IS the ANC insane?

Is insanity measured not by how many times you run repeatedly into a wall, but rather that you expect a different result each time?

That is the level of sanity prevalent in the ANC, so clearly illustrated in the 'land reform' policy and now that they want to expropriate land willy nilly - or rather because them or their cronies covet the land other people already own it is extremely clear that the ANC would rather exacerbate the food shortages that are becoming ever so frequent.

The land question has been a thorny issue since the arrival of democracy in the early 1990s and, judging from the ANC's latest resolutions, many people have become impatient and even angry at the slow pace of change.

The party has decided the time has come to move away from allowing the market to dictate the transfer of ownership from white to black hands and towards government taking more assertive steps to speed up the process.

"We should discard the market-driven land reform and immediately review the principle of willing seller-willing buyer so as to accelerate the equitable distribution of land," it says on land and agriculture.

What about the threats of expropriation if farmers do not toe the line with regard to price when a farm has been claimed, and the fact that more than 80% of farms are under claim in a number of provinces?

The ANC has resolved to make "fundamental changes in the patterns of land ownership through the redistribution of 30% of agricultural land before 2014".

Only 4% of agricultural land has been "redistributed" since 1994, while more than 80% of agricultural land remains in the hands of few than 50 000 white farmers and agri-businesses, it points out.

CRAP! The current area that is actually being used is less than 0.1% of the total arable land area which is only 12.1% of the total surface area of the country.

The document says the "predominance of capital intensive farming on vast tracts of land in ‘white' South Africa is directly linked to the reproduction of high population densities and land degradation in former bantustan areas".

"The current structure of commercial agriculture is the outcome of centuries of dispossession, labour coercion and state subsidy for the chosen few," says the ANC. "Since 1994, commercial agriculture has continued to develop in a manner that is characterised by growing concentration of ownership and farm size, underutilisation of vast tracts of land, capital intensity, job-shedding and the casualisation of labour."


"This minister is guilty of food security treason, and her actions do not disprove this statement," a fortnightly bulletin issued by the union said on Friday. "She is reckless, power driven and dangerously ignorant. It is time she is removed before we see food riots in the streets of South Africa." says the TAU SA (Transvaal Agricultural Union)

The agenda of the ANC is clear - get rid of the white farmers and replace them with idiotic subsistance farmers, farmers that can not even grow enough to feed themselves. When the poop hits the fan just the way it has done all over Africa, they will then do the following:

• Blame it on 'Apartheid' or the 'previous regime'
• Ask for...no demand hand-outs from the West

These are interesting times.....