White Farmers in South Africa
So Iâm listening to South African artist Sjavaâs interview with Hot 97. The conversation shifts to white farmers in South Africa and I peep a comment that reads: â7% of the population owning 70%+ of the land, something has to be doneï»ż.â
*quickly pauses the interview*
Not that I felt they were lying, but I had to look that shit up. I found this:
The national spokesman of a key South African opposition party has said redistributing land from white farmers without compensation is justified because âit is not really their landâ. Mbuyiseni Ndlozi told The Independent that white farmers descended from Dutch and English colonial invaders âhave taken [the land] through a violent crime against humanityâ.
Mr Ndlozi is one of the most senior officials in the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party, which put forward a successful motion last month calling on the government to consider amending South Africaâs constitution, to make clear that it is within the authoritiesâ power to redistribute property on racial grounds.
Mr Ndlozi is one of the most senior officials in the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party, which put forward a successful motion last month calling on the government to consider amending South Africaâs constitution, to make clear that it is within the authoritiesâ power to redistribute property on racial grounds.
There have been concerns among South Africaâs white minority that the motion will encourage attacks on farmers, and the EFFâs leader Julius Malema has previously been convicted of hate speech for singing anti-white songs like âShoot the Boer [Farmer]â.
Many South Africans nonetheless agree that some land distribution is needed as the country continues to recover from the horrors of apartheid and colonial rule. White people officially occupy 23.6% of farmland in the country â a figure which rises to 73% when land owned through private enterprises is taken into account â compared to 1.2% owned by black South Africans.
âIn this process, white people ought to accept the crime of apartheid and colonisation and how these crimes impacted on black people,â Mr Ndlozi said. Whites could âshow remorse by ceding land they inherited through anti-black racist dispossession,â he suggested, adding: âJustice leads to reconciliation.â
Ainât that some shit⊠Thereâs also videos (like this) of white farmers in South Africa stating that theyâre living in fear because theyâre scared of having the land that their people stole being taken back by the native people of that country, which their people invaded and colonized⊠I justâŠđ
That white entitlement I tell yaâŠ