Africa’s most endangered species – the white farmer
White South Africans are Africans too. This wild and beautiful country is our homeland. Those of us who have made our lives elsewhere in the world never forget the uniqueness of Africa – where sunlight glows as if lit by a divine flame, and the kindness of strangers is made even more valuable by the precarious living conditions that have always existed there.
Far too many of us have left. And most who remain are frightened. The white farming community is at risk of disappearing. Rumours persist of a ‘white genocide’....
Recent reports show that attacks on white farmers increased by 25 per cent in 2018, with eight attacks per week. During these attacks farmers have been tortured...
These crimes against a vulnerable minority are provoked by the ANC governmen...
The Expropriation Bill is a disastrous and malicious policy, constructed out of revenge and appeasement.
... Women are too afraid of being raped to use public transport.
... The future is grim....
This rhetoric against white South Africans is abysmal, as is the quiet acceptance of it by the rest of the world. But the EFF are not guerrilla fighters hiding in the empty swathes of South Africa’s veldts. They are lawmakers, sitting in parliament....
... The only outcome of land reform will be yet another famine in Africa.
The white South African farming community is unique. Its language and culture is found nowhere else in the world. But these farmers are now the forgotten few, persecuted because of their race, hunted down by mobs who have effectively been sanctioned by the South African government....
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