Many things do not make sense in this world because many things in this world are not balanced. In 2015, Britain finished paying off the debt it incurred to cover the payments to slave owners who lost their slaves due to the abolishment law of 1883. Under that law, Britain took a loan from banks and paid those slave owners immediately, and for more than a century has been paying banks for the loans. Understand that no one compensated the victims (yes the slaves)!
As we read that, thousands of Afrikaners (mainly White South Africans) gathered outside the US Embassy in Pretoria under the slogan ‘Make South Africa Great Again,’ echoing support for US President Donald Trump. This gathering was part of a rally where participants expressed their political views, and pushed for the government to compensate them for any expropriated land. Largely, the trajectory is that the government wants to take land from mainly white landholders to blacks since about 7% of those whites control more than 70% of the fam lands.
This should not be an issue for the white South Africans to recruit Trump. This is a common sense thing on economic opportunity. The government of South Africa should have a dialogue with these white farmers and ask them to voluntarily relinquish assets which can be distributed to the native blacks. That you colonized people, took their land, and registered it in your name without any compensation does not mean it belongs to you.
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The idea that the land is in a register your ancestors created and now belongs to you when you know that your grandparents killed and took the land from the natives should be self-evident. The government is approaching this democratically by working on the laws of the nation via the parliament. I am very confident that these citizens are also democrats. They should participate in the dialogue for a fair outcome, and not call Trump.
Many things happened under slavery and apartheid and the modern people should not ignore the root causes of these issues. Asking the government to compensate you from the general purse of the public is like UK black citizens paying taxes since 1883 till 2015 to cover the compensations to people who enslaved their ancestors! The shame was this: no bank rejected those payments despite all the modern crusades of human rights. Someone must show common sense on this in the league of F. W. de Klerk.
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Comment 1: Slavery was legal. The same way war is legal. The reason why the slave owners were paid was mainly to avoid problems such as another civil war.
Zimbabwe did something similar and destroyed their economy and were still lived under a tyranny. The reason why things don’t make sense is because life is complex
My Response: The South African government is also making it legal by passing laws in the parliament. So, the expropriation will be legal and even super-legal since this was not done via decree by colonizers, but a law passed by reps.
Zimbabwe did not have problems because of the change of lands. Rather, because of sanctions imposed by the global balancers. We expect South Africa’s economy to be sanctioned as a result of this fair deal and if the economy struggles, it has nothing to do with land and inability of natives to use the land. In Zimbabwe, efforts were made to punish Mugabe and farm global inputs suppliers were told NOT to make products available to Zimabwe farmers.
Comment 2: Shouldn’t those who illegally acquired something and sold it for a profit pay for that act, not those who legally paid to buy it later?
My Response: The sins of fathers should be visited to their sons and to the many generations. The natives who have nothing are being visited by those sins of poverty and lack of assets, and those on the other side should also be visited. The poverty of land did not end with natives, and the wealth from land should not also end with the first illegal colonizers. It goes through generations!
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