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Feb 17

My father took a loan and bought a small piece of farmland in the North West Province near Putfontein area. On the farm me and my sisters were born.
My father worked the land, paid off his loan, and bought more land. After school I worked the land full time with my father. We planted corn, had a dairy, beef cows, and chickens.
The land next to us was owned by Setswana black people. After the Boer war vs England, Paul Kruger gave that land to the blacks that helped and took care of the Boers cattle.
The National Party expropriated the land from them, and relocated them close to Mafikeng (not without compensation), and gave the land to white commercial farmers. 13 farmers turned the land into top productive units. In the 1990’s government expropriated the land again, with compensation, and settled the black tribes back on the land. Today, on the +-6000ha, some of my friends are renting back the land and plant maize, sunflowers and soya.

Crime picked up in the area, they stole our cattle, cattle fencing got expropriated, farm-attacks in the area picked up. Some of our family got attacked. So we sold our land and moved to the Eastern Cape Province to a safer area where I raised my children.There we build up a a 10300 acre sheep/cattle farm, producing beef cattle, karoo lamb, and exported wool. 2022 I bought farmland near Grahamstown, where we produced Macadamia nuts, beef cattle and game breeding.
Then they stole our cattle, poached our zebras and animals. Set snare traps almost daily. Another friend of mine got attack close to us near the Fish River. They stole all my equipment and tools, chainsaws, welder and grinder.
So, I sold that farm and bought new land in the Western Cape.

Attached are some pics of what I produced as a commercial farmer over the years. We have employed many people and still do. We work hard together with our black farm workers on the farms, and always had a good relationship. The hate is driven by the ANC and EFF. Boers just want to farm in peace.

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@twatterbaas

Jan 25

🇿🇦South Africa:
The government spent billions on ‘land reform’ and gave black beneficiaries millions of hectares of land the last 30 years. Farms that were built and developed by white farmers. 90% of those farms failed, (see source in thread). It clearly is not working. On their own tribal lands (top fertile lands), where they have stayed for hundreds of years, there is till Today almost zero commercial farming are done.

You are born a farmer. You can’t force it. Expropriating without compensation is THEFT. No other word for it, and it will be disastrous for everyone in Southern Africa.

See for yourself how it is going on some of these farms(Thread..)
Left:
Green carpets of irrigated fields at Dawn Valley and Ponderosa farms in 2009.
Right:
A 2021 satellite image of the same farms just over a decade later, shows large cultivated areas lying fallow or reverting to thornveld.

Left:
Irrigated fields of potatoes and other vegetables at Dawn Valley farm in 2002, six years before the land claim settlement
Right:
A satellite image of the same fields in 2022

Left:
The Nhlamvini bush lodge
Right:
The gutted remains of Nhlamvini bush lodge today.

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@twatterbaas

Aug 10, 2023

“Kill the Boer” written with their blood on the walls.

Helen Lotter, 57, and her mother Alice, 76 were tortured to death with broken beer bottles in their anuses and vaginas - the attack had been so horrendous that the post-mortem examiner was unable to find any of Helen’s

sexual organs at all; her breasts were were partially cut off and broken bottle-shards were inserted in her vagina and anus as part of the hours of torture she and her mother Alice had endured -her cervix and uterus were completely shredded. The mother's front teeth were bashed

out; her entire body was 'covered in in bruises, chafing and stabbing wounds. Her sexual parts were mutilated extensively also internally. The old farm woman had died due to 'asphyxiation after breathing in blood from penetrating stabbing wounds in her neck and throat'. They were

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@twatterbaas

Aug 6, 2023

#SouthAfrica
I dare you to read and share a farmers wife story Today-

'We felt like wild animals being hunted'

A woman and her family - who survived a horrific farm attack in which she was raped twice, shot in the buttocks and forced to beg for her children's lives to be spared

"My great-grandfather, grandfather and father were all farmers. I married a farmer whose family have farmed their land for three generations.
"It is with deep sadness that I stand before you today and say that neither of my sons will want to farm in South Africa.

"For 17 years, I had the privilege of raising my three children on a beautiful citrus farm. They swam in the rivers and played in the orchards. They grew up free and fearless as all children should. Little did we know that our every move was being watched. An attack was being

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