South Africa’s Ramaphosa Praises Zimbabwe’s Murderous ‘Land Reform,’ Displacement of White Farmers
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa delivered a speech on August 29 in which he praised the bloody “agrarian reform” of Zimbabwe, which targeted white farmers for murder, moved one million black agricultural workers and led to a famine that dies of millions of people.
Ramaphosa, who denied the allegations of a “genocide” of white farmers in South Africa, made his comments at the opening of the Zimbabwe agricultural show.
The remarks were then published on the South African presidency website and on YouTube:
On independence in 1980, the new democratic government of Zimbabwe had to assume the capital task of dismantling the land ownership models of the colonial era.
Most commercially productive land in the country and large -scale commercial farms belonged to whites. The black majority was limited to municipal lands and, apart from completely excluded from commercial agriculture.
This reflected our own experience in South Africa.
It was therefore essential – for historical distribution and food security, development and economic growth – that the government has launched ambitious reforms to facilitate the entry of black Zimbabweans into productive agriculture, including support for small farmers.
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Ramaphosa’s pot story is trying to disinfect one of the most atrocious racial injustices in the modern era.
The president of Zimbabwean at the time, Robert Mugabe, embarked on so -called “agrarian reforms” – not to repair the racial imbalances in land property, but to consolidate his political power after losing a constitutional referendum to extend his executive authority.
Mugabe sent “war veterans” – alleged guerrilla warfares who had served in his militia in his fight against white domination – to intimidate and kill, white farmers and black agricultural workers.
The Zimbabwean farmer’s fire car killed Martin Olds is left outside his farm in Namyandlovu about 50 km west of Bulawayo on April 18, 2000. A group of forty armed war veterans attacked Olds Farm early this morning, killing Martin Olds while trying to escape his burning farm. (Photo of Costa Manzini / AFP) (photo of Costa Manzini / AFP via Getty Images)
Thousands of farms have been seized – but few have been redistributed to black farmers. Many found themselves in the hands of the friends of the Mugabe party, Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (Zanu -PF).
The ruling party used “agrarian reform” to start a political repression campaign, intended for unions and the media, with torture personally supervised by the loyalists of Zanu-PF such as Chenjerai “Hitler” Hunzvi.
The chief of the Veterans of the National War of Zimbabwe, Chenjerai “Hitler” Hunzvi, is held by veterans of the war, before addressing them outside the offices of Zanu PF in Harare, Zimbabwe, on Saturday April 29, 2000. At least 27 agricultural workers were attacked during the night, less than violence in farmers and representatives of the armed black dishes. (AP photo / Thema Hadebe)
The few farms operated by black farmers – mainly former agricultural workers – quickly failed. White farmers have fled the country, often finding refuge in other African countries, such as Zambia and Nigeria.
Mashonaland East, Zimbabwe: schoolchildren pass the entrance to the occupied farm Devonia on the way back of the school in a rural area about 40 km east of Harare, June 21, 2000. The farm now used as headquarters for the veterans of the region of the region was renamed “Black Power Farm” by the squatters after the left on the left. The land problem is exploited by the Zanu PF power party before the legislative elections of June 24/25. (Electronic image) (Photo credit should read Andersen / AFP via Getty Images)
Consequently, commercial agriculture collapsed. Zimbabwe, which had previously exported food to the world market, was forced to import food, and the government quickly lacked currency to buy imports.
The government has started to print money, leading to hyperinflation. Meanwhile, food shortages have led to a famine that affected 7 million twelve million people from Zimbabwe. One million agricultural workers have also been moved.
In recent years, the Zimbabwean government has admitted the fault – and, in a gesture of reconciliation and to improve relations with the West, it has in fact began to compensate white farmers for their tragic losses.
It is the “essential” and “ambitious” agrarian reform that Ramaphosa has chosen to celebrate in Zimbabwe – the one that many South Africans fear in their own country, even if Ramaphosa refuses it to the world.
Joel B. Pollak is a principal editor in Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday On Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evening from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. HE (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of The Zionist plot wants you, now available on Amazon. He was the winner of the Robert Novak former scholarship in 2018 journalism. Follow him on Twitter in @joelpollak.
