Govt won't seize white farms

[Rudolph]

Govt won't seize white farms (http://www.news24.com/Content/SouthAfrica/News/1059/47dcbfba2e0f4400897a6eba76c17c5a/16-06-2009%2005-06/Govt_wont_seize_white_farms)
2009-06-16

Cape Town - Agriculture Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson said on Tuesday the continent's biggest maize producer would not seize white farms to redistribute to blacks as this would harm its economy.

"With our willing-buyer, willing-seller policy there are times when the land becomes too expensive for the state to purchase, and if we face a programme of expropriation, it would further destabilise the economic industry of agriculture," she told an agribusiness conference in Cape Town.


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Let's hope so...

[FullMetalJackass]

Maybe "they" learned from the mistake in Zimbabwe.

[21echo]

You live in Africa............This is a continent of contradictions. Mugabe and the current SA government ARE doing it right now, right under our noses.
Govt won't seize white farms (http://www.news24.com/Content/SouthAfrica/News/1059/47dcbfba2e0f4400897a6eba76c17c5a/16-06-2009%2005-06/Govt_wont_seize_white_farms)
2009-06-16

Cape Town - Agriculture Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson said on Tuesday the continent's biggest maize producer would not seize white farms to redistribute to blacks as this would harm its economy.

"With our willing-buyer, willing-seller policy there are times when the land becomes too expensive for the state to purchase, and if we face a programme of expropriation, it would further destabilise the economic industry of agriculture," she told an agribusiness conference in Cape Town.


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Let's hope so...

[21echo]

Thats a negative........Lessons have not and will not be learned. Zim is not on their radar. Africa's history is littered with incidents where it bites the hand that feeds it. Africa consumes, it does not produce. Mugabe is considered an elephant ( king ) amongst most of his peers.
Maybe "they" learned from the mistake in Zimbabwe.

[PeterRJG]

Thats a negative........Lessons have not and will not be learned. Zim is not on their radar. Africa's history is littered with incidents where it bites the hand that feeds it. Africa consumes, it does not produce. Mugabe is considered an elephant ( king ) amongst most of his peers.

A guy who has killed 80000+ members of a tribe other than his own is considered a king and an elephant by his peers.

I'd like to say "only in Africa" but I'm sure this baboonery has happened elsewhere.

[Lazer]

its not really the govt that we need to be concerned about, lots of white farmers are targetted by criminals who are encouraging them or their heirs to sell their farms and move to more urbanised areas.

obviously these criminal acts are never successfully prosecuted by the authorities.

[hOMEr_jAy]

Maybe "they" learned from the mistake in Zimbabwe.
Exactly my thought. The way the whites got their lands might be highly disputed, but you´ve got to be realistic with that issue. Simply replacing skilled workers with unsilled ones does not work out quite well...

[Johnny_H02]

Thats a negative........Lessons have not and will not be learned. Zim is not on their radar. Africa's history is littered with incidents where it bites the hand that feeds it. Africa consumes, it does not produce. Mugabe is considered an elephant ( king ) amongst most of his peers.

Why are you typing like this? and not just using normal font/text? Is what your saying so important that it has to jump out and ****-slap me in the face before I read it?

[Rudolph]

Min: We need white farmers (http://www.news24.com/Content/SouthAfrica/Politics/1057/e689e50b9cba4cf39c251ac4b986780f/17-06-2009%2007-06/Min_We_need_white_farmers)
2009-06-17

Cape Town - Government wants to tap into the goodwill that exists among white commercial farmers to help grow the black farming sector, Agriculture Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson said on Wednesday.

Speaking at the end of debate in the National Assembly on her department's budget vote, she warned it was wrong to label white commercial farmers as "the enemy".

"We must work together to do more. We will listen to all stakeholders. We will listen to those who have competence and skills. We do not have the luxury of time to reinvest in these.

"There are historically advantaged commercial farmers who have the knowledge and who have the know-how. And there is goodwill among white commercial farmers. There is goodwill; they want to help.

"It is tapping into that goodwill that is important, and not to always blame and label white commercial farmers as the enemy. There are patriotic white South Africans who want to help this country," she told MPs.

Government would work together with farmers who believed their collective future lay in South Africa, but not with those who were "condescending, patronising and racist" in nature.

"We are going to need... [farmers who] will share the risk of failure. If a farm collapses, it is going to be the responsibility of both white and black white farmers to address the failure," she said.



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[Skukuza]

If they start to take the farms and the country slumps to an all time economic low then the commie anc government has only them selves to blame.