{"id":282933,"date":"2018-08-23T15:50:17","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T19:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=282933"},"modified":"2018-08-24T16:16:47","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T20:16:47","slug":"south-africa-is-indeed-looking-to-seize-farms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/08\/23\/south-africa-is-indeed-looking-to-seize-farms\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa Is Indeed Looking to Seize Farms!"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: There\u2019s another thing going on. We had the news the other day, Tucker Carlson mentioned it on his show the other night<\/a>, that the black government of South Africa has begun seizing white owned farms.<\/p>\n

So Trump was watching. Trump tweets that this shouldn\u2019t happen. Says it\u2019s very, very bad. He wants the secretary of state to look into this. So the Huffing and Puffington Post says Donald Trump sparks outrage by tweeting white nationalist talking point. So Trump is now back on the side of the alt-right white supremacists, the president of the United States has adopted a vile white supremacist hate narrative right out of the darkest corners of the internet, and it\u2019s turning it into policy.<\/p>\n

\"\"And so the Huffing and Puffington Post would like you to believe that what Trump said, what Tucker Carlson reported, and what I, your host, reported isn\u2019t happening and Trump is making it up because he\u2019s believing a bunch of white supremacists talking about it.<\/p>\n

Well, okay. From the Australian news service. “The South African government has begun the process of seizing land from white farmers<\/a>. Local newspaper City Press reports two game farms in the northern province of Limpopo are the first to be targeted for unilateral seizure after negotiations with the owners to purchase the properties stalled.” Okay. That\u2019s one story. And there\u2019s a second page to it.<\/p>\n

U.K. Express. “South Africa Farm Seizures Begin: Chaos as first expropriation of white-owned farms starts<\/a>.” The U.K. Express is not even a conservative publication, much less white supremacist.<\/p>\n

“South Africa\u2019s government has begun seizing land from white farmers, targeting two game farms in the northern province of Limpopo. … Johannesburg-based newspaper City Press reported owners Akkerland Boerdery wanted 200 million rand (\u00a316.7m) for the land, but that the country\u2019s government were willing to offer them just a tenth of that at 20 million rand (\u00a31.67m).”<\/p>\n

There was another story that proclaims it. But then there\u2019s a CBS story<\/a> which claims that none of this is true, that all that\u2019s happened so far is that the government of South Africa wants to do it! That the government of South Africa and the leader is looking into changing the Constitution to be able to do it. So they haven\u2019t begun, according to CBS just today. And Trump is wrong, the story at CBS says the president is wrong, the government of South Africa has not yet begun seizing farms. They only want to. And he goes on to give the reason!<\/p>\n

What do you think the reason is? The reason is white Afrikaaners charged into the Southern tip of Africa and basically colonialized it and took everything away from the indigenous peoples who, by the way, had not done anything with it. It had not been infrastructured, it had not been developed, it was just there. And the current South African president and the African National Congress are all claiming that the white population of South Africa is like 2%, 4%, but yet they own 78% of the farms. This is not gonna stand. This isn\u2019t right. And they\u2019re just gonna start taking it back.<\/p>\n

So Trump sees about it, hears about it, talks about it, here columns the Huffing and Puffington Post: Trump white nationalist.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Story here in the Washington Times. “South Africa Plan to Seize White-Owned Farms Could Destroy its Economy, Analysts Warn.<\/a>” Well, there\u2019s evidence for this. I mean, it happened in Zimbabwe. Quick. Do you know what Zimbabwe used to be? Exactly right. Zimbabwe used to be Rhodesia. And Robert Mugabe came in there, took it over, it became Zimbabwe. Did the same thing, basically just claimed all of the white-owned property and farms, turned it over to indigenous peoples, Africans, and now the Zimbabwean economy is — (interruption) I know, a rich nation to a starving nation is true. <\/p>\n

When they did this in Zimbabwe, people began to starve. They gave the farms to people eh know how to farm \u2019em! They gave the land to people that were not farmers, didn\u2019t know what to do with it. Had no idea how to use it. <\/p>\n

“South African economic analysts and U.S. observers say the country risks inviting the kind of devastation that left neighboring Zimbabwe\u2019s economy in ruins after a similar forced expropriation scheme targeting some of the country\u2019s most productive farmland.”<\/p>\n

I remember when it happened. I remember Mugabe doing it, and I remember the U.N. applauding it. I remember the American left applauding it. Let\u2019s see here. What are the numbers? In South Africa, whites make up 9% of the country\u2019s population. They own nearly 75% of the farmland and half of its urban property, according to a 2017 government audit. And that is being used as the justification for taking things. <\/p>\n