Like the famous St Peter’s fish endemic to the Sea of Galilee and highly prized for its exceptional health benefits, we have dashed one way, only to vaguely see something we didn’t like shimmering in the distance through the water, now we go another. In a restaurant in Craighall Park in Johannesburg, a relative of the presidency was clearly overheard making the following remark at about 09h30 on a Tuesday in late September 2014, in English, “We all know why Malusi is making it more difficult to get visas. It’s to keep out the Europeans and Americans. We don’t need more whites owning this country”. Although this was heard directly by the author, from not more than 750mm away, this hearsay anecdote is not intended to be a definitive piece of evidence of conspiracy. Read on.
Then, in February 2015, we heard the president say in his state of the nation address that foreigners’ freehold property rights would be converted to leasehold, under the Land Holdings parliamentary bill.
The Land Holdings bill would also limit the amount of land which could be owned by any individual to 12,000 hectares. The presidency then elaborated a few days later that the government would purchase the excess land, where applicable, and redistribute it. To be fair, it’s not uncommon for countries to limit the amount of land which non-citizens and juristic persons (such as companies with foreign ownership) may own. ´But perhaps you, like us, are beginning to think “Well, there’s nothing wrong with a fish seeing a torn-off piece of net floating in a lake, either. The problem, Dear Author, only comes when one piece of net is attached to another and another, and they envelope our little shoal of fish”. That’s the thing. Consider the following now.
On 5th March 2015, at the opening of the House of Traditional Leaders, President Jacob Zuma made what Anthea Jeffery called “an impassioned plea” to traditional leaders to obtain good lawyers and to get in on the act of claiming land. If there was ever a blatant attempt to get people to take something to which they apparently did not believe themselves entitled, it is this. How it is that the media have not made hay out of the President’s strident urgings, we’ll never understand.
Now, consider that the government openly says that it anticipates receiving something like 380,000 land claims over this second period; versus the 79,000 claims whose successful portion equalled 2.63% of the land and R18,000,000,000, from the first period! Is one exclamation mark enough?
Please give a moment’s thought to the preceding statements.
Any arithmetic reduction of this is purely speculative, but it would not be unfair or dishonest to suggest that the government aspires, in theory, to pay out close to R100, 000,000,000 (one hundred thousand million Rand, or R100 billion if you prefer) if you factor just a modest inflation, and to award, say, 10% of the total surface area of the country, which might be – conservatively – as much as 25% of the eligible or feasible land area of the country. Remember that we are not using our own data, and any extrapolations that we have done are conservative (and you can check that for yourself with an ordinary Sony pocket calculator).
What’s more, in the first quarter of 2015 the Land Claims Commission began demanding that it be kept informed of all property sales, which it has the power to veto. Please! Think carefully about this. If the ends of the net begin to be drawn onto the boat, this will amount to a threat to white land ownership such as no-one in the mainstream media has ever even faintly suggested. No-one has dared to draw these inferences even though they are based on facts, speeches, arithmetic, and policies which are conspicuous. None of this is even slightly secret. Why isn’t anyone saying the obvious, namely that we have been surrounded by a net of policy which – if drawn – will leave us high and dry on the deck of a boat called Rainbow.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t end there. The best is yet to come. There is even further terrifying evidence, which has nothing whatsoever to do with the Suidlanders, evidence which exists all by itself and which is indisputable, for the assertion that a number of pieces of law are being implemented which together will further encircle white land ownership in South Africa.
Those will be presented in a following article, and they promise to provide bitter food for thought. We strongly recommend that Suidlanders members contemplate the pressure which will be placed upon the entire white community if land expropriation quadruples – as the government expects it to do in fulfilment of the government’s historical commitment to seeing through the process of restoring as much land as possible to blacks, even land to which the traditional leaders (apparently) do not believe themselves entitled.
In the name of our Lord, we pray for a deepening and strengthening of your faith.
Frederick von Strass.