A new law in South Africa allowing the seizure of white farmers’ land without compensation will lead to a brutal and bloody civil war, experts have warned.
The controversial land-confiscation policy proposed by the Ramaphosa-led ANC government in 2015, is currently on hold pending further review.
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Rt.com reports: The law, if passed, will allow South African authorities to seize lands from white farmers and redistribute them to the country’s black population without any compensation for the owners.
The proposed land reform has pitted radical groups among black South Africans ready to take land by force against white farmers who are ready to protect their property.
“We will take the land by force,” Peter Seolela, a member of the Economic Freedom Fighters party, told London-based television channel ITV. “We will not be embarrassed by this. It is our land and we want it now.”
The disputed land reform is an attempt by the South African government to address what they see as continuing injustice in the country, more than two decades after the end of apartheid. The policy of strict racial segregation, by which the country’s white minority held power, was abolished in 1994.
Much of the farmland in South Africa is still owned by the country’s white minority. President Cyril Ramaphosa pledged to answer the frustrations of the landless black majority, vowing to alter the South African constitution, inevitably sparking fears among the country’s white population.
“This land is bought and paid for. I have the title deeds that go back four generations,” said Bernadette Hall, whose husband was reportedly murdered by armed raiders six years ago.
“I lost my husband and now they want to take my farm,” Hall told the media. “I’ve put my blood and my sweat and everything into this. They might as well slit my throat and have done with it.”
Earlier this week, the ANC said the land reform bill had been withdrawn by the Portfolio Committee on Public Works pending further study, but reiterated its commitment to pursue the controversial program.
Sean Adl-Tabatabai
They will take the land and then do nothing with it,food shortages within 2 years.
International Law and a Mercedes Benze have one thing in common, You cannot explain how they work in a sentence to an ignorant person. Article 233 of the Constitution says that things must be consistent with International Law and Article 242 “The laws mentioned in schedule 7 are repealed , subject to section 243 and Schedule 6.
This works like the President’s Mercedes Benze and you can make one in your back yard this afternoon, and the EFF will sit on their backsides on the farms when they get them expecting the farm to work.
Go get your farm land in Europe where you belong near the Caucus mountains Africans take your land back!
The land will be useless once the skilled farmers leave. What was once prosperous land will be waste land. Chaos and famine will be the result