Apartheid returns to South Africa, yet no boycotts

News.com.au reports:

SOUTH 's parliament has voted in favour of a motion that will begin the process of amending the country's Constitution to allow for the confiscation of white-owned land without compensation.

This is the return of apartheid. A small minority in a country faces the theft of their property without compensation based purely on their skin colour.

Where are the global outcries and boycotts?

The motion was brought by Julius Malema, leader of the radical Marxist opposition party the Freedom Fighters, and passed overwhelmingly by 241 votes to 83 against.

Marxism – the only ideology that has basically destroyed every state that tries it!

ANC rural affairs Gugile Nkwinti added, “The ANC unequivocally supports the principle of land expropriation without compensation. There is no doubt about it, land shall be expropriated without compensation.”

They're proud of it.

Thandeka Mbabama from the Democatic Alliance party, which opposed the motion, said there was a need to right the wrongs of the past but expropriation “cannot be part of the solution”. “By arguing for expropriation without compensation, the ANC has been gifted the perfect scapegoat to explain away its own failure,” she said in a statement.

Anyone who thinks the problems in South Africa are caused by not stealing land off white farmers is demented. The problem is incompetence and corruption in the .

Mr Malema has been leading calls for land confiscation, forcing the ANC to follow suit out of fear of losing the support of poorer black voters. In 2016, he told supporters he was “not calling for the slaughter of white people‚ at least for now”.

Again where is the outrage when a party leader alludes to slaughtering people based on their race?

Civil rights groups have accused the EFF and ANC of inciting an ongoing spate of attacks on white farmers characterised by extreme brutality, rape and torture — last year, more than 70 people were killed in more than 340 such attacks.

So it isn't just talk.

Earlier this month, Louis Meintjes, president of the farmers' group the Transvaal Agricultural Union, warned the country risked going down the same route as Zimbabwe, which plunged into famine after a government-sanctioned purge of white farmers in the 2000s.

Yep.

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