What is happening in South Africa is quite tragic, especially since no side can win in this senseless conflict. Everyone loses when White farmers are dispossessed of their land.
As we have seen in neighbouring Zimbabwe, when farms are forcefully taken from Whites, subdivided and the parcels handed over to the ‘landless’ Blacks, productivity nosedives. Less food means food prices skyrocket, thus making the Blacks poorer, since most will depend on purchased foodstuffs.
The major problem - and this the biggest culprit in this conflict - is not incitement from bigoted politicians. It is the lack of free media, including social media. The media is biased. And social media, including Facebook, Twitter etc. are also biased, not only against the White farmers, but also against the Blacks, because they deliberately shut out or devalue opinion highlighting the folly of farm invasions.
If the media, including international media, was not biased, people in South Africa and elsewhere would have access to information highlighting the fact that farm subdivisions greatly lower productivity. In addition, the people would know that the solution to widespread poverty in Africa is not every citizen being given a few acres of land - land that they cannot utilise in a productive manner.
The solution is access to decent housing, clean water, affordable education and health services. But since local politicians don’t want to be held accountable when they fail to provide these basic services, they resort to incitement, lying to the people that if they each had some few hectares of land, they would be swimming in cash.
Whoever controls the tools of information is responsible for the South African crisis. This includes the big media houses in South Africa and internationally, and the oligarchs controlling world media, social media and related platforms.
This is why I support Paul Nehlen’s ‘Shall Not Censor’ (proposed) legislation. I hope such legislation could be enacted worldwide, so that media and search giants can be forced to become unbiased, so that users can have access to differing opinions so they can make informed judgement.
Certainly, if such legislation existed, the South African farm invasions would probably not have occurred.
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STOPAfter your comment at my post (you see, they are right, commenting intelligently on other posts is a good way to becoming known - and maybe popular) I checked your blog:comments and I see you are entering steemit with a strong bias/preference for political articles.
That is good and I wish more people would do so, but the poor showing of interest on platforms like this one where we do have freedom, just goes to show that it is not only the media and social services which suppress the truth; it is also the need for instant gratification that has swept the world and the lack of interest in reading any articles that require that we try to think for ourselves.
Publish cartoons and memes and the number of visitors you get will shoot up in numbers.
Don't stop trying, it is the only way we can save ourselves.
I like your excellent analysis and insight. I will soon delve into the world of memes and cartoons and see how it goes.
Hi there, thank you for the great post. More needs to be done to shed light on SA's situation.
This is a video we've done on the monument to the murdered farmers in South Africa:
https://steemit.com/video/@boerrepublic/uweg2g27
Please check it out and resteem if possible.
Thanks