Genocide in South Africa?

[Darren]

" “It’s been a rough month,” says Jess.

Coming from a one-man mountain with more shrapnel scars than most, things must be looking bleak in South Africa.

And it’s worse than any of us can imagine. Eighty-four farm attacks since lockdown began, twelve white farmers slaughtered from their land. The footage of the aftermath of one of the attacks circulating on Telegram and sent to me — too brutal to share. Only monsters could do such things to the elderly in their own homes.

As many of us celebrated the 4th of July this weekend, there were three murders in two days, one of them so unspeakably cruel that even those hardened to the news of torture of farmers by black gangs have found themselves white-knuckled at the speed of the horror.

When these massive men like Jess feel it, we need to stop and listen. They are the first people I would run to if I needed protecting: strong, sturdy, unflinching. These strong South Africans are part of the land, they have it coursing throughout their blood just as the sunshine and water spills through the crops and trees on their soil.

Hearing the horrible news I want to grab my little daysack — sitting ready with my passport and power plugs — pull on my boots and go. I am desperate to head back to their country, somehow leap into the struggle and to help the murdered be heard. For now I share their pictures with you, hopelessly trying to reanimate them as individuals, instead of more bodies on a pile."

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/0 ... e-hopkins/

[MajGenl.Meade]

Durban - Since the start of 2020, KwaZulu-Natal has recorded 11 farm attacks and four farm murders new statistics show.

In 2019, the province recorded a total of 31 farm attacks and five murders. During the national lockdown, from March 27 to June 30, KwaZulu-Natal recorded seven farm attacks and two farm murders.

Across the country, 70 farm attacks and 13 farm murders were recorded. Prior to the lockdown, from December 29, 2019 to March 26, 2020, the country recorded 69 farm attacks and 12 farm murders.

Darren, did you by any chance bother to read about murders of blacks, and particularly of women (both white and black)? Attacks on isolated farms in rural areas are awful. But it's far from genocidal.

[BoSoxGal]

Thank you; I drafted a similar post but decided it was better coming from somebody else. Best coming from you, I think.

[liberty]

Can people in the rural areas own guns so that they can protect themselves?

[Joe Guy]

Can people in the rural areas own guns so that they can protect themselves?

No guns, but as you can see in this picture of Meade when he was younger and spent more time in the sun, they are allowed to have spears:

[MajGenl.Meade]

Can people in the rural areas own guns so that they can protect themselves?

Yes. Strict licensing laws but the old white farmers always have a gun in the house. I can tell you imagine this is some sort of Rorke's Drift scene. The tsotsis are coming and the farmer knows it. So up go the barricades and out comes the trusty rifle or handgun, ready to defend the homestead. That's not how it happens.

Thanks, Jo. I still have that rippling torso. It's in here, somewhere.