- Another week of vicious hate-speech against Afrikaners:
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- * Farmers face "peoples' tribunals" by communists
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- * Limpopo education chief declares war on Afrikaans schools
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- * Black Cape High Court judge launches newspaper attack
against 'white' colleagues
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- * Afrikaner farmers to face "people's tribunals"
by communists
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- Oct 01 2004 - South Africa's main rural problems are
the violent treatment of farm workers by "white"(i.e. Afrikaner-)
farmers and poverty, says the SACP's Blade Nzimande.
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- The Communist Party chief thus continues to spout his
hate-speech and downright lies targeting Afrikaner farmers -- with totally
unproven claims that "South Africa's main rural problems are the violent
treatment of farm workers by white farmers and poverty. South African Communist
Party (SACP) general secretary Blade Nzimande again made this claim on
Friday.
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- Contrary to this claim however -- there has in the past
year been exactly one case in which a so-called "white" farmer
has been charged with "abusing a farm worker" and this case was
thrown out of court when witnesses kept contradicting each other. However,
the Communist Party has never let a "good story"get in the way
of the facts.
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- One wonders how many farm attacks Blade Nzimande is going
to trigger with this latest hate-speech targetting Afrikaners.
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- This person was spouting this same old tripe at the "Joe
Slovo memorial lecture" at the University of Fort Hare in Alice in
the Eastern Cape.
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- And, in spite of the SA Labour Department's recently
having praised Afrikaner farmers for "complying by more than 98% with
the minimum-wage and other working condition demands" of the SA regime
-- Nzimande continues to claim that "farm workers and their families
were paid starvation wages and subjected to daily abuse..." Recent
farm inspections by the SA Labour Department found the opposite -- finding
that workers on farms were living in considerably better conditions than
industrial workers in urban environments.
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- This communist's main point of contention was the typically
Marxist complaint which has over the past 100 years, also brought so much
famine and disaster to Eastern-Block countries until the fall of the Berlin
Wall: He was "concerned," he said... "about the increasing
dominance of agribusiness," and which he claimed was "affecting
the viability of small and co-operative farming. Black farm workers, Nzimande
said, "still represent what is, perhaps, the most exploited section
of South Africa's working class". ..
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- His juggling of employment figures could also almost
be amusing if it wasn't so deeply sad: he now blames white farmers for
the fact that there's a lot less workers in the agricultural sector than
in 1994... but omits to mention that this is directly due to the government's
own "land-reform" policies. Many of the country's more than 150,000
"new black farmers" given formerly white-owned farmers to live
on -- invariably chase off the farm's entire previous work force and put
their own family members to work for free. In 1994, there were still more
than one-million workers in the agricultural sector who were working for
some 85,000 commercial farmers.
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- However with the ongoing campaign of violence, the ongoing
land invasions by squatters, -- (see http://groups.msn.com/asielsoekers'
DOCUMENTS page on this silent land-invasion process around the Bloemhof
dam in the Free State, for instance) -- and the government's land-reform
policies, there now are no more than 35,000 commercial farmers actually
left in South Africa, squeezed into only 7% of the country's total land
surface. Not surprisingly therefore, there's also a lot less black workers
than there were in 1994...
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- This fact is, however, being viciously twisted by the
communist party boss, who uses these tragic unemployment statistics to
stir up ever-more hatred against Afrikaner commercial farm owners, even
though the labour force is shrinking so dramatically through no fault of
their own. He fumes this week: "The agricultural industry's share
of total employment declined from 10.7% in 1996 to 9.9% in 2002. "The
wage share by this industry has further declined from 32.2% in 1995 to
27.3% in 2002,.
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- He also had his statistics wrong, claiming that "the
industry remains "heavily skewed in favour of some 46 000 predominantly
white owners". There's now some 35,000 commercial farmers left --
and there are more than 250,000 black farmers in South Africa now, who
actually should have increased the agricultural work-force, and also should
by now be sufficient quantities of affordable excess food for the entire
market of 200-million residents in southern Africa -- but obviously aren't
because famine is spreading throughout the region due to a grotesque lack
of excess food... Nzimande juggled the land-percentages inaccurately this
week claiming that "despite government's land redistribution and restitution
programme, only 3% of productive land has been redistributed.
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- What a strange percentage -- he ignores: the former homelands,
all now state-owned Trust lands occupied by hundreds of thousands of black
farmers and which make up more than 57% of SA's total land surface; Illegal
land invasions: he also ignores the massive illegal land invasions by armies
of homeless squatters, who are encroaching steadily on the country's small
parcels of fertile farm soil; and also prefers to ignore CIA satellite
pictures: the evidence from CIA satellite photos showing that South Africa's
commercial farming community has now been squeezed into no more than 7%
of the country's total surface.
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- Yet the communists still demand that a mere 35,000 "white"
farmers must continue to hire and pay the same one-million taxpaying-farm
workers who had been gainfully employed in 1994 by 85,000 farmers... He
therefore lies outright when claiming that "only 14% of the land is
in the hands of African people" -- but this is the lie which will
continue to travel around the world.
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- Strangely, he also attacked the ANC's so-called Agricultural
Black Economic Empowerment charter - but again, he's inaccurate in his
facts - claiming that the Agri-BEe charter "is silent about the role
of farm workers and the poor... thus the process is likely to be dominated
and led by white private agricultural capital."
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- The facts are that the Agri-BEE charter demands of "white"
farmers that they must slice up their farms and hand over the main portions
to their own workers; that they must make their workers "equal partners"
in all profit-sharing ventures and moreover, that "white" farmers
must by law 'educate' farm workers in agriculture - and that this must
all be done for free. The "proposed" Agri-BEE charter, which
undoubtedly will become a new law early next year, thus effectively will
turn the few remaining Afrikaner farmers into the slaves of their own workers.
Obviously even these ridiculous provisions aren't enough for Nzimande and
his communist party:
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- Kangaroo-tribunals for Afrikaner farmers to be held:
The threaten to this month turn rural areas into "tribunals for rural
people against commercial agriculture" and hold a large series of
violence-driven marches and a "national day of action on October 30."
55% of blacks feel "victimised by land injustice..."
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- The communists' hate-speech campaign against Afrikaner
farmers is very effective: the Mail & Guardian reports from Johannesburg
that last year, "only" 39% of questioned black South Africans
in a Markinor poll sampling had believed they were "the victims of
land injustices."
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- Yet only a year later this figure has soared to a startling
55%. Markinor researched this for the Institute of Justice and Reconciliation.
One wonders if there could be a link between these "findings"
and this year's increase in the number of deadly armed attacks carried
out against privately owned landowning families in South Africa -- of all
races. Strangely there are two glaring exceptions: neither Xhosa landowners,
nor the companies owning the large wine and fruit estates are ever reporting
having been attacked. They may have been - but there's no public reports
about this, also no reports of claims for damages filed with SA insurance
companies.
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- http://www.mg.co.za/Content/pd.asp?cg
- =Insight-National&ao=121605
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- http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa
- /Politics/0,,2-7-12_1598493,00.html
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- Black High Court Judge John Hlope causes race riot -
RAPPORT http://www.news24.com/Rapport/Nuus
- /0,,752-795_1598925,00.html
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- October 2 2004 - Rapport Sunday newspaper's main story
today, written by MARLENE MALAN and MPUMELELO MKHABELA, deals with an highly
unsavoury "race riot" which has split apart the judges and senior
advocates of the Cape High Court Bar -- after judge John Hlope lodged an
unprecedented hate-speech attack in a black newspaper against "white
judges" with claims that they are 'attempting to undermine the 'intellect
and talents of black judges.'
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- The outburst has split the High Court into two opposing
camps. Hlope mounted his attack in an interview with the black-readership
newspaper City Press. Judges and senior advocates have accused Hlope of
"spouting absolute nonsense and that his accusations were totally
unfounded."
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- Hlope 's outburst came after rumours that a decision
by the Cape High Court in the case had ruled against the Pharmaceutical
Association of South Africa and in favour of the government had been written
by Hlope instead of his colleague Judge Ntupheko Yekiso. Hlope also said
from the bench that he was "concerned about claims that white colleagues
claimed that he had written the decision on behalf of his colleague judge
James Ntlupheko Yekiso." Hlope said these rumours 'insinuated that
Yekiso was incapable of writing good judgments."
- http://www.news24.com/Rapport/
- Nuus/0,,752-795_1598925,00.html
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- Black education head declares war on Afrikaans schools
in Limpopo 30/09/2004 22:49 - (SA) BEELD -
- http://www.news24.com/Beeld/
- Suid-Afrika/0,,3-975_1598030,00.html?kps=193
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- "Prof Harry Nengwekhulu: "there are no Afrikaans
schools..." october 2 2004 - Retha Fourie reports from Polokwane/Pietersburg
that Prof. Harry Nengwekhulu, chief of the education department, has launched
an anti-Afrikaner diatribe, saying that there are no such things as Afrikaans
schools. He also threatened to confiscate the property of such schools.
He made the racist comments targetting Afrikaners at the education department's
annual meeting.
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- "There are no Afrikaans schools, there are only
public or private schools..." he fumed. He threated to withdraw the
accrediation of all schools who call themselves 'Afrikaans" and that
he would even have their assets - mostly paid for by the parents -- confiscated.
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- The man's racist outburst has caused deep concern and
anger in the Afrikaans community. Hannes Jansen, chairman of the Council
for School Management Bodies in Limpopo, said the outburst was "out
and out racist." "No public official is above the law,"
he pointed out, demanding that Nengwekhulu "remain within the law
governing Afrikaans-speaking pupils". Under the School LAW OF 1996,
schools have all been declared as independent legal entities, where the
school's parent-run control body is actually to determine the language
of education. And under this law, the furniture and other assets of the
schools - which often are paid with money raised by the parents anyway
-- are owned by the school as a legal entity, not by the State's education
department.
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- "This means that Nengwekhulu has no right to confiscate
school furniture as a way of trying to force an anti-Afrikaans educational
policy in that school," he said.
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- Jansen said parents with other language preferences always
are totally free to enroll their children in all Afrikaans-language schools
- and that school is then obligated under the Law to also provide and pay
for educational facilities in the parent's language of choice.
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- http://www.news24.com/Beeld/
- Suid-Afrika/0,,3-975_1598030,00.html?kps=193
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