{"id":256186,"date":"2018-02-22T12:05:50","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T17:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=256186"},"modified":"2021-04-15T19:56:13","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T23:56:13","slug":"new-south-african-president-wants-to-seize-land-from-white-farmers-without-compensation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/bg\/new-south-african-president-wants-to-seize-land-from-white-farmers-without-compensation\/","title":{"rendered":"New South African president wants to seize land from white farmers without compensation"},"content":{"rendered":"

RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

And he is absolutely right! What was stolen by armed colonizers must be returned to Africa native people without any compensation. On the contrary, the wealth of the families of these white people should be seized as compensation for centuries of pillages!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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South Africa\u2019s new president, Cyril Ramaphosa, has pledged to return the lands owned by white farmers since the 1600s to the black citizens of the country.<\/p>\n

The government plans to accelerate land redistribution through expropriation without compensation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe expropriation of land without compensation is envisaged as one of the measures that we will use to accelerate the redistribution of land to black South Africans,\u201d said Ramaphosa, who was sworn into office to succeed Jacob Zuma as president last week.<\/p>\n

The millionaire ex-businessman Ramaphosa promised that land expropriation operations will not be a \u201csmash and grab\u201d exercise and promised to handle the matter properly, adding that people \u201cmust see this process as an opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNo-one is saying that land must be taken away from our people,\u201d he said, \u201cRather, it is how we can make sure that our people have equitable access to land and security of tenure. We must see this process of accelerated land redistribution as an opportunity and not as a threat,\u201d he added during a speech to parliament on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Such a drastic move would not damage the country\u2019s agriculture or economy, the South African president promised.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will handle it with responsibility. We will handle it in a way that will not damage our economy, that is not going to damage agricultural production,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

More than two decades after the end of apartheid in the 1990s, the ruling African National Congress (ANC) party is under pressure to tackle racial disparities in land ownership in South Africa. The country is home to over 50 million people, with whites owning most of the land.<\/p>\n

According to a recent study, black South Africans constitute 79 percent of the population, but directly own only 1.2 percent of the country\u2019s rural land. Meanwhile, white South Africans, who constitute 9 percent of the country\u2019s population, directly own 23.6 percent of its rural land, and 11.4 percent of land in towns and cities, according to the Land Audit report.<\/p>\n

A similar program of land redistribution was carried out by then-Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Thousands of white farmers were forced from their lands.<\/p>\n

However, food production plummeted without the experienced farmers\u2019 contribution, and Zimbabwe\u2019s economy suffered massively. In 2010, the Guardian reported that Mugabe used land reform to reward his allies rather than ordinary black Zimbabweans. In 2016, Mugabe signed a decree that foreign companies would face closure unless they sold or gave up 51 percent of their shares.<\/p>\n

Speaking about the redistribution of land in his country, Ramaphosa said that\u00a0\u201cin dealing with this complex matter\u201d\u00a0South Africa would not\u00a0\u201cmake the mistakes that others have made.\u201d<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.rt.com\/business\/419543-south-africa-land-compensation-whites\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: And he is absolutely right! What was stolen by armed colonizers must be returned to Africa native people without any compensation. On the contrary, the wealth of the families of these white people should be seized as compensation for centuries of pillages!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":327528,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}