South Africa Accelerates on Road to Zimbabwe

Don’t look now, Zimbabwe, but South Africa is catching up to you fast in the race to replace the last vestiges of colonialism with social justice:

With food prices becoming increasingly onerous for many if not most South Africans, the latest report on farm murders by the Transvaal Agricultural Union and AfriForum makes for disturbing reading – although there are a few positive trends being noted. According to a 2015 World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) study 95 percent of the country’s formal sector food is produced by just 3% of the country’s farmers and the government’s antipathy to white farmers and its proposed policies are driving an increasing number of them to leave the country. Thousands of farms are up for sale. Vast swathes of once productive farm land now lie fallow as a result of the ANC’s failed land reform policies and Rural Development and Land Reform Minister Gugile Nkwinti candidly acknowledges that the billions of rands spent in the past two decades have reduced food security because 90% of the farms re-distributed to black farmers are no longer productive.

Anyone familiar with what happened to neighboring Zimbabwe, the former Breadbasket of Africa become economic basket case, will get déjà vu from what is going on in South Africa now:

Since the beginning of the year 70 people have been murdered in 345 farm attacks and those attacks are becoming ever more sophisticated, military-style raids. …

The Transvaal Agricultural Union has tracked farm murders since 1990 and, during this time, 1848 people have been murdered in farm attacks. According to TAU statistics this number included 1187 farmers, 490 members of their families, 147 farm employees and 24 visitors to these farms who found themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time. …

[Assistant general manager of the TAU Chris van] Zyl said he was troubled by his perception that the SAPS [South African Police Service] crime intelligence unit played no significant role in curbing farm attacks.

What was also troubling, he said, was that the poisoning of stock and threats of illegal farm occupations were increasing.

Western Civilization has flourished in South Africa since the Dutch established a settlement at what is now Cape Town in 1652. That is ending now. First came moonbattery. Next comes this:

On a tip from ABC of the ANC.