BY KRISTA MAHR ON 6/21/18 AT 2:37 PM
It’s just after 8 on a crisp morning outside Besters, a farming village in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province, and Mhle Msimanga is wading through his herd of cattle in a wire pen, calling out directions to his sons and nephews standing outside it. “The cows can’t get out if you’re all crowded at the gate!” the 48-year-old farmer yells, speaking the local isiZulu language. The boys move aside, and a few cattle trot out, meandering onto a dirt road that leads toward the low-slung mountains that spread out behind Msimanga’s property.It wasn’t always his land. In 2005, the post-apartheid South African government bought about 1,112 acres from his former boss—a white farmer—and transferred the title deed to Msimanga and his fellow workers. It was part of a larger transaction in Besters that year: The government acquired over 34,590 acres from white South African farmers and transferred the ownership to nearly 200 black South African families, who, like Msimanga, had lived and worked on the land for years.The deal changed Msimanga’s life and rewrote the future of his children. In 1991, he went from earning roughly $18 a month on this land to owning it, as well as a large herd of cattle. “There is no money in being a worker,” he says. “It’s only now I see money for all the work I put in.”
‘Wake Up, My Friend. Our People Want The Land’
Land Ownership was supposed to be the reality for hundreds of thousands of black South Africans by now. But 24 years after the nation’s first free elections, the country is still struggling to correct the gross injustices of colonialism and apartheid, the system of white minority rule and racial segregation.European colonizers arrived at the southern tip of the continent in the 17th century and for the next 200 years drove Africans off their homeland. A policy in 1913 allowed the white-run government to further strip away black-owned property. Those policies continued under apartheid, which began in 1948 and ended with the multiracial vote on April 27, 1994.But the stark reality is that inequality remains. Black South Africans, who make up 80 percent of the population, own just 4 percent of the nation’s agricultural land, according to the government. The nation’s white minority owns 72 percent.
The architects of South Africa’s transition to democracy in the 1990s envisioned a much different outcome: The post-apartheid constitution says the government must help citizens get better access to land. The African National Congress, which has been in power since 1994, now wants to transfer 30 percent of the country’s agricultural land from white to black ownership. In addition to buying it from white owners and redistributing to black ones, the ANC runs programs to help people claim territory and firm up the rights of those whose tenure is insecure.
But apartheid’s legacy has been difficult to dislodge, and many think land reform has been a disaster. To date, only 9 percent of commercial farmland has been transferred to black owners through claims and redistribution. The backlog to settle existing claims is 35 years; for new ones, there’s a wait of well over a century. Many large agricultural reform projects have failed; success stories like Msimanga’s are the exception. “You can move as many hectares of land as you want, but if you don’t get them to be productive, then society’s problems will remain,” says Wandile Sihlobo, an agricultural economist for South Africa’s Agricultural Business Chamber.The slow pace of change has made land one of the most polarizing issues in South Africa today. With national elections looming in 2019, the small but influential Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) opposition group has tapped into popular frustration over the ANC’s failure to address the problem. The party has been pushing the government to seize white-owned property without paying landowners, as former President Robert Mugabe did in Zimbabwe, which borders South Africa to the north. Critics of Mugabe’s policy point to the period of economic collapse that followed: Food production dropped, due in part to a lack of equipment and training, and unemployment soared as thousands of evicted white Zimbabwean employers left the country.
The ANC, whose popularity plummeted under the controversial tenure of former President Jacob Zuma, declared in December it would use “land expropriation without compensation,” as the process is known, to speed up reform. The party promised to do it without compromising the economy, food security or jobs. President Cyril Ramaphosa, who replaced Zuma this year, has repeatedly said the taking of land from the indigenous people was South Africa’s “original sin,” and that its return to its rightful owners will unlock the country’s economic potential.In February, Parliament overwhelmingly voted in favor of a resolution to pursue the expropriation policy and appointed a committee to investigate whether the constitution needs to be amended to do it. The committee is due to report back on its findings later this year, before the 2019 elections.Unsurprisingly, the prospect of state-sanctioned land seizures has spooked white landowners in South Africa. Media coverage of “land invasions” has increased across the country, where black South Africans have moved onto unused, privately owned property and claimed the right to live there. “Once it becomes a free-for-all, how are you going to stop millions of people from lawlessness?” says Louise Rossouw, former regional chairperson of the Transvaal Agricultural Union of South Africa in Eastern Cape province. “It’s crazy. People are already starting to talk of civil war. ”The ANC has tried to stamp out fears that South Africa’s economy is going to crash like Zimbabwe’s. It has emphasized that unused land would be targeted first, but party leaders have also doubled down on their original pledge. “For people who think that the issue of land in South Africa will be swept under the carpet, I say, ‘Wake up, my friend,’” Ramaphosa recently said in Parliament. “Our people want the land.”
‘We Haven’t Been Able to Recover’
Msimanga’s homestead in Besters sits off an unpaved road. His property includes five modest buildings, homes to a dozen members of his extended family. Sitting in his living room, on a couch covered in plastic, Msimanga looks slightly ill at ease in his ripped jeans and dusty work boots, as if he’d rather get back to his cattle. Above his head, an embroidered mat hanging from the ceiling reads, “All I Have Is a Gift From God.”He says he supports the government’s revived commitment to make more black South Africans landowners. In the country’s bleak job market—about 30 percent of black South Africans are unemployed, compared with 7 percent of whites—farming would provide more security for his kids than sending them to university. “I can spend my money investing in the land that will help my children and their children,” he says. “This is what a black man can do with this opportunity.”But the land reform project that Msimanga and his family took part in 13 years ago was different from the seizures being debated today. Back then, after several farmworkers lodged claims in the area, all the parties—20 white landowners and 199 black households—reached an agreement to transfer ownership of more than 20 percent of the land in Besters. The government bought that property from the white farmers at market value—some 14 million rand, or $2.5 million at the time. Nearly 80 percent of the area remained under white landownership, and it still does today. The deal also provided government funds to help the new farmers get started. Msimanga, for instance, received a few dozen cows to go with the one he already owned, which have grown into a herd of 380.Not all the black workers involved in the deal have fared so well. A few miles away, on a collectively controlled farm, one of the owners explains that a lot of their cows died in a drought a few years back. “We haven’t been able to recover,” says Jabulani Mavimbela. The business is “progressing,” he adds. “I can’t say I’m totally satisfied, but it’s progressing.”
To supplement his income, Mavimbela still works on the sprawling farm of Roland Henderson, a white farmer in Besters. Standing in the living room of his large stone-walled farmhouse, Henderson points to a portrait of his great-great-grandfather hanging on the wall. His family has owned land here for five generations, and Henderson continues the family business. In 2003, he became one of the main negotiators of the land transfer on the landowners’ side.Henderson, the chairman of the Besters Farmers Association when black farmworkers made land claims in the area, says the white farmers knew they “needed to do something.”
Let Me jump in here right quick and insert this CRITICAL POINT that too many of Us as Black-People miss out on!
When this White-Farmer named Henderson says "the White-Farmers knew They 'needed to do something'".
Understand that what He is talking about is not in regards to MORALITY.
He is speaking about doing something FROM A POLITICAL-STANDPOINT.
He is speaking strictly out of concern FOR HIMSELF AND THE WHITES THERE.
This is the Difference in being a part of a Group, Whites, in Power and Having Power.
Versus being a part of a Group, Blacks, NOT in Power and NOT HAVING HAD POWER FOR CENTURIES!
It is literal rust.
From Lack of Control Over Our Lives and Self-Governance.
That allows for easy to see-obvious statements like White-Farmer Henderson's to be taken as some sort of moral-decision on His Part for the Betterment of Black-White Relations, no.
Stop It.
It is a typical decision made on the Regular to do what is IN ONE'S BEST INTEREST RIGHT NOW BEFORE THE PROBLEM GETS LARGER OR WORSE!
And that is ALLLLLLLLLLLL this White-Farmer was doing.
So do not misconstrue anything.
Do not confuse or read anything deep of good intent behind that statement.
That is All, back to the Article;
Since this was one of the country’s early large land transfers, the two parties had to figure it out as they went along. The association and the farmworkers had a series of long discussions about how the transfer should take place, and they jointly formed a company that applied for and received government funding earmarked for these kinds of transactions. “It was right after independence, and there was baggage,” he says. “We essentially learned to trust each other. There’s nothing more important than that.”
So here We have a situation where a White-Farmer who has lived off of Black-Labor, who do You think was working His Farm and We Know that the Black-Farmer IN THIS ARTICLE STILL HAS TO DO AT LEAST PART-TIME WORK FOR HIM.
This White-Farmer is talking about how Important Trust Is when His Family has literally for OVER 100-YEARS OWNED STOLEN LAND AND PROFITED WHILE BLACKS COULDN'T GET BASIC NECESSITIES.
Let that sink in and STAY THERE FOR A MINUTE!
Let Me Remind You. That Whites were diverting money, manpower and whatever else to ENSURING. That Whites prospered throughout that 100+-years I just highlighted for White-Farmer Henderson.
Again.
Let that sink in.
So now that the Free-Ride is Over.
Now it's Black-People need to Earn Our Way.
Really?
Meanwhile?
Who do You think the Cheap Free Labor was for those 100+-Years of Work On White-Farmer Henderson's Family-Farm!?
Who do You think this White-Farmer's Family was able to con and cajole and make feel special because They gave the Black-Labor some blankets or extra money or some fine food. This is the bullshit that Whites do as They are murdering and oppressing and getting over ON US GLOBALLY. Where it is the same bullshit-pattern as here in Nazi-America. Whites claiming They "treated Their Slaves well". Along with bullshit lines of today like "We're all just a little bit racist". as if Black-People enslaved Whites.
I am fully-aware where this bullshit comes from within Us. It stems for while White-Farmer Henderson and His Family had 100+ Years of Family-Success and Wealth and Opportunities. Mavimbela's Black-Family was going through what exactly again?
Most of Them were Exploiting and Making Money Off of Mavimbela's Family and then CLAIMING HOW SUPERIOR THEY WERE.
Where access to Education?
No.
Access to New Technologies, Techniques in Science and Medicine and Agriculture?
No.
And by the Way who was doing that again.
Whites.
Not just in South Africa.
Not just in Rhodesia.
Not just in Nazi-America.
Not just in Brazil.
Anywhere and everywhere.
Intentionally dumbing down and depriving Us as a collective race of anything and everything that is needed for a race to be able to function properly both internally and externally.
Yet Whites are claiming They had nothing to do with nothing and don't owe anything to any of Us anywhere for anything.
I will type this again.
That is not Their Fault.
It is Ours for Allowing Them to not only Believe this but also Get Away with It.
When We continue to send Our Sons to play a sport, that is Our Fault.
When We Allow for Our Taxes to go into yet another White-Interest Foreign Scheme, that is Our Fault.
When We Allow Illegal-Immigration, that is Our Fault.
When We Refuse to Network Among Ourselves, that is Our Fault.
When We Refuse to Address the Fact that We Need to Divest and Seriously Amend many of the White-Forced Things that We Do, like being Catholics.
Christians.
Feminist.
Communist.
Libertarian.
Atheist.
Capitalist.
Republican.
Democrat.
Conservative.
Liberal.
American.
Spanish.
Latino.
MUSLIM.
ASIATIC.
MGTOW.
INDIVIDUALISTS.
But then no time nor effort to be;
BLACK-FIRST.
That is Our.
Fault.
Because We know what We're Supposed to Be Doing.
And whenever throughout history a White-Person anywhere has ever used the words trust and fairness it has always been proven that neither or these words will play a factor in what said White-Person/s are about to do to Us as Blacks or anybody else for that matter.
Including other White-People.
That is Our Fault.
And We have to Accept Reality.
And Move On from trying to give credibility to those who have a proven track record of non-credibility.
Now...?
Back to the Article;
It’s no wonder, then, that Mavimbela says he and other farmworkers were skeptical when the proposal for the transfer first came up. “We didn’t take it seriously,” he says. “What if we left our jobs, and the government didn’t give us land?” Years later, he doesn’t think the plan went perfectly, but one of his daughters has recently graduated from university. “I wouldn’t have been able to send her as a farmworker.”
And just like I typed before.
Having been on the Bottom for so long.
Simple EVERYDAY THINGS, NORMAL THINGS ARE A BIG DEAL.
Thus the same way We see here in Nazi-America.
Black-Americans FIXATED ON VOTING.
No Political Party to Vote For.
No Self-Created Political Party to Vote For.
No Agenda for Black-American Political-Needs.
Just, GO VOTE!
That is exactly what I was typing about before and it is why I will keep on typing that this is a giant game of CHECKERS.
Not Chess.
Where much of what WE BELIEVE ARE CHESS MOVES.
Comes from the Fact that WE HAVE BEEN DEPRIVED OF SELF-GOVERNANCE FOR CENTURIES AND ARE COMPLETELY DIM-WITTED AND RELEARNING NOW.
Which is dangerous, it is a dangerous time-period when a People are trying to RELEARN THE BASICS.
But the Very Same People who REDUCED THEM TO THE SHELL THEY ARE, ARE STILL RIGHT THERE ON TOP OF THEM!
South Africa is now the most unequal society in the world, according to the World Bank. And the inequality has worsened under democracy. More than half the population lives below the national poverty line. The shortage of housing in big cities like Cape Town and Johannesburg is severe, with many people waiting for public housing and stuck in informal settlements without access to regular water and electricity. Public schools and health clinics are understaffed, and unemployment is dire.The ANC’s failure to deliver on the promises made during the freedom struggle that Nelson Mandela helped lead—including equality and the rights to work, land and housing—has sent the party into political crisis. The EFF, headed by the charismatic and controversial young politician Julius Malema, has made the government’s slow progress on land reform one of its prime targets. “When we say to the people of South Africa ‘Occupy the land,’ we don’t say do an illegal thing,” Malema said in a speech in April. “It is the right thing to do, because it is your land.”Though the ANC has always supported land reform, Malema’s militant rhetoric—along with the ANC’s falling support among voters—has pushed the party into embracing the controversial policy of expropriation without compensation.As a result, in agricultural towns, white landowners are waiting to see what happens next. In the Eastern Cape, some have stopped investing in the infrastructure around their farms, like roads, fences and dams, says the Transvaal Agricultural Union’s Rossouw. “If you have farmed as long as I have, it’s unmistakable what is going on,” she says. “Nobody knows what to do.”
The Above Situation happened because the White-South Africans were ALLOWED TO KEEP ALL OF THEIR ILL-GOTTEN GAINS!
Their Coffers WERE NOT LOOTED AS PUNISHMENT FOR THEIR CRIMES, and so?
You get what You have now, because remember this.
When everything was Whites-only, remember.
The Welfare and Conditions of the Black-Population of South Africa DID NOT MATTER AND WAS NOT COUNTED AGAINST SOUTH AFRICA'S STANDARDS OF LIVING OR ANYTHING ELSE!
Thus the Reason why One is Never Supposed to keep playing Games with a Crooked Con-Artist who created the Game They were just cheating You At.
So World Bank and whomever else could give two-fucks that Blacks didn't have running water. The Power-Grid DID NOT INCLUDE THEM. Thus, no electricity in too many areas. Shanty-Towns here there and everywhere. NO SEWAGE SYSTEMS, basics were not even being met and when They were there They were barely maintained.
Yet, as Usual, Whites now claiming "how things should go". Where Their Main-Concern is the Fact that THEY KNOW THE STANDARD POLICIES OF REGIME CHANGES.
The Losers and Depowered DON'T GET TO KEEP NICE HOUSES AND FINE THINGS AND WEALTH AND LAND AND MONEY AND ACCESS TO CAPITAL!
So understand that this is further proof of the Fact that White-countries are supporting and propping up keeping these things firmly in the hands of the Whites in South Africa. Through threats of economic-sanctions and such when the Reality is South Africa has actual resources. So how should any of that work?
Because the System of National-Stability was created and currently run by Whites. Add to this that the Black South African Population was intentionally deprived of education and opportunities to HONESTLY CONTROL THEIR LIVES AND THEIR ENVIRONMENT.
Which means self-govern.
So We're looking at a Lack of Expertise.
And hold it....
Hold It.
Look at How Long this Post MUST BE.
For Me to even BEGIN TO BE HONEST ABOUT ASSESSING THIS ARTICLE AND OUR SITUATION.
Yet Here in Nazi-America.
You have Black-People screaming go Vote.
Yet most can't even correctly breakdown Our Situation and then EXPLAIN WHY WE THEN MUST CHANGE OUR BEHAVIOR AND WHY WE MUST DO SO, like I've highlighted in this post.
Voting?
Is a serious issue.
But it is, as Professor Blacktruth CORRECTLY POINTED OUT!
The End Result.
Of the Political Process.
I'm gonna stop here.
Yes.
I'm done with this Post.
There is more than enough within it already anyway....
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