Zulu Nation Vows To Protect White Farmers Against Land Seizures

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South Africa's Zulu Nation offers full support to white farmers who are having their land seized by the government

The largest ethnic group in South Africa, Zulu, has vowed to help the country’s white farmers who are having their land violently seized by the government. 

Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini said the group will stand in solidarity with South African minority rights group AfriForum.

“The Zulu nation I’m talking about will not exist if we don’t have food. That’s why I say farmers must come closer so that we discuss what we can do when we talk about agriculture and the availability of enough food in the land. That’s why I’m asking AfriForum of the Boers to come and help us,” Zwelithini said.

Rt.com reports: “Because when government started talking about the appropriation of land, expropriation without compensation, Boers downed tools. There is no food in South Africa,” he added.

Zulu people are the largest ethnic group in South Africa, with an estimated 10-12 million people living mainly in the province of KwaZulu-Natal. The group accounts for more than a fifth of the country’s population and its opinion is important in the context of the general elections next year.

“Anyone who wants to be voted for and elected by us, I’m going to talk now, anyone who wants to be elected by us must come and kneel here and commit that I will never touch your land,” the Zulu King said.

While kings have no official power in modern South Africa, they still have the loyalty of millions of people and are recognized in the constitution as traditional leaders.

The land expropriation program run by President Cyril Ramaphosa is designed to redistribute land to poor black people to tackle severe inequality 24 years after the end of apartheid. It mostly involves lands owned by Boers, whites primarily of Dutch descent. However, the program has aroused discontent among the Zulus, too.

The Zulu King said he is waiting for a meeting with the president. “He (Ramaphosa) must come here… and say it, write it down in an agreement and sign off that the land of the Zulus will not be touched,” Zwelithini said.

1 Comment

  1. Maybe the zulu king remembers what happened in the close Zimbabwe when Mugabe’s regime grabbed the land from white farmers: a dramatically drop in agriculture production, starvation, worsening in life expectation, inflation…
    In other words, the death of a country that previously was noted as the Africa’s Switzerland, thanks to its diffused wellness.

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