A race war in South Africa?

[Tallguy88]

Jacob Zuma calls for confiscation of white land without compensation

President Jacob Zuma has called on parliament to change South Africa’s constitution to allow the expropriation of white owned land without compensation.

Mr Zuma, 74, who made the remarks in a speech yesterday/FRI morning, said he wanted to establish a “pre-colonial land audit of land use and occupation patterns” before changing the law.​

This could start a full on race war in South Africa:

Mr Zuma’s comments caused outrage among groups representing Afrikaans speaking farmers on Friday.

The Boer Afrikaner Volksraad, which claims to have 40,000 members, said its members would take land expropriation without compensation as “a declaration of war”.

“We are ready to fight back,” said Andries Breytenbach, the group’s chairman. “We need urgent mediation between us and the government. "If this starts, it will turn into a racial war which we want to prevent.”​

Jacob Zuma calls for confiscation of white land without compensation

 

[Far Side Of the Moon]

Wow just wow. Wasn't apartheid enough? Hope this doesn't happen.

 

[Tull]

War in every form is coming.

 

[Dawnhammer]

Corrupted and unpopular aging populist politician spews carbage. Sounds familiar.

South Africa has made pretty good progress as a state. Doubt they would throw all of that away.

 

[Aryeh Jay]

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[Dawnhammer]

Not really. In fact that bit of recent history should be in everyone's mind when they plan for another land reallocation - or theft in other words.

Older Washington Post article :

"Zimbabwe's problems began when the Mugabe regime seized what were mostly white-owned farms to distribute to the country's majority black population. On its own, this would have made sense as a way to try to make up for at least some of the inequities of the nation's not-so-distant colonial past. But it didn't when Mugabe just doled out the land to cronies who had no idea how to run large-scale commercial farms. Agricultural exports, which were a big part of the economy, crumbled."