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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 people‚ 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?
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 28 2018, @06:35PM (3 children)
Name one single place in the world run by that race of people which isn't a shithole. I'll take a downmod to mean that you have no counterexample, because otherwise you'd show me how I'm wrong.
I can't think of any country, which would be the proper counterexample. Cities count less because they get national support, including stuff like a stable currency and system of law.
The nicest city I can think of is Washington D.C., but it probably doesn't qualify. First of all, it might have a mayor but really the US congress runs the place. Second of all, much of it is a shithole.
Then you have places like New Orleans, Detroit, and Miami. Getting mugged is the norm, and often things go way worse. Riots are decently common.
The honest assessment is that every place run by them turns into a shithole.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Wednesday February 28 2018, @06:56PM (2 children)
Senegal, Ghana, Gabon, Benin, South Africa, Djibouti, most of Nigeria (they cheat a bit)...
Kinda depends on your "shithole" criteria: Colonials didn't help by propping dictators for decades, Namibia is a desert...
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 28 2018, @08:35PM (1 child)
Those places are not developed nations. The best of them is South Africa, the topic of this article, with absurdly high amounts of rape and lots of random violence. Nigeria has Boko Haram running around. Djibouti is a place where kids beg their mothers for scraps of fly-infested animal skins to eat. Benin is infamous for the "penis panic". In Ghana, Djibouti, and Senegal, 3 of every 400 people are slaves... right now, in 2018. (and Namibia is worse, nearly 1% in slavery) Gabon is a little better, at only 1 in 400 people enslaved.
As for the rest, look:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2016_UN_Human_Development_Report.svg [wikipedia.org]
Lots of per-country statistic maps look roughly the same.
Your best was Gabon. It's still worse then Mexico and Brazil. It's obviously worse than all of Europe, some of which is pretty much shithole, such as Greece.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 01 2018, @02:05AM
Yes? and who make the statistics? You anglos have a totally screwed up way to look at the world. What can you say about Brazil, you moron? Have you been to their beautiful mid-sized cities? Have enjoyed their southern highlands? You don't know what you're talking about. And, hey, Australia is better than France. Yeah, keep believing... these anglos...