Mess with your farmers and your country will go quickly from being a bread basket to a basket case. Look at Zimbabwe.
Picture for illustration. Karookom farm in the Free State is pictured, 1 April 2020. Picture: Tracy Lee Stark
While the focus has been on the Covid-19 crisis, farm attacks have been increasing – and they pose a serious threat to the long-term security of South Africa. Just yesterday, news emerged that Julian Stobbs, a well-known activist for the legalisation of cannabis, was murdered during a robbery at his smallholding and business at Lanseria, north of Joburg.
Freedom Front Plus leader Pieter Groenewald had a more ominous assessment of the silence from the president, saying: “It appears the president dare not ask that farmers be protected against crime because then he will also have to ask that farmers’ property must be protected. That contradicts the policy of land expropriation without compensation.”
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