r/Documentaries • u/[deleted] • Mar 17 '18

South Africa - A Reversed Apartheid? (2018) - A documentary shining light on the white boer minority's current situation living in SA. Crowdfunded and made by a swedish political science major from the The Swedish Defence University.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEDU0xIILKA
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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '18 edited Mar 18 '18

Your last point is wrong. What they're trying to do in South Africa is reamend the constitution to allow for land to be expropriated from white farmers. There is no black person alive today who the land necessarily "belongs" to and theyre not making a specific effort to give it back to those people even if it did. Basically what this means is land is going to be taken from whites and given to black farmers, which does just about nothing for the impoverished, homeless black community and only makes an already rich community even richer. At best, these black farmers start producing food which white farmers might not have, but with the droughts going on that will take years before it comes right. There are better solutions out there, like sharing land amongst black and white farmers, but as it currently stands the proposal for land expropriation is bad no matter how you cut it.

There's a reason black farmers are being attacked as much as white farmers. It's because poor black people are the ones hurting the most from "stolen" farm land. Yet what the government is trying to do still wont help poor blacks, and so farmers will still be beaten, raped, and murdered en masse

Edit: To make matters worse, theyre not even returning stolen property or capital like you suggested they would. The amendment specifically only calls for land redistribution. Most of the theft that occured pre-1994 was property-based, so again this does nothing but harm the economy and race-relations.

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u/DarkCrawler_901 Mar 18 '18

White people own 70% of South African farmland. They are 10% of the population. It is a legacy of decades of exploitation and outright theft from people who are still alive, by people who are still alive.

I don't agree with the way Malema and other racist pieces of shit are going at it and I am more or less sure it will be stopped in the courts at the very least, but like on all other sectors of South African economy, the whites have the advantage and it is not fairly gained. Doesn't stop ANC from being useless and corrupt, of course.

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u/Fsypro Mar 18 '18

I didnt realize the people born 20 years ago are responsible for their ancestors exploitation. You wouldn't be justifying murder because of some form of original sin now would you? You people are actually pathetic. Öh sure a genocide is starting but their ancestors were MEAN, so its ok.

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u/rmch99 Mar 18 '18

justifying murder

He said literally nothing about murder in that comment.

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u/Fsypro Mar 18 '18

He said literally nothing about murder in that comment

That's the problem you monumental fucktard.

Yeah right cause his entire comment isn't about downplayng the atrocity of the GENOCID OF WHITE SOUTH AFRICANS. And pretending it isn't happen. I'm sorry but no ones that fucking stupid that they can convince themselves he isn't justifying the genocide.

His entire post is literally a defense of the genocide. Devoid of any context of, changing laws, compensation, or the literal government calling for the genocide of White Farmers. This is all reality, a reality he chose not to share to make it seem like the white farmers aren't being disproportionately and specifically targeted.

It's a fucking disgusting post on the level of people who buried their head in the sand over the Rwanda genocide.