South Africa continues ethnic cleansing White farmers

South Africa’s Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development issued a new notice this month restricting agricultural export permits to farms which have a minimum amount of Black ownership and employment.

Although Whites comprise just over 7% of South Africa’s population, the African National Congress (ANC) government has passed laws to ensure “Black Economic Empowerment” (BEE), particularly in the agriculture industry (AgriBEE).

Farmers with an annual revenue of 10 million rand ($534,000) or more who wish to export goods to the United States or Europe must apply for a permit. The application process requires farmers to fill out AgriBEE Scorecards in which they demonstrate whether they meet certain racial targets in ownership, management, and skills development. Each target is weighted with points, and farmers who score high are eligible for an export permit.

For example, an agricultural business whose board is at least 50% Black receives two points. Another point is awarded if 25% of the board are Black women. The company will receive two more points if Blacks comprise 75% of middle management and another point if 38% are Black females.

The law sidelines indigenous White farmers — called Afrikaners, or Boers, in Afrikaans — who comprise most of the White South African population and have been a longstanding target of the ANC.

In May ANC officials proposed race-based water quotas as citizens face a dangerous shortage. Water Minister Senzo Mchunu drafted a law to regulate the country’s water — 60% of which is used for farming — based on skin color.

According to the proposed law, businesses in agriculture, mining and forestry who want to use more than 250,000 cubic meters of water must have at least 25% Black ownership to qualify for a water use license. Those who need more than 500,000 cubic meters require at least 50% Black ownership, and businesses using over a million cubic meters need at least 75% Black ownership to receive a license.

Boers, who are often destitute, are repeatedly attacked violently by Black supremacist supporters of the ANC.

Since taking power, the ANC advocated for Blacks to own more land which would bring more economic and political security. This idea took on a radical tone when Julius Malema, the founder of a militant ANC spin-off organization called Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) began urging Blacks to seize land from Whites.

According to a report by AfriForum published in March, there were 333 reported attacks on Afrikaner farms last year and 50 murders. The numbers are down from 2021, which saw 415 farm attacks and 55 murders. Only 33% of murder suspects have been arrested and convicted.

“Unfortunately, it is not clear whether the number of attacks actually decreased seeing as more and more cases are never reported to the police. I don’t think the public’s trust in the police has ever been as low as it is now,” said AfriForum Community Safety spokesman Jacques Broodryk.

In addition to murders, hundreds of thousands of destitute Boer Afrikaners who live in large squatter camps also face death from cholera and other diseases wrought by poor sanitation and water supply. Aid workers have blamed the disease-related deaths on intentional neglect by local ANC councils.

"Every year, these brave descendants of the proud Boer people have to fight court battles against evictions by town and city councils everywhere,” said aid worker Gideon van Deventer, according to Israel National News. 

"Sometimes these councils employ sly tactics, like charging the destitute for allegedly contravening all sorts of obscure council regulations, which is clearly a form of harassment and intimidation, as they own nothing, are clearly indigent, and can by no means be perceived as a threat to the mighty ANC in any form whatsoever.

"The ANC council and government policies of 'blacks first' will eventually be their ruin, especially if this case turns into an epidemic or a human rights disaster," van Deventer said.

This grim picture of Afrikaner life — particularly the farm murders — is said to be carefully constructed by the ANC, which some say intends to eliminate the White race from South Africa. 

In his memoirs, political veteran Mario Oriani-Ambrosini recalls a conversation he once had with South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa in the 1990s during negotiations for a new South African constitution:

In his brutal honesty, Ramaphosa told me of the ANC’s 25- year strategy to deal with the whites: it would be like boiling a frog alive, which is done by raising the temperature very slowly. Being cold-blooded, the frog does not notice the slow temperature increase, but if the temperature is raised suddenly, the frog will jump out of the water. He meant that the black majority would pass laws transferring wealth, land, and economic power from white to black slowly and incrementally, until the whites lost all they had gained in South Africa, but without taking too much from them at any given time to cause them to rebel or fight.

But mainstream news outlets and journalists dismiss the possibility of a White genocide as a “far-right conspiracy theory” and deny that rampant hate attacks on Afrikaner farms are a significant problem. This was exacerbated by President Donald Trump’s directive in 2018 in which he ordered Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to investigate the farm murders perpetrated against White Boer Afrikaners following a report by Fox News on the issue.