Encouraging rural folks to be informed of critical status of South African farmers

[ovrszd]

This is why I always like ovrszd'd posts.

"You cannot live a perfect day until you do something for someone who will never be able to repay you."

John Wooden

Thank you.

 

[MickeyDBC]

A big part of the problem is worldwide political correctness. The mainstream media won't touch this issue as showing whites being discriminated against by a black government doesn't fit their agenda. I better stop now before my head explodes or I'm banned from the site.

I doubt that your local news stations are covering it but NPR, BBC America, and the News Hour on PBS have had decent coverage of how bad it has gotten in Zimbabwe under Mugabe and the violence and discord in the post Mugabe elections. I have also heard several good pieces about SA and how bad the crime has gotten there and the new "land reform laws" and how economists think they are on the path to a tidy bowl cruise. I mostly get most of my news listening to public radio driving back and forth to work. My wife who is not a news junkie just changed jobs because the company was requiring her to go to a week long meeting in SA because she did not feel safe going there. There is a lot of coverage out there, but the big guys like ABC, CBS, Fox, and the like generally don't jump in until the bullets are flying and it looks like the US is going to be brought in to try and fix it. For the most part they are just big versions of local stations focusing on US news and events affecting us and working with more and more limited budgets.

 

[cqaigy2]

It's all about power, who has it, who doesn't and what will they do to get it. It's not a white vs black issue, not religion, those are just some of the tools being used to split people apart, to cloud peoples minds to make it easier to manipulate them so that they lose track of what would be best for all of them and not just for a few.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

It's all about power, who has it, who doesn't and what will they do to get it. It's not a white vs black issue, not religion, those are just some of the tools being used to split people apart, to cloud peoples minds to make it easier to manipulate them so that they lose track of what would be best for all of them and not just for a few.

Let me just say that I disagree with you; I believe it is a black vs. white issue. The land they want to convert (read...steal) belongs to, and is being worked by, and the mortgage is being paid whites. Power is the ultimate goal, of course, but it's all about it being wielded by blacks, not withstanding their lack of ability.

I would be interested to hear your reasoning as to why you think it's not a white vs. black issue.

 

[oosik]

I wonder why anybody would think rural folks - in a country where the political system is so obviously out of balance - could do them any good.

Its like asking a man who is standing in the gallows to come and help you with a great burglary.

Lord - have the common sense to help tyne own self first before going afield.

The day of reckoning is soon upon us.

All of this and I've always been a certified atheist.

 

[kenmac]

There is a young guy that bought a place not far from me. He is from South Africa.
The company he worked for in so Africa is the parent company for Auto Car.
They relocated him and several of his engineer friends here where Auto car opened a plant a few months ago to build trucks

He tells me it's very bad in So Africa. General labor goes for about $1.00 per day. He said the government is trying to pass a min. wage law of $10.00 per day.
He says he's trying to gt his and his wife's parents over as well.

If the radical liberals ever get control here, I can see this happening some day, as they are also in favor of the redistributing of wealth

 

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I have deep sympathy for the farmers in Zimbabwe and South Africa who have had and are having their lives turned upside down. I don't think the governments are going about things in a good fashion.

I'm also sympathetic to the landless people who had their lives put into a grinder over the last 100+ years of colonial activity, and anyone who thinks that the events of the present are unfair only to the large farm owning people and that the others should somehow earn many lifetimes of wages to be able to buy any land at all have their heads buried in the sand (or elsewhere) .

 

[2LaneCruzer]

I wonder why anybody would think rural folks - in a country where the political system is so obviously out of balance - could do them any good.

Its like asking a man who is standing in the gallows to come and help you with a great burglary.

Lord - have the common sense to help tyne own self first before going afield.

The day of reckoning is soon upon us.

All of this and I've always been a certified atheist.

You are probably correct, but I think you missed the point...being that we should take heed of what is happening in what was not too long ago was a modern, thriving nation with some racial issues.

 

[om21braz]

I wonder why anybody would think rural folks - in a country where the political system is so obviously out of balance - could do them any good.

Its like asking a man who is standing in the gallows to come and help you with a great burglary.

Lord - have the common sense to help tyne own self first before going afield.

The day of reckoning is soon upon us.

All of this and I've always been a certified atheist.

You are not alone and quite often it is while in a thought pattern of this nature that God begins his work:

As an atheist, I truly believe Africa needs God – Voice of Revolution

 

[SirReal63]

I have posted a link to a documentary on the status of farmers in South Africa. So far, attempts to get refugee status for these people has not succeeded and is being opposed by the media, the UN and many nations, like NZ and Australia. I made the actual posting on the "Friendly Politics" forum, but it seems only a small part of the forum membership views that forum. Not too surprising given the theme of the majority of threads there.

Unless these people are permitted to go to different host countries, the likelihood of a "real" genocide is very high indeed. I would encourage folks to watch the documentary and consider whether more should be done for them vs any of the other refugee groups in the world.

https://www.tractorbynet.com/forums...ary-farmlands-investigating-farm-murders.html

Direct link below to the video for those not subscribed to the politics forum.

My wife and I did watch it, it was a real eye opener. I am not really surprised the Media isn't covering this. What I probably the most surprised by is how many people have commented on this thread and issue without actually watching the video, it is very obvious.