A new series of shocking photographs of a destroyed farm has revealed that South Africa, darling of the West’s liberal elite, is steadily following the path of Zimbabwe in the destruction of its largely white-controlled farming sector.
The pictures, taken by a former farmer forced off his land just three years ago under the African National Congress’s land redistribution programme, show a shocking collapse in infrastructure.
The farm, which lies near the border with Mozambique in the eastern part of the province previously called the “Transvaal” (the region has now been renamed Mpumalanga), was, in 2008, a thriving banana, citrus and sugar farm, located near to one of the region’s in the Eastern Transvaal near Komatiepoort and right next to the famous Kruger National Park.
The farm was sold to the ANC government and handed over to black farmers to develop further.
Last week, the white ex-farmer returned to the area to take part in a local church’s half-century celebrations, and out of personal interest, visited his old farm. He was, according to reports, unprepared for the shock which awaited him.
The pictures below are all “before” and “after” pictures with just three years in between. The last picture was taken by a helicopter and shows the scope of the destruction from the air.
Readers can rest assured that images such as these will always be deliberately suppressed by the controlled media.
For those interested in the topic, recommended reading is:
The Great South African Land Scandal
By Phillip du Toit. This book was published in the hope that that broader public will be informed about the slow cancer infecting commercial agriculture in South Africa and the decrease in food production which this loss is precipitating—and the possibility that South Africa could go the same way as Zimbabwe.
This is a vital piece of work. South Africa can do without many thinks, but it cannot survive without its farmers.
Thirty-five thousand commercial farmers feed 45 million people in a fragile land environment that is not farming friendly.
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If the white man is to have any chance, however slim, of a future in South Africa then he will have to separate himself as completely as possible from reliance on a state apparatus which has become increasingly corrupt and disfunctional since it passed under black control. He will also have to separate himself entirely from dependance on black labour. He must create his own institutions, such as banks and schools serving himself alone and separating himself from black “society” almost entirely.
At Orania this has begun to happen allthough as yet on only the smallest scale.
If the white man …?? I don’t think ‘the black man’ has a future in South Africa. Before whites arrived, the population was tiny fraction of what it now is; about 1 or 2%. The net impact of whites was to vastly increase population, and instal an infrastructure which is not particularly adapted to local conditions. It seems likely there will be a population crash in Africa. My personal guess is that the future there depends on technology; someone has to invent ways of trapping water and energy which don’t rely on rare metals and non-metals. If this doesn’t happen, maybe the whole area will simply be regarded as not very suited to human life, just as Australia was hostile before modern inventions.