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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

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.

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Posted by crazy4lsu

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Posted on 3/1/18 at 5:27 pm to AbuTheMonkey

The Khoisan peoples, if I remember rightly, would have historical claim, if the descendants of the Zulu tribes are arguing being there first gives them a right to the land.

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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, has turned festering anger of the masses against property owners. Tale as old as time.

Well this is only a resolution that has passed in the lower house and the resolution still has to pass the upper house. An article I linked earlier shows that lots of land is actually already in government control, and they are hesitant to sell it, preferring to rent it out to tenants. According to one study, 45% of the land with high agricultural potential is already in the hands of historically disadvantaged people. I'm hopeful that the ANC will see the writing on the wall with regards to what land expropriation without compensation will do to foreign investment, as they are more and more reliant on the CCP.

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Posted by CptBengal

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Posted on 3/1/18 at 6:02 pm to AbuTheMonkey