Land reform has been at the forefront of political debate in South Africa in recent months, leading to strained relations with Donald Trump and his administration. A new law allows the government to expropriate land without compensation in rare cases where the land is abandoned or not being used. This has led some farmers and activists to call on the US president and Elon Musk for help, claiming that white South Africans are victims of racial persecution. But on the ground, other farmers say the issue has been plagued with disinformation. To date, no private property has been expropriated without compensation in South Africa. Our correspondents report.
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Unbelievable!!!
Do You Care About All The Black South Africans Who Are More Likely To Be Murdered Or Victims Of Violent Crime ????
It's Time To Distrupt The Land Fairly Apathied Is Over .
Safe Flight Donald And Elon Will Meet You At Arrivals 👋
pan-african is 'far left' huh?
no far right for black people huh?
amerika is a great country rigth??..then go home i
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Trump signed an executive order to grant them refugee status in America, why haven't they left yet? We are hoping they can go and be safe in the Western world so the rest of the South Africans can band together to make South Africa work by removing the current government which includes the poor performing ANC out. Good luck to all South Africans, may those that want to leave know that borders have always been open for them to leave.
Logic guys, Mr Trump is not 'an eternal god', what happens when the Dems take power in 4 years and they proclaim another 'executive order', reversing Mr Trump's refugee orders? Has it been proven that there was actually prosecution of Afrikaners in SA? Eventually, all these guys will start being deported back to RSA.
Please move to America.
1) I give you ten million Rand if you can prove any white South African owns any stolen land. We take it to the World Court.
2) We're going nowhere: We're not going to America; We're not going to Australia; We're not going to Europe. We're staying right here. We'll fight for Democracy and Justice.
America is far from perfect, south Africa need to work on their relationship as a country. Trump is the last person to fix south Africa.
They were fighting to bring back apartheid. This is their true colours, excuse after excuse, just so one can keep exploiting and gaslighting S. Africa.
1) 70% of privately owned land belongs to white South Africans;
2) That is 22% of South Africa;
3) The other 78% belongs to the government and to tribes (tribal lands);
4) Black Africans do not know the concept of private ownership of land. How much of Africa is privately owned?
5) Land acquired for Land Reform remains government owned. Even if only 10 privately owned farms remain, it shall still be 70% white.
Expropriation laws are practiced in USA and Europe so this is nothing new, they are just paranoid. Only imbeciles like Trump and Elon would entertain such nonsense.
I'm sure Elon will happily buy their land and rent it back to them
Look what happened to Gaza, dude .
Wait wait
The land was originally owned by Africans- the white descendants took it by force and coerced or lied and who knows what else
So many bots here
farmers
You are not our problem. Talk to your government lol.
Politicians like Julius Malema have been encouraging his followers to murder White farmers for years, yet for some reason this is not considered racist.
White people have been in Southern Africa for more than 500 years. This land has been bought and sold many times over at this point. Zimbabwe confiscated land from it's White population in 2000 and it was an absolute disaster. This would seriously damage the country.
Fake news! As a South african, i can attest! This reporter is very misleading and not laying all the facts on the table accurately. Google search the farm "akkerland" in south africa and you will see expropriation without compensation has already started before the bill was passed. Educate yourself and dont believe everything the media is telling you!
Why cant they just go away and leave Africa alone.. iam tired of this people, go to Usa or Europe
"Redistributed back to previously marginalized communities" Is Communist code for saying they stole the land and gave it to people loyal to them.
Victim mentality
SA is new Zimbabwe .
If the USA doesn't care about Europe, do you think they care about you
NONSENSE
Go back to Netherlands where you all came from creeps
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They should also legalize safe clean gold mining in the country let people work with some dignity, like South America or how America got so wealthy it's Gold Rush days. Illegal stuff allows black markets to thrive, like marijuana industries
What’s the main religion of most of these people? I’m just curious.
So they are still here, thought they have already gone to the USA, the land doesn't belong to them, they stole the land and must return it back to the owners
The black farmers in Zimbabwe did a wonderful job after they kicked the whites off the land.
No future for farmers in SA.
This government is affecting all of us not only farmers we get robbed when we go to work by our people its happening everywhere murderers are over and saps they are sleeping then then same people keep on voting for anc
God is with us South Africans Black and all other colours of the Rainbow nation.May God go with those who wants to go and remain with us who are remaining.Halleluya Amen
Sorry guys he is too busy ruining the rest of the world
These white people are longing for the days of apartheid which are gone forever. There must wake up, no Trump is gonna come to SA and overule the 86% black majority in SA
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2:07 again not understanding per capita
We will do this throughout the planet take back our lands from these snow demons
The world will not tolerate this anti white racism SA!😠