Under its communist government, South African “land expropriation” — a euphemism for stealing white people’s land and giving it to blacks — has been an abject failure since its inception in the 90s.
In their quest for Equity™ (another euphemism for anti-white property theft), the authorities systematically seized white farms — many of which, for the record, had been in the same family for generations and existed long before the ancestors of much the current black population migrated to South Africa from surrounding regions.
After seizing them, the state then gave them away to blacks who often had no farming experience whatsoever.
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Predictable failure ensued.
First, the recipients, newly gifted with farms, fought and killed each other over their new pieces of property.
Then, the farms collapsed due to mismanagement.
Via The Guardian (emphasis added):
Intensive farming had been a pride and a fixation for white South Africans. The degree to which they made the land yield harvest was supposed to be their justification for keeping it. The apartheid government not only stripped black South Africans of the right to privately buy land, but poured massive amounts of money into assistance programmes for white farmers…
. The intense association between whiteness and hi-tech agriculture posed a sharp challenge to black South Africans. Finally able to possess the land they had so long been denied, they felt driven to prove they could farm just as well or better. Land reform was one of the flagship policies that Mandela’s political party, the African National Congress (ANC), instituted after apartheid’s end. It set up a process to buy whites out of their farms and pass them to black people…
In theory, this was the most direct reparation for the way land was stolen from black people. In practice, it quickly created two huge new problems…
Groups numbering into the hundreds were resettled on plots that had been owned by a single white family. Many quarrelled over its management, sometimes to the death.
The second, crueller problem was that the descendants of those deprived of rural land were also the least likely to have received the kind of education necessary to run a hi-tech farm in a globalised marketplace. Some couldn’t read; many hadn’t finished high school. Receiving a mechanised farm that immediately demanded the implementation of a computerised marketing plan for exporting the produce to Europe was, for these so-called beneficiaries of liberation, a little like receiving a welcome-to-your-new-country gift basket containing a screaming newborn baby…
Twenty years later, the landscape looked as though it had been hit by an apocalyptic event. Lychee and mango trees still grew along the sides of the road, but their leaves were brown and dry, and whatever withered fruit they produced was left on the tree to be gnawed by monkeys. Most of the buildings – sheds, packhouses for drying fruit – had collapsed and been stripped by vandals of their electrical wiring.
The ANC Government have 17 million Hectares, what do they produce? White South African commercial farmers produce some of the world’s top quality produce.
— Boer (@twatterbaas) December 20, 2024
Let’s talk some facts.
The ANC Government in South Africa took commercial farmland from White Farmers and gave it to Black… https://t.co/C63MXd7enP pic.twitter.com/sXEd8N8hPL
Via The Citizen (emphasis added):
When land redistribution goes wrong, it goes badly wrong: dilapidated or burnt down buildings, overgrown grass, plundered agricultural machinery and an unused fruit packhouse.
That is the sorry sight that greets you at the 3 000-hectare Zebediela Citrus Estate, once SA’s citrus crown jewel that used to export about three million oranges per year.
The collapse of the estate, south of Polokwane, has meant thousands of lost jobs and millions of rands in revenue, which has affected nearby towns such as Mokopane – all because of community infighting and court cases.
It was returned to the Bjatladi community under the land reform process in 2003 to empower thousands, but is now controlled by the Bjatladi communal property association (CPA).
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Whereas white farmers managed to farm on those same tracts of land successfully for centuries, the liberal media reckons that the reason for failed black farms is actually “a combination of factors” that includes “poor policy implementation” and “inefficient programmes.”
Via The Conversation (emphasis added):
Recent studies show that black South African farmers produce less than 10% of the country’s total agricultural output.
Some progress has been made as black farmers have joined commercial production and supply chains. But a combination of factors has entrenched the divide between commercial agriculture (mainly white) and subsistence farming (mainly black). Often blame is laid at the door of the private sector. But, in our view, this is an insufficient explanation.
Black farmers’ total share of farm output has been held up by a combination of factors. These include the poor and slow implementation of land reform, poor policy implementation, inefficient programmes and bureaucratic delays and poor coordination within government.
It's just never enough communism, right?
If only there were more “coordination within government,” this whole South African farm theft program would be going swimmingly.
