Communists Engineering Famine In SA
CAPE TOWN –Land 'Reform" minister Gugile Nkwinti warned this week that ninety percent of the 5.9-million hectares of 'redistributed' farms, alienated from skilled white commercial farmers, now do not produce any excess food at all. [ ... and you thought "we are all equal"] Yet while talking tough with 'use it or lose it' threats, the ANC-cabinet minister also announced that another R461-million will be spent to prop up these insufficient farmers for yet another year – hoping that they then magically start producing more food.
Land "Reform" Minister Nkwinti moaned at a media briefing yestreday said that despite the State having spent 'many billions' -- the government "would not meet its target of turning over 30 percent of arable land to the black majority by 2014 -- as it simply did not have the R72-million needed to achieve this."
This is a very misleading statement : South Africa's very arid landscape has only ever allowed six percent of its entire surface to be used for food-cropping : what the South African State has already done is to confiscate as much privately-owned farmland as possible. Less than one percent of the entire land-surface now is being food-cropped because of this massive Stalinist-style farm-land destruction programme.
The SA State has already spent 'many billions' to buy up 5.9-million hectares of commercial farmland for 'redistribution' to black residents – who just as was done in the Stalinist land-confiscation programmes, also had never farmed before. And now this minister bemoans the fact that a full 90% of these farms have already failed within just two seasons of being taken over by dismally incompetent people who have no knowledge nor interest in the complicated process of farming in the semi-arid South African landscape.
As Philip du Toit said in his book, "The Great South African Land Scandal" :
"The Marxist, racist ANC regime is engineering famine in South Africa. It commits systematic genocide against white farmers to steal their land. Absolute power flows not only from the barrel of a gun, but also from the hand which holds the food. Stalin starved 11-million Ukrainians in 1933; Cambodian dictator Pol Pot 2-million in 1975. Mugabe in 2000 ... and is SA next ?"
So what does Nkwinto plan to do about these 5.3-million hectares of destroyed farmland and indeed what about all those millions of poor black people who can now lay claim to this land? He said at the media briefing yesterday that he wants to 'improve the current output of the land which was already distributed'.
He talks tough – warning that "if people don't use this land for agricultural output they will have to get off it"- and that the "use it or lose it principle" will be firmly applied to redistributed farmland to ensure that South Africa's agricultural output does not decline further." However his tough talk is just talk : it will never happen that the regime would forcibly remove those millions of black people from State-owned farms they'd already been given settlement rights to. It would sit very poorly with the voters.
The overwhelming support which was received at the last ANC-conference in Polokwane/Pietersburg for its troika-partner - the SA Communist Party proposal to alienate all the private-held properties in south Africa - including all its private homes in the cities; the mines; all the farmland and the private game reserves and all the businesses, was definitely a wake-up call for the rulng ANC-leadership. Throwing millions of unproductive 'new black farmers' off the State-owned land simply will never happen.
So his tough talk to throw unproductive black farmers off the State-owned farms did make the headlines – but well hidden inside the story remains the fact that he is still throwing even more taxpayers' funds at keeping those very same unproductive black farmers on the land : budgeting another R254-million 'which will "flow towards 200 black farmers in distress" as he put it -- and also getting capital-financing for an extra R207-million to help 'struggling" black farmers pay off their (State-owned) Land Bank loans.
Whether he will even succeed in removing these by now millions of "new farmers' who were granted permission to settle on these 5.9million hectares of State-owned farm land -- is actually a moot point. The ANC-regime will never embark on such a course. The issue of private land-ownership has always been the mainstay of ANC propaganda : they get votes from the black electorate because of their constant stream of promises that they will take away all the viable farmland from Afrikaner farmers (even though the Afrikaners produce all of the country's staple-foods) to hand it over to black communities. thus Mr Du Toit's claim that the ANC is 'engineering famine' in South Africa' also is entirely accurate. That's the result of their policies.
Less than ONE PERCENT of the entire South African land-surface now is still used for food-cropping at all : the ANC's land-'reform' policy clearly is a dismal failure ... as any bush-pilot who flies over this dismal landscape will be able to tell you...Now the country 's more than 50-million residents have to be fed for the most part by staple-food imported from off-continent – mostly from South America.
Of course Nkwinti uses a lot of ANC-doublespeak which can be interpreted in many different ways – and as all ANC-government statements this one also is deliberately complicated. For instance he says he is not going to apply the 'use it or lose it' principle to those black residents who were given land in the so-named 'reconstitution' process. And that's different from the 'redistribution' process.
The latter group – who were given perfectly good white-owned farms and proceed to destroy them in short order as the Minister has just pointed out – are the ones he is talking about. So who are these people who received 'reconstituted farms"? He didn't say – and the journalists present at his media briefing didn't ask. Perhaps they are familiar with the ANC-codespeak. Perhaps they didn't dare ask any intelligent questions.
What is clear however is that this ANC-cabinet minister basically was admitting that ninety percent of all these so-named 'redistributed' farms had failed. And it gets even worse each year : he also revealed that "last year more than half the farms bought by the government as part of its land redistribution for agricultural development programme had failed or fallen into decline."
In other words – it took these 'new farmers' just two harvest seasons to destroy their farms' ability to produce any excess food. Yet the white commercial farmers who had been forced to sell the land were producing so much excess food on those very same farms that SA – right up to 2002 – still was the largest food-exporter on the entire African continent, and also had more than enough affordable, excess food for local consumption. Now, South Africa has to import more than 60% of ALL its staple-food needs, ordering massive supplies from South American countries.
Source : http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.com/2010/03/53-m-hectares-of-black-run-farms-90-are.html
CAPE TOWN –Land 'Reform" minister Gugile Nkwinti warned this week that ninety percent of the 5.9-million hectares of 'redistributed' farms, alienated from skilled white commercial farmers, now do not produce any excess food at all. [ ... and you thought "we are all equal"] Yet while talking tough with 'use it or lose it' threats, the ANC-cabinet minister also announced that another R461-million will be spent to prop up these insufficient farmers for yet another year – hoping that they then magically start producing more food.
Land "Reform" Minister Nkwinti moaned at a media briefing yestreday said that despite the State having spent 'many billions' -- the government "would not meet its target of turning over 30 percent of arable land to the black majority by 2014 -- as it simply did not have the R72-million needed to achieve this."
This is a very misleading statement : South Africa's very arid landscape has only ever allowed six percent of its entire surface to be used for food-cropping : what the South African State has already done is to confiscate as much privately-owned farmland as possible. Less than one percent of the entire land-surface now is being food-cropped because of this massive Stalinist-style farm-land destruction programme.
The SA State has already spent 'many billions' to buy up 5.9-million hectares of commercial farmland for 'redistribution' to black residents – who just as was done in the Stalinist land-confiscation programmes, also had never farmed before. And now this minister bemoans the fact that a full 90% of these farms have already failed within just two seasons of being taken over by dismally incompetent people who have no knowledge nor interest in the complicated process of farming in the semi-arid South African landscape.
As Philip du Toit said in his book, "The Great South African Land Scandal" :
"The Marxist, racist ANC regime is engineering famine in South Africa. It commits systematic genocide against white farmers to steal their land. Absolute power flows not only from the barrel of a gun, but also from the hand which holds the food. Stalin starved 11-million Ukrainians in 1933; Cambodian dictator Pol Pot 2-million in 1975. Mugabe in 2000 ... and is SA next ?"
So what does Nkwinto plan to do about these 5.3-million hectares of destroyed farmland and indeed what about all those millions of poor black people who can now lay claim to this land? He said at the media briefing yesterday that he wants to 'improve the current output of the land which was already distributed'.
He talks tough – warning that "if people don't use this land for agricultural output they will have to get off it"- and that the "use it or lose it principle" will be firmly applied to redistributed farmland to ensure that South Africa's agricultural output does not decline further." However his tough talk is just talk : it will never happen that the regime would forcibly remove those millions of black people from State-owned farms they'd already been given settlement rights to. It would sit very poorly with the voters.
The overwhelming support which was received at the last ANC-conference in Polokwane/Pietersburg for its troika-partner - the SA Communist Party proposal to alienate all the private-held properties in south Africa - including all its private homes in the cities; the mines; all the farmland and the private game reserves and all the businesses, was definitely a wake-up call for the rulng ANC-leadership. Throwing millions of unproductive 'new black farmers' off the State-owned land simply will never happen.
So his tough talk to throw unproductive black farmers off the State-owned farms did make the headlines – but well hidden inside the story remains the fact that he is still throwing even more taxpayers' funds at keeping those very same unproductive black farmers on the land : budgeting another R254-million 'which will "flow towards 200 black farmers in distress" as he put it -- and also getting capital-financing for an extra R207-million to help 'struggling" black farmers pay off their (State-owned) Land Bank loans.
Whether he will even succeed in removing these by now millions of "new farmers' who were granted permission to settle on these 5.9million hectares of State-owned farm land -- is actually a moot point. The ANC-regime will never embark on such a course. The issue of private land-ownership has always been the mainstay of ANC propaganda : they get votes from the black electorate because of their constant stream of promises that they will take away all the viable farmland from Afrikaner farmers (even though the Afrikaners produce all of the country's staple-foods) to hand it over to black communities. thus Mr Du Toit's claim that the ANC is 'engineering famine' in South Africa' also is entirely accurate. That's the result of their policies.
Less than ONE PERCENT of the entire South African land-surface now is still used for food-cropping at all : the ANC's land-'reform' policy clearly is a dismal failure ... as any bush-pilot who flies over this dismal landscape will be able to tell you...Now the country 's more than 50-million residents have to be fed for the most part by staple-food imported from off-continent – mostly from South America.
Of course Nkwinti uses a lot of ANC-doublespeak which can be interpreted in many different ways – and as all ANC-government statements this one also is deliberately complicated. For instance he says he is not going to apply the 'use it or lose it' principle to those black residents who were given land in the so-named 'reconstitution' process. And that's different from the 'redistribution' process.
The latter group – who were given perfectly good white-owned farms and proceed to destroy them in short order as the Minister has just pointed out – are the ones he is talking about. So who are these people who received 'reconstituted farms"? He didn't say – and the journalists present at his media briefing didn't ask. Perhaps they are familiar with the ANC-codespeak. Perhaps they didn't dare ask any intelligent questions.
What is clear however is that this ANC-cabinet minister basically was admitting that ninety percent of all these so-named 'redistributed' farms had failed. And it gets even worse each year : he also revealed that "last year more than half the farms bought by the government as part of its land redistribution for agricultural development programme had failed or fallen into decline."
In other words – it took these 'new farmers' just two harvest seasons to destroy their farms' ability to produce any excess food. Yet the white commercial farmers who had been forced to sell the land were producing so much excess food on those very same farms that SA – right up to 2002 – still was the largest food-exporter on the entire African continent, and also had more than enough affordable, excess food for local consumption. Now, South Africa has to import more than 60% of ALL its staple-food needs, ordering massive supplies from South American countries.
Source : http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.com/2010/03/53-m-hectares-of-black-run-farms-90-are.html