re: South Africa seizing land from white people

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How? This has been going on for about 5 years now. The farm wokers are taking their native land back.
The first thing they did was run off all of the immigrants. Since guns are illegal there they used machetes and garden tools.

This is equivalent to Native Americans taking North and south America back

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For about the thousandth time in this thread, a very large chunk of that land was not theirs to begin with. Re-read some of the posts on here about Dutch, Bantu, English, Xhosa, refugee, and so forth migration within the continent. Much of the land was straight up empty (or very nearly so) or was legitimately traded for by European settlers. The Boers didn't have the numbers or power to straight up dominate local natives for the vast majority of the history of the country. It's something that Mandela, rightfully, eventually came to conclude was a bad idea for all sorts of reasons, not only including technical expertise but that a lot of white people in South Africa have as good or better historical claim to their land.

What has actually happened is that South Africa has taken a pretty bad turn for the worse in the last ten years, and the powers-that-be in the ANC, long-steeped in socialist and communist ideology, have turned festering anger of the masses against property owners. Tale as old as time.