Re: Trying to dig out peoples' race from their origins is exactly what Hitler did -- and you are trying to emulate him -- and also the ANC.
Here's some grist to your mill:
Posted on Wed, Oct. 26, 2005
Under pressure, South Africa expropriating white-owned farm
By Shashank Bengali
Knight Ridder Newspapers
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"The biggest problem has been that farmers have been negotiating with the government in bad faith," said Lucas Mufamabi, an activist with the Alliance of Land and Agrarian Reform Movements.
The expropriation order "is a precedent-setting kind of case that we hope will encourage other farmers to negotiate in the true sense of the word," Mufamabi said.
Visser, a broad-shouldered, silver-haired man of 47, said he wasn't opposed to selling his farm or to the idea of land restitution. But he plans to appeal the expropriation because he thinks the government's offer on his property is too low.
His family bought the farm 160 miles west of Johannesburg in 1968, but the dry climate and swirling dust storms in the arid North West province were inhospitable to crops. Visser, who has a master's degree in animal husbandry, took over the farm in 1992 and started a meat-processing business.
"This farm was the reason I studied agriculture," he said. "It was always going to be mine."
He built a two-story house, which he shares with his wife and five teenage children, and a modest slaughterhouse. The government has offered $269,000, based on the recommendation of an independent appraiser, but Visser wants at least $462,000 as compensation for improvements he's made.
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realcities.com
Now, I grant you that SA's land redistribution scheme smacks of Nazi Germany's Aryanization program from 1933 on, when tens of thousands of Jewish shopkeepers and businessmen were compelled to bequeath their assets to Aryan individuals/companies... There is, however, a big difference: Jews in 1930s Germany were not offered the luxury of quibbling with Nazi officials over the fair price of their businesses. If, as you put it, the ANC government and Zimbabwe's Mugabe were indeed "emulating" the Nazis, fussposts such as Mr Visser would be unceremoniously dumped into some concentration camp or over the high seas... to feed white sharks. BTW, here's my current read:
The Third Reich in Power, 1933-1939 (Hardcover)
by Richard J. Evans
amazon.com |
