LogFAQs > #906182697

White Eagle posted...

Eh, idk. I'm not claiming to be an expert on the subject in regards to South Africa, but the situation doesn't feel right and seems a little like something someone could say in March 1994 about "see, decades of majority rule and there's no mass slaughter of Tutsi by the Hutu in Rwanda."

There are no parallels to Rwanda, whose First and Second Republics had a history of mass slaughter of Tutsi in 1959-64 and 1990-1993. If anything, a closer parallel might be Idi Amin's mass expropriation of Asian-owned businesses in Uganda in 1972. (It was the prelude to the expulsion of around 60,000 Asians who didn't hold Ugandan citizenship, but not "genocide".)

- Do I think that land seizures risk economic instability and food supply insecurity, whether short or long term? Yes.
- Do I think it's a cynical, populist vote-grabbing exercise filled with empty promises and false expectations, meant to deflect criticism of the ANC government for its economic failures? Yes.
- Do I think that confiscation without compensation amounts to theft? Sometimes.

- Do I think that rural evictions amount to "genocide" and that the next step is to "kill all white people"? No, I don't.
- Is this the biggest, or even the only story about people being dispossessed of their land by governments in Africa in recent years? No, it isn't.
- Is the biggest, or even the only news story coming out Africa for me because white farm owners have the same skin colour that I do? No, it isn't.