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Mercer - This is what 'Land Reform' looks like in South Africa
[WND] He who believes he has a right to another man’s property ought to produce proof that he is its rightful owner. "As the old legal adage goes, ’Possession is nine-tenths of the law,’ as it is the best evidence in our uncertain world of legitimate title. The burden of proof rests squarely with the person attempting to alter and abolish present property titles." (From " Into the Cannibal’s Pot: Lessons For America From Post-Apartheid South-Africa".)It is to this potent principle that democratic rule in South Africa has taken an axe ‐ or, rather, an assegai. Here is how taking land legally currently works in South Africa, a place the U.S. State Department has only just lauded as "a strong democracy with resilient institutions. ...," a country merely "grappling with the difficult issue of land reform." "Land reform," of course, is a euphemism for land distribution in the Robert Mugabe mold. The process currently in place typically begins with a "tribe" or group of individuals who band together to claim vast tracts of private property. If these loosely and conveniently conjoined groups know anything, it’s this: South Africa’s adapted, indigenized law allows coveted land, owned and occupied by another, to be obtained with relative ease. See, the country no longer enjoys the impressive Western system of Roman-Dutch law it once enjoyed. Lax law and poorly protected property rights signal a free-for-all on the lives of white owners and their livestock. Related: Breitbart - Liberal South African Think Tank: Trump Is Right About Land Reform Posted by: Besoeker 2018-08-24 |
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