[13 Pics] Zimbabwe-style Land Invasion happens in S.Africa!

Our Govt has been saying for years that Zimbabwe-style land invasions would never happen here because it would be done legally. Of course that does not mean our farmers won't be CHEATED out of their land. They will be. The Govt has already abandoned the "willing buyer, willing seller principle". So already, inch by inch, we're following the same path as Zimbabwe where the farmers just get a rawer deal as time goes by.

However it is true that MASS land invasions Zimbabwe-style have not happened - not yet anyway. Maybe when Jacob Zuma becomes our President they will.

Some years back, 40,000 blacks did invade a farm here in S.Africa. To my knowledge they never got rid of them.

But the other day, we were treated to another impromptu, Zimbabwe-style land invasion. This one has a very murky background - with some shades of Zimbabwe. In Zimbabwe the so-called "War Veterans" were the main culprits in the land invasions (or so Mugabe claimed).

In KwaZulu-Natal, we were treated to a land invasion by "former MK soldiers" and former IFP troops. The IFP are supposedly pro-Western. But all these "former soldiers" say they invaded this farm because they want to be integrated into the South African Defence Force! Huh?

Well, the Govt says that former MK (ANC Armed wing) soldiers had been integrated into the SANDF years ago and there was no further integration going on.

In the news report it is claimed that 350 of this group were arrested because they were sneaking into Mozambique in order to get military training!?!?

The news report did not mention exactly how many had invaded this white farm, but the white farm manager had decided to flee because he felt his life was in danger.

This story sounds strange and disjointed and to me it makes no sense. They want to join the army so they invade a white man's farm? And what's all this talk of military training? Do these guys want to start a war... against whom?? Lots of unanswered and strange questions here... This bizarre one will be worth watching. I am curious to see what now happens on this farm and whether our crime-loving, farm-murder-loving Govt will actually do anything about them.

The following TvNews footage is from eTV.

Here we see that they settled on this farm in Pongola, in KwaZulu-Natal.



The one guy in this photo is wearing some kind of military uniform.















The "former soldiers" talk to the TV news team claiming they want to be integrated into the S.African Army!!!











Source: eTV

Date Posted: Sunday 24-Jun-2007
No legal opposition against 24,197 land-confiscations over past 3 years' - ANC-Minister admits

June 22, 2007 - Landbouweekblad reports from Cape Town's parliament that not one of the 24,197 land-owners whose land was ordered confiscated over the past three years have ever lodged any kind of formal objections to these 'land restitution claims".

Acid-tongued agriculture minister Mrs Lulu Xingwana finally was forced to admit in parliament this week that of the 24,198 farms which were disowned at the cost of R4,7-billion, not one of these confiscations had faced any legal challenges from the owners. In other words, South Africa's commercial land-owners are being remarkably cooperative.

She was challenged to tell the truth about this in parliament due to her frequent media claims that white farmers were slowing down the land-reform process by lodging formal challenges. She often used very nasty insults aimed at the country's professional food-producers, for instance once even calling them 'taai-heads" (stubborn-heads), which is a gross insult aimed at Afrikaner farmers..

LINK TO HER COMMENTS:
http://www.lawlibrary.co.za/notice/wordsandde...

The ANC-regime has to target its white land-owners as scapegoats -- although they are the only ones who actually produce enough excess food to keep the entire population of 47-million people fed each year -- because the government is in a quagmire as to how to move with the land reform agenda.

The ANC-regime fears that it might create a situation similar to that of Zimbabwe where the country was plunged into a chronic food shortage and collapsed economy.

This happened because its professional farmers had been forced to leave country enmasse after their lands were seized, often with great violence, and given to landless black families. South Africa does not want to give its Western business partners the impression that South Africa now also is following the path of Zimbabwe.

ONLY 12% of SA CAN EVEN BE FARMED
Of semi-arid South Africa's total land surface only twelve percent can be used for food-production and the commercial farmers use only 70% of this land for daily food production. The rest of South Africa's more arid farmland is used for the highly lucrative tourist-trade and game-farming.

In spite of the massive land-expropriations of the past decade, the country now is still able to produce enough to feed itself.

It has this past year become obvious however that many staple foods often are in short supply in grocery shops these days, such as cheese, milk, maize, wheat, potatoes, bread and rice.

The country's total food-production has already more than halved since 1994 and especially these staple- food prices have quadrupled since 2006.

Recent studies by Grahamstown university students showed that many millions of poor South Africans now only buy store-bought food once a week -- many families relying on the old-age pensioners for their income. The rest of their food comes from caught 'bush meat' and field-foods. Thus the South African countryside is also being denuded of all edible plants, shrubs and wildlife, and its streams are emptied out rapidly of all fish species.

The ANC-regime must also have noticed that so much the expropriated, once so productive farm-lands in Zimbabwe now lay completely idle and that the country's agriculture-based economy has completely collapsed -- causing a massive flow of starving Zimbabwean refugees into SA.

Both in Zimbabwe and South Africa, the 'newly-restored black farmers' actually consist of large tribal family groups of traditional subsistence farmers who are given very tiny tracts to farm on and soon deplete the soil.

It's the women and girls do all the hard labour and work the land with very little knowledge of sustainable farming methods.

Their tribal 'traditional' slash-and-burn' farming style and lack of know-how of modern farming cannot produce excess food even at the most minimum industrial levels anywhere in Africa.

These poor women barely produce enought to feed their own families at the best of times.

A decade ago, South Africa and Zimbabwe were the bread-baskets of southern Africa and also maintained lucrative export markets with luxury goods such as wines, tobacco, tea, coffee and a huge variety of tropical fruit products.

Zimbabwe's agricultural sector has now collapsed.

South Africa is set to follow in its footsteps if the present pace of poor food production is anything to go by.

LINK
http://www.afrol.com/articles/24311

Opposition parliamentation Pieter Groenewald of the Freedom Front said the minister's statement 'confirms' that she was dishonest when she made claims in the news media that the land-'restitution' process was being slowed down by legal challenges from farmers.

"When it suits the minister she loves to accuse farmers that they oppose land-claims. Now from her own mouth it is clear that she is misleading the public with her accusations."

"The Minister must stop blaming farmers for the administrative incompetence of her own department.

"She also likes to threaten land owners with land-claims to raise emotions in the community. Land owners want to speed up the land-reform process. The fact that not one of these 24,198 land-claims were opposed legally, proves that point.

link to original story:

http://www.landbou.co.za/LandbouWeekblad/Nuus...

Adriana Stuijt
Dokkum
Netherlands