Violent attacks against South Africa’s white farmers are on the rise, according to Paul Toohey, a reporter from Australia’s Daily Telegraph, who traveled to the country.
Last month, South Africa’s parliament voted to allow white-owned land expropriation without compensation. That followed South Africa’s new President Cyril Ramaphosa’s pledge to return the lands owned by white farmers since the 1600s to the black citizens of the country. He claimed the land was “taken under colonialism and apartheid.”
“This is normal in South Africa to be attacked on a farm,” a 39-year old farmer Berdus Henrico told the reporter.
Berdus and his 51-year old partner Estelle Nieuwenhuys have been raided in the Limpopo province. The farmer has three bullet wounds – two through his shoulder and one through his face that came out the back of his neck.
“They took my hunting gun, my shotgun, two cell phones, our DVD player, our TV,” said Berdus, adding that Estelle was praying, out loud, begging them to stop.
“They want money and they want guns. They want the people off the land so as they can go on like they want to. They want it here like it was in Zimbabwe a few years ago when they chased all the whites out and let it go to the ground.”
According to AfriForum, a group that was set up to draw attention to the farmers’ plight, there were a record 404 farm attacks in 2017, four times the number recorded in the country a decade ago. The 2018 figures are expected to easily top last year’s numbers.
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4 comments:
Soon enough, the indigenous people of S. Africa will get their wish and run off all of the White People and just like in the other countries that have already done so, in a few years time, will be begging the white farmers to return and produce food for the starving population. I spoke with a South African friend and he pointed this out to me.
I have a high-degree of certainty that I am not wrong on this one.
2:47 PM Boggles my mind how people can be so stupid and not forward thinking
Without White people there would be no civilization on the planet.
I have several personal friends who LEGALLY came to America Many years ago and became American citizens after a LONG and Expensive period of time...they left their parents back in S. Africa and their parents are land owners. This is such a sad situation. The current leader has made it clear that the indigenous population can terrorize and kill these land owners (many 3rd and 4th generation), with NO retribution, no accountability.
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