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The killing of white Afrikaner farmers in South Africa is a matter that
has not been widely reported in the news outside of the country.
However, since the fall of apartheid, the tide has turned against white
people from European backgrounds and it is reported that thousands have
been killed in a move to drive them out of South Africa. The matter has
become so bad that Genocide Watch deems the country to be in the ‘preparation’ stage of genocide.[1] There is a fear that, when former president Nelson Mandela passes away, violence in South Africa could
spiral out of control and the situation for the white population may
worsen further. Indeed, there has been a reported increase in the number
of farmers attacked since he entered hospital earlier this year.[2]
The South African Government appears to turn somewhat of a blind eye
towards the issue of farmers being attacked and, as a result, the actual
figure for the number of farmers killed is not known. The BBC reports
that there have been over 2,000 killed, whilst other news agencies
report this number to be over 4,000. Some pressure groups even claim
that tens of thousands have been killed, but this is wholly
unsubstantiated. It is also difficult to monitor the motivation behind
the attacks as the police are prevented from recording murders by race
and furthermore don’t keep separate statistics about farm murders in the first place. The Government consistently claims that the farm attacks
are nothing more than straightforward robberies. A study in 2003 backed
up this claim, finding that 83.9% of attacks are simple robberies and in
only 2% of attacks could a political motive be discerned. This report
led to the Government disbanding the commando units that had been set up
to protect the farmers and transferring responsibility to the police[3].
In late 2012, after an investigation by their President Gregory Stanton, Genocide Watch published a report into why Afrikaner farmers are being
killed. The report was a damning indictment of how bad the situation
really is. It claims that the murder rate for Afrikaner farmers is 97
per 100,000 of the Afrikaner population per year, which is much higher
than the 31 per 100,000 in the rest of the South African population.[4]
So, whilst it may be hard to discern a racial motivation behind the
attacks, it is clear that Afrikaner farmers are being targeted. It is a
result of this that the organisation has put South Africa on its
genocide watch list. Its genocide watch list acts as an early warning
system to warn of the danger of genocide occurring. They also have an 8
stage classification system for placing where a country is on the path
to genocide. Since the issuing of the above report, Genocide Watch has
placed South Africa at Stage 6, which is the preparation stage of
genocide. The next stage is extermination.
The situation for white people in South Africa appears to have become
worse since President Jacob Zuma took office. His African National
Congress Government, along with the South African Communist Party,
support the redistribution of wealth and have adopted policies that aim
to seize land away from white people and hand it back to black persons.
Whilst no one could deny that this is a noble gesture to right the
wrongs suffered by the native black South Africans, in reality, the
people taking over these farms are ill-equipped to cope with them and
the agriculture industry is suffering as a result. A similar situation
was seen in Zimbabwe in 2000 when President Robert Mugabe launched a
campaign to force white farmers off of the land. This campaign
ultimately ruined the country’s agriculture industry as those who took
over the farms did not know how to run them and Zimbabwe now relies on international aid to feed its starving citizens. This is an affair that
South Africa cannot afford to repeat.
The attempt to force Afrikaner farmers out of South Africa is not the
only sign that white people are suffering in South Africa. In May, the
BBC published an exposé of life for white people in South Africa that
revealed that there are over 200,000 white people living in squatter
camps with no running water or electricity. Whilst the white population
still hold a disproportionately high percentage of the country’s wealth,
the stark reality of the numbers living in poverty cannot be ignored. In addition to this, the report claims that a white farmer is twice as
likely to be killed than a police officer. The number of white farmers
in South Africa has halved in the past 20 years, a possible indication
of the number of whites that are likely to leave in the future if the
situation continues.
It is clear that there is a real problem going on in South Africa that
is hidden from the rest of the world. Whilst the ANC is supposed to be a
party to unite a non-racial South Africa, in January 2012 their leader
Jacob Zuma was filmed singing a ‘struggle song’ called Kill the Boer.
Boer is the Afrikaans word for farmer and used to refer to white
Afrikaners in the country. This could be classed as hate speech, a form
of incitement to commit genocide outlawed by the Genocide Convention, to
which South Africa is a party. Whilst insinuating that South Africa is
in the preparation stage of genocide due to this may be jumping a step
ahead as there is little concrete proof that the murder of farmers is
racially motivated, it cannot be denied that the environment in which
whites are being forced to live in the country is undesirable. The
Government and police force cannot continue to ignore the problem, but
it seems unlikely that a president that sings offensive songs against
the Afrikaners is going to do anything to stop them being targeted and
as long as this issue is hidden from the rest of the world, there will
be no pressure on the government to act.
http://www.hscentre.org/sub-saharan-africa/south-africas-white-farmers-un der-siege/
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