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posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday February 28 2018, @01:17PM   Printer-friendly
from the Apartheid-2.0 dept.

As reported in news.com.au, South Africa's Parliament have voted to "expropriate" land from white farmers with no compensation.

From TFA:

The motion was brought by Julius Malema, leader of the radical Marxist opposition party the Economic Freedom Fighters, and passed overwhelmingly by 241 votes to 83 against. The only parties who did not support the motion were the Democratic Alliance, Freedom Front Plus, Cope and the African Christian Democratic Party
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"The time for reconciliation is over. Now is the time for justice," Mr Malema was quoted by News24 as telling parliament. "We must ensure that we restore the dignity of our people without compensating the criminals who stole our land."
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Mr Malema has been leading calls for land confiscation, forcing the ANC to follow suit out of fear of losing the support of poorer black voters. In 2016, he told supporters he was "not calling for the slaughter of white peopleā€š at least for now"

This policy has been tried in other African countries before, most recently Zimbabwe, with disastrous results. The farms appropriated usually fail rapidly, leading to food shortages and economic destruction. Will South Africa be able to avoid repeating history, or is it about to slide into 3rd World status?


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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by riT-k0MA on Wednesday February 28 2018, @02:31PM (3 children)

    by riT-k0MA (88) on Wednesday February 28 2018, @02:31PM (#645149)

    You're not entirely correct. There are a large number of people, still living, who were forcefully removed from their homes during the Apartheid regime. Many of them are grandparents. Some are even great grandparents. They want their land returned to them so that they may will it onto their descendants.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 28 2018, @03:32PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 28 2018, @03:32PM (#645183)

    But they wont get their land returned to them.

  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 28 2018, @03:42PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 28 2018, @03:42PM (#645190)

    How far back do you play this game of "turn back the clock"?
    Can we turn it even farther back to when a Boer family settled unoccupied land that wasn't black controlled at that time? Do white people get it back? If not, do we ever give land to the San, since they have occupied South Africa for tens of thousands of years, rather than the Bantu newcomers?

    None of this propety theft is fair. If you feel blacks are disadvantaged, then the govt should fund programs for them funded by non-oppressive taxes.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 28 2018, @03:47PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 28 2018, @03:47PM (#645192)

    Grandparents and great grandparents will soon be dead.
    They can't do anything with the land, so you are advocating a windfall to people who never knew the land. They don't have it coming to them because it wasn't taken from them. It's history at this point. New solutions are needed at this point.