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South African farmers should learn from Zimbabwe

South African farmers should learn from Zimbabwe
By: Brilliant Masaraure
Posted: Saturday, March 20, 2010 6:56 pm

THE atrocities committed in South Africa by the Apartheid regime were horrendous and all attempts at achieving peace and stability in the country, will have to be preceded by the material well-being of the black person in that country. There are arguments that the peace and reconciliation efforts of Bishop Desmond Tutu and many others in South Africa have healed that nation.

South Africa should learn from Zimbabwe. Sugar-coating such atrocities will never heal the victims, in this case the blacks who are still living as second class citizens in their country.

White commercial farmers in Zimbabwe did not heed the sign-o-the-times. They continued with the status quo while the black person suffered after independence. They refused to give up fertile lands and black people remained subjugated.

That naivety has cost them their livelihoods.

In hindsight, they probably wish they had integrated with the masses and shared wealth before the tide came. Now that the Government has demanded that the wealth be shared, through legislation, there's not much they can do anymore.

The current is in motion.

South African white farmers and industrialists should not bask in the comfort that their country is called 'democratic'.

The power of the masses is too strong; especially the majority masses.

If they do not heed the signs; especially the calls for nationalisation of farms and industries, then they have themselves to blame if that process is forcibly put in motion; and black people demand equal access to the means of production.

Labels: APARTHEID, LAND REFORM, LIBERATION, SOUTH AFRICA

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