Is South Africa headed towards Civil War?
Farm Co-op members want a "more confrontational mode" with governmentFrom Eric Dondero:
A huge increase in hate crimes against ancestral Dutch farmers in the countryside. Rumors that the new communist-majority South African government is behind roaming bands of youth sent out to commit violent acts against the farmers.
And now a curious comment from Theo de Jager, deputy president of AgriSA, the commercial representative of both black and white farmers throughout South Africa.
From AllAfrica.com, "AgriSA to Farmers - Seek Engagement, Not Confrontation" Feb. 13
Farmers in South Africa do not have the culture of "organised confrontation..."De Jager goes on to assert that S. African banks are no longer lending to the farmers because of uncertainty; the government is threatening to confiscate their lands.
"What would we do? Block off the rural roads for a day; occupy Pretoria?" de Jager asks. Alienating public opinion is the last thing the country's 37000 commercial farmers, most of them white, need at this delicate stage...
De Jager, however, admits that AgriSA members, [want] the organisation "to go into confrontational mode" in order to force the government to remove the threat posed to the industry by its land reform policies
There’s something wrong with the statistics of land-ownership facts in this story. By Nov 2011, the ANC-regime owned 65,000 of the 85,000 farms registered as ‘white owned’ in 1996. Thus there cannot be more than 20,000 ‘white-owned farms’ remaining. And with so many farmers being murdered and their kin in the towns also undergoing the same fate – an average of 8 deadly attacks occur against whites in South Africa each day now — I am not surprised that white farmers are concerned about the growing hatecrime-rate against their families friends and compatriots countrywide. Since January this year, there have been more than 400 (!) violent riots by disgruntled black communities which block off roads and specifically target white motorists for their malicious vengeance for not getting the free electricity, free housing, free water-reticulation services which the ruling ANC regime has been promising them ever since 1994. Throughout the entire apartheid-period from 1948 right up to 1994, there were NEVER more than 50 riots a YEAR. Even at the height of the ‘struggle’ things were NEVER this violent. And this violence shows no sign of abating. Notice that NONE of this violence is initiated by the ‘white farmers’ or indeed by any whites. There were three peaceful protests by Afrikaners last month. They handed a petition to the government represented and strolled away again and not a voice was raised in anger even though they have every reason to become very angry at this onslaught they are being targetted by. Whites get the blame for everything: the ANC lies when it claims that ‘the country is still run by rich whites and all the blacks are poor’, when in fact more than 1,3mlllion of the 2.5-million workers who still have jobs in South africa, now earn 34% MORE than do whites, for instance. When writing an article one really should investigate whether statements are just propaganda-lies, or facts. It’s easy enough to find out the truth.
well the farmers need to organized and turn they farms into kibbutz like Israel .first they must bring more boere from the squatter camps. each farm should have at least 50 people to 100 as a community .they should live there produce food and have guns to protect them self. like that they will have jobs and security, that will be the boere survive .