The Red Telephone Calls
The South African government are threatening to “declare all agricultural land a national asset”, which would effectively mean nationalising it…
Some of the responses in the South African Mail and Guardian Newspaper make very enlightening reading:
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” LAND must be a NATIONAL ASSET!!!!! ”
Pan Africanist on March 15, 2010, 10:22 am
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“Land is power,money,bread and life, any liberated nation without land is the lost nation of poverty,exploitation and economic exclusion.
The so called property clause in the constitution protect the rights of the agressors,opressors and exploiters who took our land through the barrel of the guns,our parents work through their blood and sweats to maximise profits of this imperialists on farms and they got nothing in return.
It is about time that the ANC government realised that they have misled the poor of the poorest are still in cesspool of poverty while whites are owning more farms.
Aubrew Ngwatle ”
Aubrew Ngwatle on March 15, 2010, 12:15 pm
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“Id just like to point out, that the ANC government, in the past year or so, have sold prime property to foreign companies.
A few areas have been sold to Australian platinum mine companies. And prime industrial/commercial waterfront properties have been sold to middle-eastern countries. All by the ANC.
This land issue is merely diversionary tactics, to make you believe that our country burning, is the fault of the white man, and not the ANC.”
Sinudeity @gmail.com on March 15, 2010, 2:07 pm
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“Its pointless for whites (farmers) to make noise about the land. This land belongs to blacks and its in our interests to have it nationalised not to be owned by a minority.
As you may know, the clause will pass in Parliament since ANC has the majority and they are being mentored by the man himself who had the balls to kick the white farmers from the Zimbabwean land (Bob). Surely you claim to own the farms, did you pay for them? You think Malema’s utterances are ill advised?
Finally there shall be sanity South of Limpopo and the land shall be returned to its rightful owners whether these white farmers like it or not”
Honourable Marshall Makoni on March 16, 2010, 10:32 am
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On a lighter note, I did have a good chuckle at an email that arrived today:
Nelson Mandela, Queen Elizabeth, and Vladimir Putin all die and go to hell.
While there, they spy a red phone and ask what the phone is for. The devil
tells them it is for calling back to Earth. Putin asks to call Russia and talks for 5 minutes.
When he was finished the devil informs him that the
cost is a million dollars, so Putin writes him a cheque.
Next Queen Elizabeth calls England and talks for 30 minutes.When she was finished the devil informs her that cost is 6 million dollars, so Queen Elizabeth writes him a cheque.
Finally Nelson Mandela gets his turn and talks for 4 hours. When he was finished the devil informed him that there would be no charge for the call and feel free to call South Africa anytime.
When Putin hears this he goes ballistic and asks the devil why Nelson Mandela got to call South Africa free.
The devil replied, “Since Jacob Zuma became president of South Africa, the country has gone to hell, so it’s a local call.”