The Global War on Farmers
South Africa
Perhaps nowhere has the war on farmers been as brutal as South Africa, still known as the breadbasket of Africa. For decades, barbaric “farm attacks” and unimaginably gruesome murders have left thousands of farmers and their family members dead. Then-South African President Jacob Zuma and other political leaders routinely encouraged the carnage. Among other absurdities, they sing “struggle” songs with lyrics such as “kill the farmer” and “bring me my machine gun, we’re going to shoot the farmer.” The horror got so bad that even President Donald Trump and Fox News host Tucker Carlson publicly addressed the mass killings of South African farmers encouraged by government and the ruling party. A leading expert on genocide warned a decade ago that the attacks were being incited by government and appeared to be genocidal.
Meanwhile, race-mongering authorities continue to threaten “expropriation without compensation” of farms and ranches under the guise of “land reform,” part of the regime’s “National Democratic Revolution.” While black farm workers are occasionally killed, the vast majority of the farm-murder victims and commercial farmers are Afrikaner descendants of Dutch and other Northern-Western European Protestants. The escalating attacks and policy uncertainty threaten to turn the nation into a replica of neighboring Zimbabwe, which went from a major food exporter to famine conditions and dependence on foreign food aid. The South African Communist Party, which rules South Africa in a coalition with the Communist-dominated African National Congress, is a key player in the war on that nation’s highly productive farmers.
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