South Africa Nineteen Ninety four I am so glad to see that my call has been answered. Top lawyers and historians are entering the debate about who the land belongs to. The most highly respected and arguably the best historian in the country Prof. Hermann Giliomee of Stellenbosch University said that Mulder was right. That blacks have no claim to the Western and Northern Cape. For those who do not know who Prof Giliomee is... he was professor of political studies at UCT and former president of the South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR). He is currently “Extraordinary Professor of History” at Stellenbosch University. He wrote in Beeld, of 23 February 2012 in an article called, What Mulder actually said. “The most offending sentences in Mulder’s speech went: The ANC likes to talk about "Black people in general" and "Africans in particular", but Africans in particular never in the past lived in the whole of South Africa. There is sufficient proof that there were no Bantu-speaking people in the Western Cape and north-western Cape.” Professor Giliomee said: Mulder continued, ”According to South African school textbook history, the Bantu-speaking people had moved down the continent from Africa’s equatorial regions, while Europeans had moved up from the Cape. They had met at the Kei River, in the present-day Eastern Cape.” Professor Giliomee wrote further: “ Business Day’s commentary on it is that historians contest many of Mulder’s statements. I for one, do not know of a single historian that contests Mulder’s statements that “Black people in general and Africans in particular” by 1770 never lived in the two mentioned provinces.” The narrative of the occupation of land in the 18th century is covered extensively at the hand of archival sources in “The Shaping of South African Society, 1652-1840”. I therefore wrote at the hand of archival documents about the first contacts and conflicts between white and black between 1770 and 1812, while Martin Legassick covered the northern border (the current Northern Cape). Like Jeffrey Peires points out in his standard work on the Xhosa history, that Xhosas never laid claim to any land on the other side of the Sunday’s river.” Professor Giliomee continued…. ”The only indigenous people that lived in the Western part of the country before white settling were the Khoi-Khoi and the San and the governments land restitution policy is definitely not aimed at them.” He said: “…that the government’s target of 30% land in black hands is in jeapordy, because this target has already been reached if one takes the 13% claimed to have been in black possession in 1994, the 8% the black government bought already and the 25% that Mulder claims already belongs to the state.” That gives us 46% of land in black hands at this very moment. Professor Giliomee wrote: “But the government is probably not interested in these statistics, because the department acknowledged that it did not know how much land was in state possession.” The Professor continued about President Zuma’s claim that Mulder should rather shut up, because this sensitive issue is for some people a matter of “life and death”. He said: “The question is for how many people is it a matter of life and death? In the opinion polls of the last 20 years, the need for land never figured as a matter of priority for blacks. Job opportunities, education, affordable food, housing, services and crime were far more important.” “When one reads the whole text of Mulder’s speech then it is clear that he is not busy with cheap politics, but attempts to touch an important issue in a responsible manner. What we can attribute the hysterical reaction of the media to, is difficult to determine.” Not so difficult if one understands what the agenda of the ANC and their lapdog media is. Like I have always said. The land issue is not about giving blacks land, it is about taking white’s land away from them. It is not about empowering blacks it is about the economic disempowerment of whites. It is about the removal of their legitimate claim to the land. The ANC is currently busy with a process of buying white land with white taxpayer’s money. But due to their own inefficiency and uselessness they are unable to process the cases of white farmers who actually WANT to sell their farms. So the question is why bother with lengthy processes like “Willing buyer; Willing seller” when you can simply TAKE it all by force in one sweep? And by doing so you can pocket the money yourself. The ANC’s greed, impatience and ill discipline is eventually going to get the better of them and they will lose it. They will come for us as history has shown. That day we must just be ready. news24/SouthAfrica/Politics/Mulder-stirs-hornets-nest-in-land-debate-20120215
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