I've seen this story over the last year and it's only getting worse. I can't remember if it was 60 minutes or another nightly news show that had this story on last year. This is so sad and wrong in so many ways.
Just weeks after we reported that white South African farmers, facing racial genocide, had begun seeking refuge - from the violent attacks and death threats of their own government's policies - in friendly foreign nations such as Australia, RT reports the first 50 families of Boers, descendants of Dutch settlers in South Africa, could soon be moving to Russia to escape rising violence against farmers.
As a reminder, back in February, after literally years of scandal, abuse, and incompetence, South Africa's president Jacob Zuma was finally forced to resign last week, and new President, Cyril Ramaphosa, was supposed to represent a positive, new chapter for South Africa.
However, as Simon Black wrote at the time, Ramaphosa addressed the nation's parliament in Cape Town and made clear that his priority is to heal the divisions and injustice of the past, going all the way back to the original European colonists in the 1600s taking land from the indigenous tribes.
Ramaphosa called this "original sin", and stated that he wants to see "the return of the land to the people from whom it was taken to heal the divisions of the past."
How does he plan on doing that?
Confiscation. Specifically confiscation without compensation.
Just weeks after we reported that white South African farmers, facing racial genocide, had begun seeking refuge - from the violent attacks and death threats of their own government's policies - in friendly foreign nations such as Australia, RT reports the first 50 families of Boers, descendants of Dutch settlers in South Africa, could soon be moving to Russia to escape rising violence against farmers.
As a reminder, back in February, after literally years of scandal, abuse, and incompetence, South Africa's president Jacob Zuma was finally forced to resign last week, and new President, Cyril Ramaphosa, was supposed to represent a positive, new chapter for South Africa.
However, as Simon Black wrote at the time, Ramaphosa addressed the nation's parliament in Cape Town and made clear that his priority is to heal the divisions and injustice of the past, going all the way back to the original European colonists in the 1600s taking land from the indigenous tribes.
Ramaphosa called this "original sin", and stated that he wants to see "the return of the land to the people from whom it was taken to heal the divisions of the past."
How does he plan on doing that?
Confiscation. Specifically confiscation without compensation.
Ramaphosa minced no words: he's talking about taking land from white farmers and giving it to black South Africans.Quote:
"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."
