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Originally Posted by NewNick
The situation is a lot more complex.
This farmland did not exist before the white settlers created it from bush and scrub.
It is not as though the local blacks were running industrial intensive farming operations and had their land stolen. Much of the land was uninhabited before white settlement, and where there were existing people they lived a semi-nomadic subsistence existence.
However if you have ever been to South Africa and witnessed how millions of blacks live, then you would agree that some re-allocation of natural resources needs to take place.
But this plan is wrong on many levels, and it is unlikely to achieve anything other than a destruction of asset value and an economic catastrophe.
Very sad.
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they literally stripped black people from their right to own property when they came, those same black people obviously had farmland because they needed to eat something...as for creating new farmland, with black slaves, kinda gives the blacks the right to that land...its not like the white colonialists whipped out a magic wand and bush became land all of a sudden...
even if africans at the time lived like nomads, slavery changed that and the blood sweat and tears of the black man built that new farmland...
I think white people in SA control like 95% of the wealth even today...this has to change...and there is no pretty solution to it...