As South Africa begins its second decade after apartheid's dismantlement in 1994, the ruling Marxist African National Congress has rapidly escalated what some call "the Zimbabwe paradigm" – moving to more aggressively seize its white citizens' farms, possessions and futures.
South African President Thabo Mbeki, a devout Marxist, has been a strong supporter of Zimbabwe despite dictator Robert Mugabe's disastrous policies in the former Rhodesia, once known as the breadbasket of southern Africa. Now it appears Zimbabwe's problems have been projected onto South Africa. Almost 1,700 white South African farmers have been murdered since 1994, with another 15,000 recorded attacks. White children, babies and the elderly have been raped and mutilated in these crimes, which often are carried out with archetype military precision and the use of snipers.
Now, the Marxist-Leninist cadres of the African National Congress, or ANC, fellow travelers and sympathizers, are ready to take the next and final step in the liquidation of South Africa's whites and their wealth. Some years ago, Mbeki told the world: "Because of colonialism of a special type our victory in the national liberation struggle did not result in the departure of the foreign ruling class."
The ANC has enacted a "willing seller, willing buyer" program seeking to transfer white-owned farmland to black South Africans, but critics have countered that plan is moving far too slowly for their liking. White farmers believe government corruption, ineptness and inertia have been the reasons why farmland hasn't been transferred over very quickly.
Farmers claim they are charging market-related prices for their land, but the ANC has set far different values on the same land. As such, the ANC blames the farmers for slowing down their land reform project. The ANC owns lots of land in South Africa. The problem is the ANC officially doesn't know how much land it owns.
What is known is that the ANC government could invoke the Restitution of Land Rights Amendment Act. This Act was passed in 2003 and clearly authorizes the ANC to expropriate land.
