Pro3,164 posts
17 Feb 2018, 05:57
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17 Feb 2018, 05:57#1
All sounded reasonable by CR until this issue was addressed.
I come from a family of farming folk and this is totally unacceptable...it is based on total misrepresentation of facts.
My family bought their farms way back and worked hard, providing beef, mutton, wool, maize and vegetables for the market...provided employment and treated their farm workers well and with respect providing clean well kept accommodation and medical facilities, food , livestock and chickens for them.
Land grabbing has it's roots in Bolshevism in Tsar's Russia...started by them and later USSR communism and spread to other countries such as Cuba, China and lastly to a country I loved, Ian Smith's beautiful Rhodesia.
It's obnoxious because all it is, is theft...looting is a better word but pure theft.
If we weren't so blind and hypocritical we would see this...afterall what of the USA and the annihilation and robbery of land of American Indigenous People (Red Indians) that not only were decimated virtually completely and put in reservations and destroyed by alcoholism. Yeah and Australia too. And yeah ancient Europe...it all starts somewhere even in the ancient days.
Admittedly nothing can now be done about the past but this type of ridiculous and unworkable solution is immoral to those who EARNED it.
Cyril himself had a farm in the midlands, I was told...on the upper Umgeni River ...a brown trout stream ...his water being leased out to my club "The Natal Fly Fishing Club".
You city bums and slickers know absolutely zero about farming and it's people.
They will not take this...they are tough and purpose driven people...extremely proud and brave...both English and Afrikaaners. Sadly if done without compensation, it will lead to huge conflict and most likely in some cases bloodshed...civil war.