists, dispensing doctors and pharmaceutical retailers to stop resisting his socialistic health care policies. He lambasted them for their "desire to protect their profit margins". In Parliament, he came to the defence of Land and Agriculture Minister Thoko Didiza, even after her monumental failures had been outlined so graphically in the book The Great South African Land Scandal.

One thing is certain – President Mbeki's government is acting true to African type. So many Westerners believed that when independence swept through Africa on the wings of the "Africa for the Africans" clarion call, the new leaders would make life better for their own people. Not only did this not happen, the exact opposite occurred. Things became worse, and tyrants emerged who could not have given a jot about the increasing poverty and misery of their own people.

President Mbeki and the SA government is on the same path. Socialism and communism are empirically failed policies. But failure is not the issue. Many years ago, a nephew of Chief Matanzima, then head of the newly-independent Transkei was heard telling an American visitor that he didn’t care if the roads turned to dust, as long as the whites got out of Transkei!

When the ANC came to power, fears abounded about the possible nationalisation of the economy. This did not happen. But after ten years, the vast bulk of ANC supporters are still outside SA’s first world economy, despite the years of drip feeding and vast programmes involving assistance, funding and training.

The New Charter

Mbeki knows the Department of Land Affair's land handover policy is a failure. Every day there are more reports of the collapse of once-productive farms. He knows Minister Didiza's policies are doomed to failure, yet he backs her to the hilt.

Now she has produced a document which rings the death knell for South African agriculture as we know it. Black economic empowerment is now being sold as a method of bringing blacks into an economy which has been open to them for ten years. As they cannot make it on their own, they must now be forced into positions which should be the reward for hard work, sacrifice, skill and risk. Is there any better recipe for destroying an economy?

The Charter says by the year 2014, 50% of agricultural land including that held by the state, must be in the hands of black farmers.

By the year 2008, there must be 35% black ownership of "new and existing agricultural enterprises", and farm workers must own 10% of farm level enterprises by the same time. Which businessman will invest in a "new enterprise" if he has to give 35% of it away to what Business Day’s David Gleason calls "this gluttonous elite".

"Greed hung in the air" was the way a meeting of avaricious businessmen in poverty-stricken Angola was described in a recent Helen Suzman Foundation magazine article. And greed seems to be the motivation behind this latest missive to steal from the productive and give to the non-productive. Forcing people into businesses which are not theirs, and legislating hard working people into handing over the results of years of productive work is a knife in the heart of the South African economy.

Ms. Didiza’s draft charter is a blatantly racist assault on the commercial farming sector. Vengeance permeates the paragraphs. Retribution is the name of the game, whatever the ultimate harm to South Africa. It is the Mugabe syndrome – kick the whites whatever the costs.

The Charter’s preamble is long – it is redressing past injustices, it is non-racial (yet it is based on race – "blacks" are carefully defined as black South Africans, coloureds and Indians!). It is a charter of "transformation", it must redress the "skewed participation and inequality in the agricultural sector" and it must correct the past "racially-biased policies".

Blacks are uniformly defined as "previously or historically disadvantaged" The South African "apartheid land regime " must be transformed. "High potential and unique agricultural land is a critical but limited and scarce resource" says the Charter. So stakeholders must work together to ensure that the disadvantaged will have "ownership, leasehold or use" of this specific land.

The commercial farming industry and others in the food chain are informed they must undertake to "contribute to the realisation of the country’s objective of ensuring that 30% of agricultural land is owned by black South Africans by the year 2014". As well, farmers "must contribute to an additional target to make available 20% of their own existing high potential and unique agricultural land for lease to black South Africans by the year 2014. The farmers must also make available 20% of their own agricultural land to farm workers for their own animal and plant production activities.

Thus fifty percent of "high potential" quality commercial land will be gone by the year 2014, just ten years away.

The agricultural sector is further informed it must take up mentoring to transfer skills to the previously disadvantaged, and this mentoring will be monitored by the government.

Further, there must be a 30% representation of black people at executive management level of each enterprise in the agriculture and related sectors by the year 2006, a 50% representation of black people at senior management level by 2008, a 60% representation at middle management level, and a 70% representation at junior management level by 2008.

On top of this there must be a 10% representation of black women at executive management level of each enterprise by the year 2006. This figure goes up to 45% black women at junior management level by 2008.

By the year 2014, there must a "representative management outlook" in all agricultural enterprises by the year 2014.

The clauses on black procurement companies quite blatantly state that preference will be given to black empowerment companies, and "established industry" must ensure that "meaningful access to and the use of infrastructure, assets and support services capacity that accumulated to them as the result of past apartheid policies" be afforded to black enterprises by 2007.

Big brother will be watching. Monitoring will be strict and invasive. Everyone will have to report on their commitments and progress and the first such annual report will be sent to the government by the financial year 2005.

So who wants to be a farmer now? Your hard work, your productivity, your risk taking, your father’s heritage – all must be handed over to someone who did nothing to earn the largesse. South Africa is the only country in the world where failure, incompetence, sloth and lack of capacity is rewarded. Truly a sinister omen for the future.

Torture death of farmer Rudi Botes

noreply@blogspirit.com () — Sat, 19 Nov 2005 00:40:00 +0100

http://www.news24.com/Die_Volksblad/Nuus/0,,5-83_1814634,00.html -

Oct 11 2005 Legal journalist Jeanne Marie Versluis of Volksblad in the Free State, reports on the ongoing murder trial in Bloemfontein court of four young black people who, according to police, had tortured to death Afrikaner farmer Rudo Botes, 47, of the farm Genade in Bultfontein, the Free State - had stolen large quantities of mutton, and had then partied throughout the night next to the murder victim's mutilated body. Unusually for the terror-style farm attacks in South Africa, two of the attackers charged with the crime were women.

Mr Botes was found murdered on 30 July last year in front of his bed in the main bedroom. The lower part of his body was naked, his hands were tied behind his back, a towel was tied around his neck, and his penis had been tied up with a rope.Moreover, the bedroom looked as if a sexual orgy had taken place after the murder of the farmer - and empty liquor glasses confirmed the identity of the four accused, according to testimony. The bedroom and bathroom had been covered in blood and the bath 's tap had been left open for some reason, testified inspector Quetin Calvert, formerly of the police's Welkom serious crime unit who was the investigating officer at the time. This is only the fourth recorded time that women have allegedly been involved in the ongoing campaign of terror attacks being carried out steadily against Afrikaner farmers in South Africa -- and in which campaign 1,840 farmers have been killed over the past decade, according to the latest Transvaal Agricultural Union figures. Based on the presence of the farmer's stolen cellphone and other information, the inspector had then arrested two men and two women while they were having a barbeque with, as it turned out, the farmer's stolen mutton. The two women on trial are Lefulesele Justina Lesitsi (27) and Maria Molele Mapaseka (25). They and the two men, Victor Tsesetso Moremi (30) and Richard Qhekeza Sokapase (26), have denied any guilt in front of judge G.A. Hattingh. Calvert testified how he had found the farmer's stolen cellphone in the possession of Maria Mapaseka. She claimed it had 'belonged' to her boyfriend Lesitsi, the former inspector said. He had also found large quantities of mutton in their possession and the arrested people had admitted to him that the meat had come from the Botes farm, and that they were in fact eating some of it when they were arrested. Also found there: the farmer's stolen .38 revolver and six bullets, and other household goods which were identified as coming from the Botes homestead. The trial continues.

http://www.news24.com/Die_Volksblad/Nuus/0,,5-83_1814634,00.html