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South Africa to mimic Zimbabwe on farms?
Marxist government's land-grab policy against
whites intensifies
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_IDF117
Posted: September 3, 2005
By Anthony C. LoBaido
Editor's note: Longtime WorldNetDaily contributor
Anthony C. LoBaido has made no less than six trips
to South Africa in recent years and has lived,
worked and traveled all over South Africa and
neighboring countries.
As South Africa begins its second decade after
apartheid's dismantlement in 1994, the ruling
Marxist African National Congress has rapidly
escalated what some call "the Zimbabwe paradigm" –
moving to more aggressively seize its white
citizens' farms, possessions and futures.
South African President Thabo Mbeki, a devout
Marxist, has been a strong supporter of Zimbabwe
despite dictator Robert Mugabe's disastrous
policies in the former Rhodesia, once known as the
breadbasket of southern Africa. Now it appears
Zimbabwe's problems have been projected onto South
Africa. Almost 1,700 white South African farmers
have been murdered since 1994, with another 15,000
recorded attacks. White children, babies and the
elderly have been raped and mutilated in these
crimes, which often are carried out with archetype
military precision and the use of snipers.
President Bush visited South Africa during his
first term in office and promised to look into the
plight of South Africa's white farmers. This after
being given a video presentation by Dr. Pieter
Mulder of the Freedom Front Plus Party. Thus far,
the president has publicly said nothing about the
plight of the white Afrikaner farmers and has made
Mbeki his "point man" on the Zimbabwe issue. While
Bush did sign a presidential directive calling for
action against Mugabe, American and British
influence on the situation appears negligible. The
opposition MDC in Zimbabwe is still cowed into
submission while massive socialist and
quasi-Maoist agrarian and land reform schemes
continue to plunge "Zim" into despair.
Now, the Marxist-Leninist cadres of the African
National Congress, or ANC, fellow travelers and
sympathizers, are ready to take the next and final
step in the liquidation of South Africa's whites
and their wealth. Some years ago, Mbeki told the
world: "Because of colonialism of a special type
our victory in the national liberation struggle
did not result in the departure of the foreign
ruling class."
The ANC has enacted a "willing seller, willing
buyer" program seeking to transfer white-owned
farmland to black South Africans, but critics have
countered that plan is moving far too slowly for
their liking. White farmers believe government
corruption, ineptness and inertia have been the
reasons why farmland hasn't been transferred over
very quickly.
Farmers claim they are charging market-related
prices for their land, but the ANC has set far
different values on the same land. As such, the
ANC blames the farmers for slowing down their land
reform project. The ANC owns lots of land in South
Africa. The problem is the ANC officially doesn't
know how much land it owns.
What is known is that the ANC government could
invoke the Restitution of Land Rights Amendment
Act. This Act was passed in 2003 and clearly
authorizes the ANC to expropriate land.
South Africa does not have a Bureau of Land
Management, as does the U.S. Rather, the land
custodians come from a troika of governmental
tributaries – agriculture, land affairs and public
works.
ANC-owned land most likely stands at 19.8 percent
of the total surface area of South Africa. Between
5 and 10 percent of that land could be
redistributed today if need be. The ANC wants to
have 30 percent of all commercial farmland under
black ownership by 2014. As of December 2004, 3
percent of commercial farmland had been
redistributed. Adding to the difficulty is the
fact that farming, including genetically modified
farming, has become an increasingly high-tech
venture, calling for a high degree of
intelligence, training and dedication. It is one
thing to hand over the land. It is another thing
to keep that land fruitful and feed the masses.
Objectively, the ANC needs South Africa's
vineyards to export wine. That is a cash crop
Mbeki would not want to sabotage. Also, as long as
there are whites and white farmers in South
Africa, the ANC will be able to cry "racism" and
"apartheid's legacy" as a cover for its own
corruption. Once "the white card" has been played,
as it has by Mugabe in recent years, the ANC will
have to stand on its own merits. This does not
bode well for the ANC, as two-thirds of South
Africa's voters sat out the most recent national
elections.
Many white South Africans have fled the rape,
crime, murder, HIV and all-around social
disintegration of this once wealthy,
anti-communist nation. Destinations like the U.S.,
UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand are now home
to the de facto Afrikaner and South African
Diaspora. Like the Hmong, Karen, Montagnards,
South Sudanese and Kurds, the Afrikaners will
continue to exist as a people but not as a nation.
Because of their Calvinist background and racial
and cultural solidarity, white South Africans,
especially the Afrikaners, are ill-prepared for
the realities of living in post-Christian and
post-modern Western Civilization, where someone
like Paris Hilton is not only tolerated but
celebrated.
South Africa's farmers are a special breed. The
term "Afrikaner" (white African) is
interchangeable with the word "Boer" which is
Dutch for "farmer." The Afrikaners fought off the
British in not one but two Anglo-Boer Wars, and
only lost the 1899-1902 Boer War when the British
rounded up 26,000 Afrikaner women and children and
starved them off in the world's first modern
concentration camps.
That battle continues today, albeit in another
form. A few years back, British Labor Party
Cabinet member Jack Straw visited South Africa and
presented the ANC with millions of pounds sterling
of British taxpayer money, part of which was used
for "land reform and justice."
According to groups like Genocide Watch, however,
what is going on in South Africa's killing fields
is not justice, but genocide. There are only about
40,000 white farmers in South Africa. The 1,700
murdered from that group is the highest per capita
murder rate in the world. The average murder rate
is 7 out of 100,000 worldwide. For the South
African farmer it is 313 out of 100,000. The
second-highest per capita murder rate in the world
is that of the South African police.
South Africa's farms are also unique in that the
ANC has allowed transnational corporations like
Monsanto to make South Africa the world's foremost
experimental laboratory for genetically modified
foods. Under the apartheid regime, only one GM
permit was granted. Now they are legion.
GM or GE foods in South Africa are promoted by a
group called Africa-Bio. They in turn are
monitored by a group called Bio-Watch. Africa-Bio
is seen, rightly or wrongly by critics, as a
public-relations arm of the transnational
corporations operating in Africa and elsewhere.
On one side of the farmland issue are of course
South Africa's white farmers, Agri-SA and the
Transvaal Agricultural Union. On the other side
are the ANC, the Young Communist League, or YCL,
and a group called the Landless People's Movement,
or LPM.
As WorldNetDaily has reported, a few years back,
the LPM seemed to be a poorly funded fringe group
unable to articulate its own message in a
meaningful way. However, according to Marge
Leitner, a former South African policewoman and
acute observer of the political scene, thanks to
transnational leftist groups, the LPM has been
"transformed" into a muscular force to be reckoned
with vis-à-vis the farm issue and shouldn't be
underestimated.
"The Landless Peoples Movement, that radical
grouping who, even as recently as two years ago,
were comprised of the rubbish that roams the
streets, has suddenly evolved into a group with
quite a bit of clout," Leitner told WorldNetDaily.
"Suddenly they have speakers who are literate and
reasonably articulate. I became suspicious of this
and did some digging and lo and behold, guess what
I found out? There is massive international
(leftist) support for the LPM. One needs to keep
this in mind as well. Once again, outside forces,
in addition to the leftist Marxist lot here, are
involved in the destabilization of this country.
They are definitely in the mix.
Continued Leitner: "This will be a battle for
survival! Agri-SA as well as the TAU are standing
firm at this point. The Communists of course are
calling for the nationalization of all land in
South Africa."
Specifically, those Communists are working toward
amending the Constitution to allow for all land to
be nationalized.
South Africa's Constitution is unique in that it
is the only constitution in the world that grants
legal rights for homosexuals and abortion
advocates. HIV/AIDS is not a "gay" issue or
perceived as such in South Africa, as compared to
the U.S. Gay rights are accepted as the norm. The
land issue however, is another story completely.
David Masondo, the chairperson of the YCL recently
stated there must soon be an end to the "sunset
clause" – granted to the white remnant by the
late, white ex-KGB colonel and ANC leader Joe
Slovo – that gave constitutional property and land
rights to individuals.
"Even if it means invasions, we need some kind of
review," Masondo recently told South Africans. The
league's national secretary, Buti Manamela,
pitched in with: "We believe there should be no
private ownership of land in this country."
These Communist resolutions are part and parcel of
the YCL's national policy and strategy. Leitner
told WorldNetDaily: "This is what is going on with
our farmers. Zimbabwe is in our face! The rhetoric
and the hate propaganda have gone up quite a few
notches. It is quite clear from what the Transvaal
Agricultural Union is saying, that they just used
the land summit to drive home the demand for the
expropriation of land, irrespective of any
counter-arguments presented by the farmers. All of
this will lead to South Africa joining the ranks
of this famine-stricken continent rather sooner
than later."
Because of the pressure exerted by so-called
"landless" groups, the ANC has said it will review
its land-transfer policy. The ANC's agriculture
and Land Affairs Minister Thoko Didiza said in
July at the national land summit in Gauteng (the
former Transvaal): "What it means is that the
state must come up with a mechanism."
The abandonment of the "willing seller, willing
buyer" program for Zimbabwe-style land invasions
would have national and global repercussions for
South Africa, the rand, for South Africa's exports
and the willingness of the socialist Labor Party
in the UK to continue funding Mbeki's Nepad (New
Economic Program for African Development) and the
African Union, or AU.
The AU seeks the economic, political, monetary and
military integration of the African continent as a
sub-block of the emerging world government. Mbeki
has designs on leading the AU and/or U.N. (he
recently purchased a 600 million rand plane)
though he will continue to micromanage South
Africa long after he leaves the political scene
through a web of committees, all which report
directly to him.
The stakes of this grand game have not been lost
on the Afrikaner farmers. According to the TAU:
The newspaper headline 'Land Shock' encapsulated
in essence the cumulative hot air, socialistic
demands and racist resentment which characterized
the land-reform summit held over five days at
taxpayers' expense during the last week in July
this year. The results of the summit were
pre-ordained – we knew the minister of land
affairs would ruminate on abolishing the "willing
seller, willing buyer" principle – the linchpin of
rural property security in South Africa – that the
chattering land-grab classes would reiterate their
ideological claims, and that the commercial
farming sector would present logical and reasoned
arguments to a summit which was clearly not
listening.
The conference can be seen as a prelude to more
and more assaults on the commercial farming sector
in South Africa. The reiteration of clauses in the
communist-contrived "Freedom Charter" of 50 years
ago (the land shall belong to those who work it)
was given prominent play, and it is clear the
summit was to prepare South Africa for a
Zimbabwe-style grab of productive commercial farms
in the not-too-distant future.
The most ominous revelation was Thabo Mbeki's
statement – reported on the BBC's website (but not
widely disseminated in South Africa) – that the
Zimbabwe land grab was delayed "so that
negotiations for South Africa's liberation would
succeed." Mbeki said that when South Africa was
negotiating its "transition to democracy" (at the
time Zimbabwe started its land grab), the
Organization of African Unity had asked Zimbabwe
to stop the program as it would "frighten the
apartheid government in South Africa."
In essence, Mbeki is telling us that the wholesale
land theft which was to proceed in Zimbabwe was
put on the back burner so as not to frighten South
Africa's whites who were in the process of
surrendering their sovereignty on the false
premise of power-sharing. This masterful sleight
of hand worked, of course, and it is evidence of
Mbeki's supreme self-assurance that he would tell
the world of this now, when his own government is
relentlessly harassing and hobbling South Africa's
commercial farming sector.
The summit revealed the stark chasm which exists
between the realists and the ideologues in South
Africa, the last country in Africa to produce
enough food for its own people. Given the vivid
examples of Africa's inability to feed itself –
Zimbabwe, Niger, Chad, Sudan, Angola, Mozambique
are but a few – one would think that those
governing South Africa would be more sober in
their land-reform goals. But logic in the Western
sense plays no part in the thinking of a
government which is prepared to hand over R6
billion of taxpayers' money to the heinous tyrant
now destroying his country, Zimbabwe. This lack of
logic could be seen in the ludicrous demands,
vicious accusations and lying propaganda which
emanated from the land summit.
Will the world sit by and allow those in power to
destroy the last remaining working country in
Africa? Does the world want another Zimbabwe,
another Niger? South Africa's commercial farming
sector appeals to the world to wake up and monitor
the deliberate efforts by the SA government and
its cohorts to drive South Africa's white farmers
off their land, thus bringing the spectra of
famine ever closer.
How of all of this will shake out is anyone's
guess. Will the world come to the aid of the South
African farmers? What is certain is that the
Afrikaners have been on their own for over 100
years, independent of the emerging, Western-led,
transnational, multicultural, globalist system.
And like the Amish and Mennonites, they'll
probably be on their own for at least 100 more.
--
Jim
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Western_Nationalist
Union Against Multi-culty
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