South Africa’s ruling ANC says land expropriation bill withdrawn for further reconsid

[DeadLikeMe]

They're just holding off until they get the guns

There's only one way they're getting those registered guns. Literally all military surplus from central and southern africa is being pipelined to South Africa and Namibia. I'm 90% sure it isn't the government brokering these deals since they could just buy whatever arms they want from USA/Germany/France/Belgium/Russia/China/Israel/whomever

[JimRaynor]

This should be a wake up call for all White South Africans to get the hell out. Sell your land and farms even if you have to take a loss and get out.

[TipOfTheWhip]

The concept of redistributing huge farmlands back to native Black people from whom it was stolen is good, at least superficially. White people/companies own more than 70% of the land. Redistribution would give native people a chance to develop agriculturally. As far as I read, it would only apply to farmlands of significant acreage, likely to be in the hands of companies.

However, I would question, logically, the process for selecting how it's redistributed. A lot of ideas sold to the public sound great, and then they end up to be schemes to empower the allies of politicians. So, you have to be careful.

I don't like that they backed down on it, but I'm also su****ious as to their motives in the first place.

[Vlad_]

Take the land away first? Nah, first take the guns away, then move on to the land.

[DeadLikeMe]

This should be a wake up call for all White South Africans to get the hell out. Sell your land and farms even if you have to take a loss and get out.

This is their ancestral homeland. Their families have been there for over 240 years. Nobody was in the Cape Town area except a few bushmen (who went there because the Bantu/Zulu decided to genocide them because they made insubordinate ******). Kicking Dutch and English out of South Africa is like if ***** declared every black person in the United States is going to be shipped to Liberia. They wouldn't go without a fight, neither will the South Africans.

African-Americans make up ~13% of the US population and imagine how unfathomably bloody a fictional conflict like that would be. White South Africans are ~10% of the SA population and they have all the weapons used in the last 30 years of African civil wars stockpiled.

[Tony Trick-Pony]

This is their ancestral homeland. Their families have been there for over 240 years. Nobody was in the Cape Town area except a few bushmen (who went there because the Bantu/Zulu decided to genocide them because they made insubordinate ******). Kicking Dutch and English out of South Africa is like if ***** declared every black person in the United States is going to be shipped to Liberia. They wouldn't go without a fight, neither will the South Africans.

African-Americans make up ~13% of the US population and imagine how unfathomably bloody a fictional conflict like that would be. White South Africans are ~10% of the SA population and they have all the weapons used in the last 30 years of African civil wars stockpiled.

Nice breakdown, sir.

[JimRaynor]

This is their ancestral homeland. Their families have been there for over 240 years. Nobody was in the Cape Town area except a few bushmen (who went there because the Bantu/Zulu decided to genocide them because they made insubordinate ******). Kicking Dutch and English out of South Africa is like if ***** declared every black person in the United States is going to be shipped to Liberia. They wouldn't go without a fight, neither will the South Africans.

African-Americans make up ~13% of the US population and imagine how unfathomably bloody a fictional conflict like that would be. White South Africans are ~10% of the SA population and they have all the weapons used in the last 30 years of African civil wars stockpiled.

It's a hostile environment, and the whites are outnumbered 9-1. The South Africans are treadingly lightly right now because they don't want the repercussions from the white nations they trade with. If that dynamic should change, then it's your life for your land.

[Theodore]

This should be a wake up call for all White South Africans to get the hell out. Sell your land and farms even if you have to take a loss and get out.

I agree. It reminds me of the saying, "Your wallet or your life." You always choose your life, your wallet and the contents in it can always be replaced.

All of the whites should just pack up their stuff and get out, sell the land at a loss and get the hell out of Dodge.

[Jim Jeffries]

This should be a wake up call for all White South Africans to get the hell out. Sell your land and farms even if you have to take a loss and get out.

Sell for what and go where?

[JimRaynor]

Sell for what and go where?

Sell to possibly preserve your life, and go to a nation that wont take your land based on skin color.