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EFF - ‘Teaching Whites a Lesson’: Every Five Days a White Farmer
Is Killed in South Africa
By: Hawk Date: March 24, 2018, 2:03 pm
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SOURCE : FaithWire
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March 21, 2018
South African farming activists are outraged at the lack of
police action following a series of brutal attacks on white
farmers.
Many in the farming community are disturbed by a newly
introduced motion that rules land can be seized without any
financial recompense. Critics believe that the proposal to amend
Section 25 of the constitution has enabled disgruntled members
of the community to invade and steal farmland without fear of
legal consequences.
Civil rights organization AfriForum has alleged that there have
been 109 recorded attacks so far in 2018 and 15 farm murders,
which means that one white farmer has been killed every five
days this year. “Our rural areas are trapped in a crime war.
Although the South African government denies that a violence
crisis is staring rural areas in the face, the numbers prove
that excessive violence plague these areas,” said Ian Cameron,
AfriForum’s Head of Safety, as reported by Newsweek.
A 35-year-old farmer, Gabriel Stols, told the Independent that
his brother Kyle, 21, was shot dead by four people on a game
reserve near Bloemfontein. “What is happening to us is torture,
it is slaughter, it is brutal, it is revenge. The world doesn’t
know what is happening in South Africa,” he said.
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[quote] Ian Cameron @IanCameron23
FARM MURDER and RAPE: Ladybrand, FS. Farm manager (40) tied up
with wire, hands behind his back and repeatedly stabbed and
hacked to death by attackers. His wife was raped by attackers.
pic.twitter.com/iBRAlBSVMd
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[quote] Ian Cameron @IanCameron23
Victim was dragged 100m from where him and his wife were
initially attacked and was then hung from a wire by his feet
after which he was stabbed until he died. Suspects are thought
to be from Lesotho. pic.twitter.com/wCMf72Md2d
1:58 PM - Mar 20, 2018 [/quote]
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The policy was originally proposed by the leader of the far-left
Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), Julius Malema, who has insisted
that it is the right of black South Africans to take back the
land. In a speech delivered Wednesday, Malema said it was time
for the white farmers to leave. “They must leave the keys of the
tractors‚ because we want to work the land,” the controversial
figure declared, as reported by Times Live. “They must leave the
keys of the houses‚ because we want to stay in those houses.”
Mr Malema has previously described land seizures as “teaching
whites a lesson.”
“We must ensure that we restore the dignity of our people
without compensating the criminals who stole our land,” he said
in response to the motion passing by 241 votes to 83.
His fiery response was, in part, as a response to remarks made
by an Australian Home Affairs Minister, Peter Dutton, who has
offered to explore options for issuing visas to stricken
farmers.
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Dutton said that the oppressed farmers deserve “special
attention” and need help from a “civilized country” like
Australia. “If you look at the footage and read the stories, you
hear the accounts, it’s a horrific circumstance they face,” he
said, as reported by the Sydney Herald. “We have the potential
to help some of these people that are being persecuted.”
On Monday, Australia’s former Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, told
2GB Radio that there is “a very serious situation developing in
South Africa,” as reported by the Guardian. “Something like 400
white farmers have been murdered – brutally murdered over the
last 12 months,” he added.
Abbott continued: “Just imagine the reaction here in Australia
if a comparable number of farmers had been brutally murdered by
squatters intent on driving them off their land … we would say
this is a national crisis.”
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Many South Africans are fearful due to the striking similarity
of the situation to that of the brutal land reforms, murder and
persecution that has faced white farmers in Zimbabwe under
former president Robert Mugabe over the past couple of decades.
But the South African government insists that it is simply
rectifying the past via its accelerated land reform.
“There’s no need for anyone to be scared or to fear anything,”
government spokesman Ndivhuwo Mabaya told the BBC. “The land
redistribution programme will be done according to the law. We
want to say to our friends across the world that there’s no need
to panic.”
“We are engaged in a process of land redistribution which is
very important to address the imbalances of the past,” added a
spokesperson for the South African minister for International
Relations and Cooperation, Lindiwe Sisulu. “But it is going to
be done legally, and with due consideration of the economic
impact and impact on individuals.”
The South African Christian Democratic Party has spoken out
against Malema, claiming that his remarks contitute “hate
speech.”
“Land distribution is something that our party agrees with, as
we agree that injustices were made in the past and many people
lost their land,” Reverend Kenneth Meshoe, the president of the
African Christian Democratic Party, told The Independent.
“Where we disagree is when the EFF and the ANC want to
expropriate land without compensation and the EFF’s talk of
taking land from the whites. People like Malema who are
promoting hate speech should not be allowed.”
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