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Radical opposition party advocating seizure of white-owned farms set to surge in South Africa's election
The Telegraph Adrian Blomfield,The Telegraph 14 hours ago
When South Africa goes to the polls on Wednesday, only one party looks certain to increase its share of the vote.
The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) advocates the seizure of all white-owned farms and the nationalisation of much of the economy.
Its leader Julius Malema frequently indulges in race-baiting rhetoric to advance his cause, once declaring that ?we are not calling for the slaughtering of white people ? at least for now?.
That a party whose red-bereted followers stage violent protests, ransack shops and threaten journalists is gaining such traction speaks volumes about the scale of disillusionment in South Africa 25 years after the end of white rule.
The EFF has no chance of winning the election. But, should it double its share of the vote to 12 percent, as some polls predict, it will be in a strong position to influence South African politics, possibly pulling the ruling African National Congress onto a more populist trajectory.
Mr Malema, who formed the party after he was expelled from the ANC in 2013, has built his support base on a simple message: the end of apartheid may have brought black South Africans political liberty but it has not brought them ?economic freedom?.
In a country ranked in some studies as the most unequal in the world, most of the country?s wealth and much of its privately owned farmland is still under white control. That distortion, he says, is mostly the fault of the whites, who must be forced to surrender wealth because they are not willing to share it.
?White people, you will no longer eat alone,? he warned, as he addressed his final rally in Johannesburg?s Soweto township on Sunday. ?We?re coming to sit at the dinner table and, if you?re refusing us, we?re going to destroy that dinner table. No-one is going to eat.?
Such demagoguery plays well to the EFF?s core, many of whom are young and share Mr Malema?s belief that Nelson Mandela ?sold out? black South Africans by being too conciliatory to the white minority.
But others are contemplating casting their ballots for the EFF as a protest, angered by the ANC?s failure to lower unemployment and the astonishing corruption that took place during the presidency of Jacob Zuma between 2009 and 2017.
?It is unbelievable how much they stole,? said Nkululeko Duze, an unemployed man from the Johannesburg township of Alexandra, who says he is thinking of transferring his vote from the ANC to the EFF for the first time.
?Under apartheid there was corruption but at least they got things done. The ANC has been so busy stealing it has no time to get things done.?
Cyril Ramaphosa, who replaced Mr Zuma as president last year, has pledged to revitalise a sclerotic economy and hopes to root out corruption.
His room for manoeuvre, however, could be limited by a poor showing in the election. Some opinion polls suggest the ANC could win as little as 51 percent of the vote, down from 62 percent under Mr Zuma in 2014.
The EFF is unlikely to form the official opposition, with the pro-market Democratic Alliance (DA) likely to come close to the 22 percent it polled in 2014.
In Mmusi Maimane, the DA has a black leader for the first time in its history, the party is still seen as representing the interests of South Africa?s white, Asian and mixed-race minorities and some analysts believe it has reached a ?glass ceiling?.
The EFF, however, is far more dangerous to the ANC because it can peel off black South African voters.
Should Wednesday?s election give it momentum, Mr Ramaphosa could be vulnerable to his ANC foes, both from the left of the party, where sympathy for the EFF runs deep, and from Zuma-era holdovers who fear prosecution.
At the very least, they will press him to adopt a more radical approach to the proposed seizure of white-owned farms without compensation. It could even lead to an internal coup against Mr Ramaphosa.
South Africa?s election could, some analysts warn, leave the country with the worst of all worlds: a reformist president too weak to enact reforms, a moderate opposition with little influence and a populist party gaining momentum.
World
Radical opposition party advocating seizure of white-owned farms set to surge in South Africa's election
The Telegraph Adrian Blomfield,The Telegraph 14 hours ago
When South Africa goes to the polls on Wednesday, only one party looks certain to increase its share of the vote.
The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) advocates the seizure of all white-owned farms and the nationalisation of much of the economy.
Its leader Julius Malema frequently indulges in race-baiting rhetoric to advance his cause, once declaring that ?we are not calling for the slaughtering of white people ? at least for now?.
That a party whose red-bereted followers stage violent protests, ransack shops and threaten journalists is gaining such traction speaks volumes about the scale of disillusionment in South Africa 25 years after the end of white rule.
The EFF has no chance of winning the election. But, should it double its share of the vote to 12 percent, as some polls predict, it will be in a strong position to influence South African politics, possibly pulling the ruling African National Congress onto a more populist trajectory.
Mr Malema, who formed the party after he was expelled from the ANC in 2013, has built his support base on a simple message: the end of apartheid may have brought black South Africans political liberty but it has not brought them ?economic freedom?.
In a country ranked in some studies as the most unequal in the world, most of the country?s wealth and much of its privately owned farmland is still under white control. That distortion, he says, is mostly the fault of the whites, who must be forced to surrender wealth because they are not willing to share it.
?White people, you will no longer eat alone,? he warned, as he addressed his final rally in Johannesburg?s Soweto township on Sunday. ?We?re coming to sit at the dinner table and, if you?re refusing us, we?re going to destroy that dinner table. No-one is going to eat.?
Such demagoguery plays well to the EFF?s core, many of whom are young and share Mr Malema?s belief that Nelson Mandela ?sold out? black South Africans by being too conciliatory to the white minority.
But others are contemplating casting their ballots for the EFF as a protest, angered by the ANC?s failure to lower unemployment and the astonishing corruption that took place during the presidency of Jacob Zuma between 2009 and 2017.
?It is unbelievable how much they stole,? said Nkululeko Duze, an unemployed man from the Johannesburg township of Alexandra, who says he is thinking of transferring his vote from the ANC to the EFF for the first time.
?Under apartheid there was corruption but at least they got things done. The ANC has been so busy stealing it has no time to get things done.?
Cyril Ramaphosa, who replaced Mr Zuma as president last year, has pledged to revitalise a sclerotic economy and hopes to root out corruption.
His room for manoeuvre, however, could be limited by a poor showing in the election. Some opinion polls suggest the ANC could win as little as 51 percent of the vote, down from 62 percent under Mr Zuma in 2014.
The EFF is unlikely to form the official opposition, with the pro-market Democratic Alliance (DA) likely to come close to the 22 percent it polled in 2014.
In Mmusi Maimane, the DA has a black leader for the first time in its history, the party is still seen as representing the interests of South Africa?s white, Asian and mixed-race minorities and some analysts believe it has reached a ?glass ceiling?.
The EFF, however, is far more dangerous to the ANC because it can peel off black South African voters.
Should Wednesday?s election give it momentum, Mr Ramaphosa could be vulnerable to his ANC foes, both from the left of the party, where sympathy for the EFF runs deep, and from Zuma-era holdovers who fear prosecution.
At the very least, they will press him to adopt a more radical approach to the proposed seizure of white-owned farms without compensation. It could even lead to an internal coup against Mr Ramaphosa.
South Africa?s election could, some analysts warn, leave the country with the worst of all worlds: a reformist president too weak to enact reforms, a moderate opposition with little influence and a populist party gaining momentum.
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I was re-watching "Strike Back" and I have to say Joburg is a SLUMY SLUM SLUM. If it were to happen here in the US I say the "Rust Belt" would be the beach head. West Coast doubtful. The money would leave before sharing. But if money left everyone would be in the same boat with illegals. Then again it wouldn't be like Joburg since they don't have illegals. So no. 0 -
killing off the whites who BUILT THE FARMS, etc after centuries of black jungle do nothing ought to solve the problem by starving the current political hoopla there to death......but i suppose AMERICA progressive will deem it necessary to send BILLIONS$$$ in foreign aid and increase our immigration rate to save them on the backs of OUR middle class that actually works and pays TAXES 0 -
I hope someone got the Nukes out of SA.......can you imagine.. 
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Junkballer wrote:I hope someone got the Nukes out of SA.......can you imagine..
Thank God they did. They dismantled them in 89 after they agreed to end the war with in SWA and Angola. The Whites were never going to allow bl*ck Communist Terrorists to have nukes, they also saw the writing on the wall and knew the country was doomed, just Like Rhodesia.
We can thank all the libtard Europeans and Japanese, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush SR, and Richard Lugar(R-IN). But George Bush really pushed.
If you are White and live in SA you are an idiot or a brave SOB.0 -
Going to need experienced farm workers. Maybe we should set up a shuttle service from our southern border. Maybe give them a few of our far left idiots to help redistribute (steal) the wealth. How about some of the Hollywood elite to keep the country entertained so they don't notice it going down the crapper? Bob 0 -
A few nations will never learn. Wasn't enough to see Zimbabwe ruined.
Folks figure they'll get rich off "stolen land" but they fail to take into account they need to first understand how to work then work,, thinking someone will buy their stolen land means someone needs to making the purchase money, in current currency denominations.
LIKE ZIMBABWE:During the height of inflation from 2008 to 2009, it was difficult to measure Zimbabwe's hyperinflation because the government of Zimbabwe stopped filing official inflation statistics. However, Zimbabwe's peak month of inflation is estimated at 179.6 billion percent in mid-November 2008.
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Sam06 wrote:Junkballer wrote:I hope someone got the Nukes out of SA.......can you imagine..
Thank God they did. They dismantled them in 89 after they agreed to end the war with in SWA and Angola. The Whites were never going to allow bl*ck Communist Terrorists to have nukes, they also saw the writing on the wall and knew the country was doomed, just Like Rhodesia.
We can thank all the libtard Europeans and Japanese, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush SR, and Richard Lugar(R-IN). But George Bush really pushed.
If you are White and live in SA you are an idiot or a brave SOB.
All should pull out and leave. (Scorched earth, salt the ground.) No working machinery, etc.
Like various other African Countries that have gone this route, you will be in a world of hurt/starving within 10 years.
How did that work out for you?0 -
If they do gain power he will be right about no one is going to eat. 0 -
My B-I-L and his wife emigrated from England to SA 50 years back. When he passed away 3 years ago, helped get his wife out of SA and back to England. Place has been turning dangerous for several years. 0 -
Mr Malema is only seeing the Whites farms.He seems ignorant of the fact that they have been working hard over centuries to put fertiliser into the ground and irrigate water where it?s needed.When the Whites leave their farms Africa dies. 0 -
The USA needs to take a No Interference position. Like the Start Trek Prime Directive.
Let them survive or fail on their own.
White people are going the way of the dodo bird. They won't fight to keep their property and freedom.0
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