Yes, I watched Lauren Southern's doc, and cried like a baby. It rings very true with me. My family had a farm, and it was just my ouma and my groot ouma (my grandmother and great-grandmother) who lived on the farm after my oupa (grandpa) died. They were attacked. These two tiny, strong willed, hard working, salt of the earth farming women were tied up in their small farm house, while some filthy bastards looted their already bare and meagrely furnished farmhouse. These are farmers. These are not millionaires. Luckily, they were not hurt, and we promptly sold the farm (we had to in order to buy them a small townhouse in the nearest town). I lost my heritage because of that. The place I grew up and dreamed of taking my kids to one day. It is so sad. Heart breaking. And much, much, more violence than is necessary in a "robbery" as they are being called.
I honestly say California as the lifestyle seems so similar to us here in Cape Town, but to be honest, we have not given it much thought, and have never even visited America.
Having said all this, South Africa is a beautiful, magical place, and I am convinced that there are enough people who live here that truly care to make a change.
So yes. I am glad Lauren is doing this series. I saw a fellow South African write how she is wasting her time doing this, and that there are better topics to cover. I truly believe this is a great topic to cover. These are families, being raped, and murdered, and yes, I do also believe that it may subconsciously be a plan to eradicate the farmers from their land. Guess what? It is working. We sold our farm. The farm that my family legitimately bought way back in 1840.
And now, I leave you with a light hearted farewell to that crummy bastard, Zuma.
Ok, I interact directly with three or four people from South Africa in my entire life, all in the last month, and one of them was directly affected by the farm lands issues. I would say it is a more than important enough to be discussing. At the end of the day it is about way more than that. She is getting at the systemic problems underlying the entire mess! I am sorry your family went through that and that you lost what cannot be gotten back.
I am glad people obviously understand what a waste of good breathing air Zuma was, I hope they come to the realization that a stand-in is not going to solve the problems. One wonders if it can get worse.
I think it can. The budget speech was the day before yesterday and there are plans to increase the welfare allowances. Not good. I don't want to end up like Venezuela