South African Opposition Leader Vows to Seize White Owned Land

[philosslayer]

The leader of South Africa's opposition Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party has launched his party's campaign for the upcoming local elections, promising to rescue citizens from poverty, unemployment and corrupt government.

Around 40,000 people turned up at Orlando Stadium in Soweto on Saturday displaying massive support for fiery EFF leader Julius Malema's promises to seize white-owned land without compensation and nationalise the banks.

The huge turnout was a shot across the bows of the ANC, which failed to fill a similar stadium during the launch of its own manifesto in the coastal city of East London two weeks ago.

"We are not chasing the whites away. We are saying you have too much land. We want you here in South Africa, but 80 percent of the land belongs to us," Malema told the crowd. The white minority still holds the vast majority of farmland as well as a disproportionate share of the country's wealth.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/04/south-africa-malema-eff-draws-huge-crowds-polls-160430203336402.html

[DetroitSocialist83]

1. Good

The ANC has proved ineffective.

[Nye Bevan]

2. Well that policy did work so well in Zimbabwe. Makes sense. (nt)

[malaise]

12. It didn't work because the USA and Britain had no intention of honoring a single commitment

to the process - just like the Indigenous Americans - nothing signed has meaning. There are seemingly no consequences for western violation of their own International Laws, Treaties or Conventions.
Only Westerners can promote nationalism - Africans aren't even allowed to control their own Continent.
"Jackass seh di world nuh level"!

Racism is palpable - everywhere.

[NickB79]

14. What did the US and Britain have to do with the failure of Zimbabwe's land confiscations?

Mugabe destroyed the Zimbabwean agricultural sector all by himself.

[malaise]

18. Whatever n/t

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

3. South Africa can't give away the land they already purchased for land reform.

Nationalistic calls to subsistence agriculture tend to fall on deaf ears.

Julius Malema is a communist wanker.

[Matrosov]

4. It's payback time n/t

[linuxman]

5. LOL

Saw that coming.

I've been looking forward to ZIMBABWE II: The Sequel for some time now.

[Egnever]

6. And give it to who?

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

7. If they follow Mugabe's example, to the new government officials.

That worked out well. (or not)

[AngryAmish]

8. The golf is good in Melbourne

When you are outnumber the best idea is to emigrate.

[Kurska]

9. To be taken by, given to and mismanaged by party hacks

Leading to economic damage and food shortages.

That the history of this kind of stuff.

[Kingofalldems]

10. Interesting and illuminating thread, I must say.

[Visionary]

11. Worked so well before in Zimbabwe

Taking land from the owners who knew how to work it and giving it to cronies of the strongman in charge. No reason it shouldn't work in a similarly AMAZING fashion in this case.

[malaise]

13. The land was stolen

by imperialists. Facts matter.

[NickB79]

15. And the farms were abused and ruined by Mugabe's supporters once it was taken back

Which decimated the Zimbabwean economy.

[NickB79]

16. Good luck farming in Africa in the 21st century. Climate change is about to hammer it

http://www.climatechangenews.com/2016/03/07/climate-change-could-make-growing-these-crops-in-africa-impossible/

Global warming threatens some of sub-Saharan Africa’s most important crops, growers have been warned.

Key cultivating regions could become unviable in the coming decades under projected climate change scenarios, according to research published in Nature on Monday.

Bananas, beans and maize are most at risk of the nine staples that provide half of agricultural production. The other six – including millet, sorghum and yam – were found to be stable.

[craigmatic]

17. People in Africa are living in shanties and basically homelesss but a few hundred yards away you

mcmansions. Something has to be done. South Africa is still segregated just by economics now.

[malaise]

19. Just like the Native Americans

the Aborigines of Australia, etc., etc.

Sometimes I just weep for all of humanity.

[craigmatic]

20. exactly