Stop South Africa's government from illegally confiscating white farms

  • by: Lucy B
  • recipient: The South African government

The South African government has said that they will be 'confiscating' white farmer's land to 'give back' to the black percentage of the population to 'resolve' the racist injustice done by colonials in the 1800s.

First of all, if you wish to fight racism, you cannot achieve peace by becoming racist to the opposing side. South Africa obviously hasn't learnt from A) the appartheid in the 1900s and B) Zimbabwe's mistakes.
They are throwing away everything that the late Nelson Mandela fought for just because they want to get more votes for the upcoming elections.

Mugabe tried that. Mugabe got more votes. But, Mugabe made Zimbabwe become a country run for one man. He killed a lot of people, made things corrupt, created the huge inflation in 2008, rigged most of the elections and was creating problems until the day that Zimbabwe's citizens decided to take things into their own hands and stand up to the dictator.
No one liked Mugabe in the end of his presidential chapter of life. And Ramaphosa, the new South African president wishes to follow in his dictatorship footsteps.

As The Sovereign Man website explains it- "The new South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa has declared that the government will be 'confiscating' white farmer's land to 'give back' to the black percentage of the population.

How does he plan on doing that?
Confiscation. Specifically– confiscation without compensation.
"The expropriation of land without compensation is envisaged as one of the measures that we will use to accelerate redistribution of land to black South Africans." Ramaphosa minced no words: he's talking about taking land from white farmers and giving it to black South Africans. Astonishingly, he followed up that statement by saying, "We will handle it in a way that is not going to damage our economy. . .". Wow, what a relief. For a minute it sounded like South Africa wants to do what Zimbabwe did several years ago.
Oh... wait a minute.
That's exactly what Zimbabwe did.

Seeking to correct similar colonial and Apartheid-era injustices in his country, Zimbabwe's president Robert Mugabe initiated a land redistribution program in 1999-2000. Thousands of white-owned farms were confiscated by the government, and the farmers were forced out. Bear in mind that Zimbabwe used to be known as the breadbasket of southern Africa. Zimbabwe's world-class farmers were major food exporters to the rest of the region. But within a few years of Mugabe's land distribution, food production plummeted.

Without its professional, experienced farmers, the nation went from being an agricultural export powerhouse to having to rely on handouts from the United Nations' World Food Programme. Hyperinflation and a multi-decade depression followed. If there's an economic model in the world that you DON'T want to follow, it's Zimbabwe. And you'd think that the politicians in neighboring South Africa would know that. They had a front-row seat to the effects of Mugabe's land redistribution, not to mention they had to absorb millions of starving Zimbabwean refugees who came across their borders.
Yet this is precisely the policy that they want to adopt.
However you might feel about social justice, it seems pretty clear that copying Zimbabwe is a pretty stupid idea… and will only end up hurting the people they claim to be helping.

Yet the president claims that they want to initiate a land redistribution program that won't impact the economy or South Africa's food security.
Yeah sure. And I want to be the starting quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys next season. But sadly you won't see Simon Black throwing any touchdown passes anytime soon. That's because we have to live in a world with certain realities and limitations. One of those realities is that land distribution, even if you believe the intentions to be noble, never works.

And of course, the most important reality is that anyone who willfully chooses to copy Zimbabwe's economic model deserves to suffer the consequences of their stupidity."

SOUTH AFRICA MUST LEARN ITS LESSON BEFORE TOO LATE!

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