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Originally Posted by Revenant
But the Boers have been there for 200+ years, so no one alive today stole land from native tribesmen.
I'm also not sure how much farming was being done by the native African to begin with. I think they were mostly nomadic hunters, not unlike American Indians in the Great Plains.
Farm land ownership (as opposed to other types of land) by whites was at 85% at the end of apartheid and has since fallen to 72%.
But that isn't fast enough for the socialist opposition party. So, this is just a population purge.
The white farmers - who aren't rich to begin with - will have no assets and no reason to stay in SA. So they will emigrate back to Europe, probably Holland. Maybe the US or South America.
This will leave SA with no skilled farmers. They are going to repeat the same mistake as Rhodesia. The government hacks who are given the land will try to get migrant black farmers to farm it while the politically connected try to milk them for $$$. The end result will be as it was/is in Rhodesia - agricultural collapse and a nation that use to feed itself being forced to import food.
Rhodesia tried to lure white farmers back by promising not to seize the land again in the future. Needless to say, it isn't working.
Farming is often a hand-me down profession between family generations. You are either raised in farming and it is in your blood or you are not. It is very difficult and therefore rare for someone who lives in the city to chuck it all and just take up farming.
That's why this won't work.
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You are completely correct, but if you said it out loud, liberals would call you racist.
I think that in the American rural south there are many good black farmers. The land and equipment should be given to them to "homestead" the land in South Africa, and they should be given citizenship as well.
We could let the white people come over here and pick the crops, reducing the labor shortage.
