Tucker has now un-said what he said:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2018/08/24/tucker-carlson-walks-back-bogus-south-africa-scaremongering/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.b04713de4123
I don't think so. You're starting to look at a state that fails to protect the rights of its people, a failing democracy, especially in light of economic decline that squeezes poorer populations and causes them to lobby for authoritarian action to secure themselves or externalize blame. Ethnic/racial divides are force multipliers for this, colonial ones even moreso. Democracy is very sensitive here, it has no strong base and can degenerate into one population looting another.
We apply this liberal skepticism to Trump, by the way, I don't see why we shouldn't apply the same standards to the left-nationalist ANC. Its government is corrupt, its society has an issue with violence, and its ideology is historically insufficiently committed to liberalism. While I understand the left is agitated by racial issues, this is not justice. It's a postcolonial humanitarian crisis and abuse of democracy. It shouldn't be framed as anything but.
Kulak-style expropriation is also unnecessary.
- White farmers’ ownership of agricultural ground declined from 85.1% in 1994 (82.5 million hectares) to 73.3% in December 2016, and altogether 5 million hectares of agricultural ground was bought by black people in this period, as well as 1.7 million hectares for purposes other than agriculture. In the same period, government purchased and redistributed only 2.1 million hectares of agricultural ground.
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“It’s interesting to see that emergent black farmers are buying land in the areas that they originate from. isiZulu speakers usually will not buy in the Eastern Cape and isiXhosa-speakers will not buy in Limpopo.”
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The effect of market forces was also surprising. In the 23-year period examined by the audit, R90.3bn has been spent on land that is now owned by black people.
Of this, government bought 2.8 million hectares, for which it paid R20.5bn. Large areas of this land are today underutilised or fallow.
“One wonders how much success government would have achieved had it simply made the R20.5bn available to prospective black farmers who want to buy land through a financial institution such as the Land Bank,” said Bornman.
https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/who-owns-sas-land-20171028
State corrective action is doomed to failure here. It's inefficient, nepotistic, and ideological. It perpetuates injustice and inequality because of its clumsy and violent nature, while also invaliding its claim to representing the whole of the population. State action does not create a self-governing class of small producers, which is the basis for the uplift of a community, the economy does.
The simple fact is this: capitalism is dispossessing, whether you are a native, a worker, a farmer, or an artisan. Its revolutionary history has not been kind to these classes of people, and tends to push them out and force them into new structures and economic arrangements. However, within those structures is a greater path to the middle class than what existed before thanks to greater development and prosperity.
If you let the market correct itself, it will. Artificial social divisions and hierarchies, like a legislated colonial caste system, don't last because the system is meritocratic.
you might want to check out the mirror sometime...
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12113561
Mr Steenkamp says Prime Minister Cyril Ramaphosa's plans of redistribution of white-owned land to South Africa's black poor is just a cover so that the government can get their hands on valuable coal deposits found under his farm land.
The 67-year-old farmer said he is ready to defend his property by force if the government tries to take his land, saying; "If it comes to a fight so be it, I am not going to leave the country and I am not going to leave my farm."
Thats OK, we can just shortern the term to BRIC instead of BRICS, they can recess instead
What does this have to do with 01271 being deranged?
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