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| SA set to expropriate white-owned land soon |
| 2006-02-20 |
| South Africa will from next month start large-scale expropriations of land from white farmers after years of compensation negotiations proved unsuccessful, a top official said on Monday. Tozi Gwanya, South Africa's chief land claims commissioner, said the "willing buyer, willing seller" model would no longer apply to land restitution claims as many white farmers wanted more money than the government was prepared to pay. "There are in excess of 7 000 claims that have been outstanding," he said, referring to efforts by the government to redress apartheid-era land grabs in which many members of the black majority lost ancestral holdings. "We have been negotiating with some white farmers for two or three years especially in four provinces - Limpopo, Mpumalanga, North West and KwaZulu-Natal - and this has to stop," he said. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #10 It's termed "BEE" or Black Economic Empowerment in SA. Sound familiar, yes, pattered after our very own Affirmative Action program in the States. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2006-02-20 16:47 |
| #9 NO FOOD AID OF ANY SORT to any "nation" who pulls this crap. They're choosing suicide by hunger - let them go. I'm just sick of picking up the slack for these clowns. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2006-02-20 16:22 |
| #8 Jeez, the ANC really are stupid, aren't they?! They saw what a mess confiscating farms from real farmers made of Zim's food production, and now they are going to follow suit?!? Anyone that has money and/or talent had better flee SA right now, to avoid the flood of refugees in the next 2 years. And to think that Mandela actually fought this kind of crap, when he was President - only smart politco in the whole ANC. This is the onset of economic collapse for SA. |
| Posted by: Shieldwolf 2006-02-20 15:03 |
| #7 As I understand it, if you circle the drain slowly enough, you never get dizzy... |
| Posted by: .com 2006-02-20 12:42 |
| #6 The big chat right now is that a government prohibition on foreign land purchasing is coming soon. That would mean that nasty old foreign held property will be first on the chopping block for "expropriation." I can see only 'good things' for South Africa coming from all of this. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2006-02-20 12:41 |
| #5 So we get to see the 21st century verision of kulaks. Kim du Toit is right, Africa is a loss. |
| Posted by: whitecollar redneck 2006-02-20 12:07 |
| #4 Yeah. Remember Zimbabwe SA. |
| Posted by: newc 2006-02-20 11:12 |
| #3 It'll be okay. Bono will organize a concert. |
| Posted by: BH 2006-02-20 10:42 |
| #2 Many, many relations. SA famine to follow. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet O' Doom 2006-02-20 00:39 |
| #1 Does Farmin' B. Hard have relatives south of the border? |
| Posted by: Jackal 2006-02-20 00:05 |