CampSkunk said:
In contrast, I just had a call yesterday with an ex pat South African who is currently residing in Switzerland, and coincidentally he is traveling home to Cape Town for some leave this weekend. I asked him specifically about the violence that has recently been reported. He said that there is not general land confiscation from white farmers like we saw under Mugabe in Zimbabwe. He said that there are definitely security issues, break-ins and the like, from criminals just like in any other country, but that things are actually getting better as the ANC is losing ground to the Democratic Alliance (DA) and other non-communist parties. He did mention that a lot of whites have moved from Johannesburg and Pretoria to the Western Cape province, and to me it sounded a lot like Californians moving to Texas because of all around better government. Of course, this is just one guy's observation, but he still has family in Cape Town, so I think he is pretty knowledgeable.
Very similar to a farmer (I remember he had thousands of sheep) I met in San Antonio years ago. We correspond and keep up on Facebook. He says the land confiscation
was overblown along with the attacks on White farmers - not so much anymore on the land front. He says a new law passed this past January makes land confiscation easier, but even that will likely be targeted to areas near Black townships, and they totally wreck it when they do get ahold of it, His parents died a couple of years back, and he's moving to Australia when he sells his farm. Apparently it's expensive as hell to immigrate and it will cast him a great deal of his farm proceeds to pull it off, but his wife can't get a job as a teacher since she's not Black. He also said the really rich guys are doing perfectly ok and won't go anywhere. Nobody will screw with them because they can buy off politicians and are essentially protected.
I will say this - Elon got his election stuff totally wrong. The really radical commie guy someone posted about got wiped out in the last election (last place) and the Whites gained ground. The problem was, the ANC and the third place folks have teamed up with an ousted former president…….
It only took me a year to figure out this place is nuts!