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So now, with elections looming next year, the ruling African National Congress (ANC) party has decided to take more drastic action: amending the constitution to make it legal for the government to seize land withoutproviding compensation.

That move is being welcomed by many in the country, but not everyone is convinced it’s a good idea. Some, including investors, worry that it could trigger a catastrophic economic crisis like the one that occurred in neighboring Zimbabwe when it enacted similar reforms in 2000. There, rapid land seizures panicked investors, causing them to flee the market in droves. That led to massive hyperinflation and food shortages that effectively collapsed the country’s economy: Experts put the cost to Zimbabwe’s economy at around $20 billion.

But another group of people — including white nationalists, neo-Nazis, and members of the alt-right in Europe and the United States — see the South African land expropriation plan as much more than a potential economic misstep: to them, it’s a full-scale genocide against the country’s white minority.

Yea, that's more than a little disingenuous.

"Investors" fled because they knew that the country was becoming an unstable shithole, and the people replacing the white farmers had not the first fricking clue as to what they were actually doing. Remember, you're talking about a country - Zimbabwe - that went from one of the world's great agricultural exporters to a place with a third of the people starving in the span of a generation. Let's chalk that up a little more than "investors panicking".

And what happened in Zimbabwe wasn't genocide, but it was ethnic pushing and intimidation that was disastrous for everyone involved. Now you have a faction of the South African government spouting the same nonsense that Mugabe and his henchmen were spouting thirty years ago. You don't think that should raising some alarms?