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South African Government To Seize Farms From White Farmers
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<blockquote data-quote="TRF_heineken" data-source="post: 912884" data-attributes="member: 40658"><p>In a sense, yes. But Confiscation has an element of wrongdoing/illegal side to it, which isn't the case here.</p><p></p><p>Most of the farmers have been farming there for over 10 years at least, some of these farms have been handed down by generations before them.</p><p></p><p>The idea of the expropriation of land is to provide more land to the masses in order to improve agricultural sectors both domestically and internationally. But they forget that with the current plan of buying out land and giving it to previously disadvantaged communities, these new farmers have now idea about farming, and the financial implications when they have the farm. Most of them either lease the land back to the farmer they bought it from, or strike some sort of deal, or they keep the land and let it turn into a wasteland. Here in my area we had some of the biggest tobacco farms in the continent, and they were first targeted, if you go to that farm now, it's just desolate empty savanna, with no site of it ever being a productive farm.</p><p></p><p>There's a lot more to this story than what the mainstream media shows around the world, and the problem is that most of what they are trying to explain to the wider audience is lost in translation.</p><p></p><p>I think one of the biggest obstacles they will have is the actual amendment of the constitution. And my guess is that a lot of advocates will join the fray in objecting against the amendment when they represent relevant parties. The other issue will be the Attorney/legal sector who won't be in favour of this amendment, as it will again be an attempt to take away their form of income with regards to the registration process. And I know there's a lot of lawyers already busy making plans to stand against this plan should it go so far.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TRF_heineken, post: 912884, member: 40658"] In a sense, yes. But Confiscation has an element of wrongdoing/illegal side to it, which isn't the case here. Most of the farmers have been farming there for over 10 years at least, some of these farms have been handed down by generations before them. The idea of the expropriation of land is to provide more land to the masses in order to improve agricultural sectors both domestically and internationally. But they forget that with the current plan of buying out land and giving it to previously disadvantaged communities, these new farmers have now idea about farming, and the financial implications when they have the farm. Most of them either lease the land back to the farmer they bought it from, or strike some sort of deal, or they keep the land and let it turn into a wasteland. Here in my area we had some of the biggest tobacco farms in the continent, and they were first targeted, if you go to that farm now, it's just desolate empty savanna, with no site of it ever being a productive farm. There's a lot more to this story than what the mainstream media shows around the world, and the problem is that most of what they are trying to explain to the wider audience is lost in translation. I think one of the biggest obstacles they will have is the actual amendment of the constitution. And my guess is that a lot of advocates will join the fray in objecting against the amendment when they represent relevant parties. The other issue will be the Attorney/legal sector who won't be in favour of this amendment, as it will again be an attempt to take away their form of income with regards to the registration process. And I know there's a lot of lawyers already busy making plans to stand against this plan should it go so far. [/QUOTE]
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