The Citizen (KZN)

ANC emulates its hero Mugabe over land issue

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Ramaphosa will expropriat­e white farms to appease black voters, writes

IN Oelofse

n the late ’90s, Mugabe’s Zanu-PF party began to lose popularity. In a desperate attempt to gain favour with the electorate, Mugabe and his ZanuPF party decided, in the year 2000, to expropriat­e, without compensati­on, all white-owned farms.

This was, as we all know, done in a very violent manner, with white farmers in many cases be- ing literately dragged off their farms, their animals and pets butchered and houses and crops burnt.

These actions immediatel­y led to the total downfall of Zimbabwe.

The ANC have learnt well from their hero Mugabe.

In a case of déjà vu, the ANC are also fast losing favour with the voters, and President Ramaphosa is about to play the same stunt in South Africa by expropriat­ing white-owned farms to appease the black voters.

The ANC government has done little about the land question to date with good reason. They have waited until their popularity has waned and now, they, like Mugabe, will play their trump card, expropriat­ion of white-owned farms, to gain favour with the black electorate.

This action will be the final nail in an already destroyed South African economy.

Farming today is a science and needs expertise and plenty of money to succeed.

Most of the people who will be put onto the expropriat­ed farms will not have the expertise to farm, or the funds.

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