{"id":254698,"date":"2018-07-09T16:55:04","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T20:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=254698"},"modified":"2021-04-22T17:48:14","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T21:48:14","slug":"a-matter-of-life-death-15000-white-south-african-farmers-seek-refuge-in-russia-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/a-matter-of-life-death-15000-white-south-african-farmers-seek-refuge-in-russia-report-says\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A matter of life & death\u2019: 15,000 white South African farmers seek refuge in Russia, report says"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Wonderful! And at least in Russia, they will be invited\u2026 contrarily to their ancestors who were NOT invited in Africa\u2026 All European descendants of colonizers should be expelled to Europe and their belonging seized without any compensation\u2026 and that includes Israeli \u2026\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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A delegation of 30 South African farming families has arrived in Russia\u2019s farmbelt Stavropol Region, Rossiya 1 TV reports. The group says it is facing violent attacks and death threats at home.<\/p>\n

Up to 15,000 Boers, descendants of Dutch settlers in South Africa, are planning to move to Russia amid rising violence stemming from government plans to expropriate their land, according to the delegation.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a matter of life and death \u2013 there are attacks on us. It\u2019s got to the point where the politicians are stirring up a wave of violence,\u201d\u00a0Adi Slebus told the media.\u00a0\u201cThe climate here [Stavropol Region] is temperate, and this land is created by God for farming. All this is very attractive.\u201d<\/p>\n

The new South African government, led by President Cyril Ramaphosa, has pledged to return the lands owned by white farmers since the 1600s to the black citizens of the country. The government said it is planning to put an end to what it calls the legacy of apartheid, where most of South Africa\u2019s land is still in the hands of its minority white population.<\/p>\n

Rights groups have said the initiative incites violence. There were 74 farm murders and 638 attacks, primarily against white farmers, in 2016-17 in South Africa, according to data by minority rights group AfriForum.<\/p>\n

The farmers are prepared to make a contribution to Russia\u2019s booming agricultural sector, according to Rossiya 1. Each family is ready to bring up to $100,000 for leasing the land.<\/p>\n

Russia has 43 million hectares of unused farmland, and has recently begun giving out free land to Russian citizens to cultivate farming. The land giveaway program, which began in 2014, has been a huge success.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.rt.com\/business\/432375-russia-south-africa-farmers\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: Wonderful! And at least in Russia, they will be invited\u2026 contrarily to their ancestors who were NOT invited in Africa\u2026 All European descendants of colonizers should be expelled to Europe and their belonging seized without any compensation\u2026 and that includes Israeli \u2026\u00a0  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":328720,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}