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251 posts and 55 image replies omitted.>>2788037
Nkhruma and Sankara weep
>>2788037
this is a troll or glowie making up shit
There's a jihadi Tet Offensive going down in Mali. JNIM and their Tuareg allies are overrunning towns and cities (Sevare, Kidal, Gao) in different parts of the country. Also Kati which is outside Bamako and apparently inside Bamako. There's also talk that that defense minister's house was attacked.
Are our wholesome anti-imperialist juntas gonna get fucked bros
go give me the 10 bulletpoint update and who is our guy and what the fuck is going on with mali
who funds the jihadis? Wasnt Wagner there to defend against them or something?
>>2792436bulletpoint update is not an african value, but a western degeneracy
Some italian maoist org in 2017 said the islamic state was anti-imperialist so this is actually a anti-imperialist-anti-imperialist-inter-conflict
>>2792559I never said I am not a degenerate western man. Okay, maybe a good article explaining the situation?
>>2792439Wagner are extremly incompetent and failing to beat the Jihadis, the Jihadis were helped by Ukraine for a bit, but most of their support is local, they're winning because Mali and Wagner is corrupt.
>>2793010https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20260426-new-fighting-erupts-in-north-mali-s-kidal-as-army-clashes-with-rebelsMali is withdrawing from some key cities, the end of this war is probably a de facto independant islamic state in Northern Mali, don't think they'll be able to take the rest of the country.
>>2793448>Wagner are extremly incompetent and failing to beat the Jihadis, the Jihadis were helped by Ukraine for a bit, but most of their support is local, they're winning because Mali and Wagner is corrupt.wagner (actually its called africa corps now) is mostly light infantry, the problem isnt that they're incompetent or corrupt (although they likely are, given they're mercenaries fucks), the problem is they dont have much heavy equipment or air support and arent many (and the most skilled guys prolly were kept in russia for the war). They're a small support force mostly there to help with shit like training or radio jamming
And I suspect france is helping the jihadist too. Just after france was kicked out mali had managed to retake kidal, a feat french military never helped with, and now they're becoming stronger and striking back and there were report of ukrainians helping them out, so its safe to assume the west empire is backing them as retaliation for the sahel states giving them the boot and nationalizing shit.
>the end of this war is probably a de facto independant islamic state in Northern Malithats the situation since more than a decade at this point
>>2796697This really has the potential to snowball into something much larger, there are already insurrections in other Sahel countries, no one is going to do anything to save them is Russia can't. Libya, next door, is still divided, and there is a large muslim population across the Sahel that are disfavored and discriminated against and that might be convinced to join Al Qaeda/Isis, there is also no international appetite to do anything about it.
Ghana parliament passes anti-LGBTQ+ billThe parliament in Ghana has approved a new bill criminalising homosexuality and the promotion of LGBTQ+ activities.
Identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual transgender or queer can be punished by up to three years' imprisonment. The bill also introduces a "duty to report" prohibited acts to police.
Religious leaders have pressured President John Dramani Mahama, who still needs to ratify the legislation, to strengthen anti-gay laws since he came to power last year.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yedendprkoSenegal approves tougher anti-gay law as rights groups raise concernsSenegal's parliament has approved a new law doubling to 10 years the maximum prison term for sexual acts by same-sex couples and criminalising the "promotion" of homosexuality.
The measure was supported by 135 MPs, none voted against it while three abstained. The next step will be for the president to sign it into law.
The legislation, which was a campaign promise of President Bassirou Diomaye Faye and Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko, was sent to parliament after a wave of arrests over alleged same-sex relationships, already banned under Senegalese law.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp857gy1843o https://youtu.be/Racjd5A8IDgmany years ago in the early era of youtube i found this documentary called haschisch about a community of rural hash farmers in morocco and it was pretty fascinating, it shows them doing the work of growing and harvesting weed and processing it into hash and selling it to smugglers to scrape out a meager living, hanging out and smoking in their off hours, very candid and authentic interviews with the various people involved in the operation where they just say whatever is on their minds. it's an interesting look into a community of people who live and operate in this unique sort of clandestine interzone between the industrial capitalist western world and the agrarian world of their ancestors. it's a true documentary done in a style you don't see so much anymore, it has no artificial narrative arc or narration of any kind, no corny emotional musical score to manipulate you into feeling a certain way, it's just life captured onto film.
despite the title it goes a bit deeper than just being a documentary about hash farming, particularly in the interview segments where you hear from all these people of different generations and their respective views and outlooks on life. the younger people seem to be a lot more restless and ambitious and disillusioned with this way of life and they have this very idealized view of modern western society and they talk about how they want to leave morocco and go to europe and go to university and have professional careers and stuff like that, one of them talks about his many failed attempts to illegally immigrate through the underground human trafficking network from the middle east into europe and how difficult and dangerous it is.
the middle aged guy who seems to be the boss of the whole operation comes across as somewhat disillusioned with it as well but ultimately resigned to it because a lot of people depend on him and he's been doing this for a long time and it's all he knows and he's not in a position to try to change and do something else with his life, he talks about the burdens and risks and the stress of running the business and how much work is involved and the hassles of motivating his workers because the younger ones just want to get out and try to run off to europe and the older ones like to partake in the product and just hang out and get high rather than work and he himself doesn't even smoke anymore because he's too busy and it interferes with his ability to work and keep the business together.
the most interesting person i think is this old guy who kind of comes across as the wise village elder and has a sort of sage-like personality and he just sits and smokes his hash pipe and talks about philosophy and the state of the world and freedom and the human condition. during his monologue at the end of the film he talks to the filmmaker directly and cites the story of the prophet solomon who could talk to birds and the birds would carry his message across the world, making the point that the filmmaker and others like him in western society are sort of like solomon, that they are free in a way that people in africa are not, that they have the ability to make contact with people all over the world and they have the opportunity to build something new, some new idea that could benefit everyone, and that this is the only way for things in the world to truly change, that when people are cut off from one another their paths are also cut off and they cannot move, but when people join hands across the world they can move.
it's very interesting to hear these kinds of ideas coming directly from the minds of ordinary everyday people who aren't prestigious academics or writers or political figures or anything like that, they don't really have much formal education, probably don't have a lot of book knowledge beyond the sacred texts of their religious traditions that everyone in their society is familiar with, yet they have a very deep understanding of the fundamental nature of the world and human affairs that is very organically formed through many years of life experience and many hours of earnest conversation and contemplative meditation in a world that has very few distractions, where there is nothing to do but work very hard all day and then spend time with your family and friends or meditate by yourself when the work is over.
>>2811993>there is also no international appetite to do anything about itwhat do you mean, the french are hard at work to help the islamists win (although they only want to be seen with the tuaregs azawad guys allied with them, easier for the narrative). they sent a bunch of foreign legion ukrainians with their drones to help fuck mali, everything going as planned for them.
>>2827690>yet they have a very deep understanding of the fundamental nature of the world and human affairs doubt, I bet they mostly have some platitudes and usual spiritualist bs to offer in the end. Just cause they arent idiots and can articulate some ideas doesnt mean theres "deep understanding".
still look interesting, might watch it later
Niger military junta introduces new penal code criminalizing homosexuality with 5-10 years in prisonThe new penal code punishes anyone who “commits or attempts to commit an immodest or unnatural act or practices lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans-gender, Queer, intersex, Asexual (LGBTQIA+) acts” with between five and 10 years in prison and a fine, according to the text of the new penal code.
“This same penalty is applicable to persons who officiated the marriage, to the witnesses of the alleged spouses, as well as to persons who have given their consent for the celebration of the marriage and to the organizers,” the new penal code said.
https://apnews.com/article/niger-homosexuality-criminalized-penal-code-junta-459e5bf803c32a0bc1c709d14aa3b070 US 'pro-family' group worked with Senegal activists pushing anti-LGBT lawSenegalese proponents of a tougher anti-LGBT law discussed campaign strategy and mobilization tactics with a U.S.-based "pro-family" group that calls homosexuality a public health threat, activists in both countries told Reuters.
The U.S. group MassResistance, known for its work at home pushing legislation against same-sex marriage and denouncing "the transgender war on cultural norms", has advised like-minded African activists for years.
But now it is trying to take advantage of what it sees as a more restrictive approach by U.S. President Donald Trump's administration towards the rights of same-sex couples. Beyond Senegal, it has been involved in recent advocacy supporting a proposed new anti-LGBT law in Ghana.
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/society-equity/us-pro-family-group-worked-with-senegal-activists-pushing-anti-lgbt-law-2026-03-16/ African lawmakers back push for tougher anti-LGBT laws after Ghana conferenceLawmakers from more than a dozen African countries have pledged to push new bills restricting LGBT rights, after a conference in Ghana that brought together self-described "pro-family" activists from across Africa and Europe, participants said.
Organisers said lawmakers from 20 countries attended the conference held at Ghana's parliament. It was unclear how many intend to introduce new legislation based on the discussions.
Speakers included Henk Jan van Schothorst, the Dutch executive director of the advocacy group Christian Council International. He urged African governments to resist pressure to ban so-called conversion therapy, which aims to make gay people straight.
"These policies are not only reserved for the Netherlands and for Europe. They are coming to Africa," he said of the bans, describing them as "ideological colonisation" by Western powers.
At the Accra conference, Ugandan former lawmaker Sarah Opendi welcomed the shift. "Let us first thank the American people for voting for President Trump. The conversation in America today is different," she said.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/african-lawmakers-back-push-tougher-anti-lgbt-laws-after-ghana-conference-2026-06-19/ >>2843829the most damning thing here is that this works for the togolese government and the african union which means they either don't care about countries in africa being dismembered to please israel or they're extremely incompetent
Does anyone have any good sources on South Africa and SA politics?
>>2853511
Definitely TRUE and VERY believable.
>>2846409SA news-media is pretty decent, just look through it for what you want. Otherwise though you'll have to be more specific what you want.
>>2853515Yeah I can't believe the private military contractors named after a Third Reich unit made up of the dregs of Russian society who are running blood gold mines would be fascists and do warcrimes. How utterly unbelievable.
>>2853772Who do you think is backing the Tuaregs, and why do you think they'd try to trigger your knee jerk reaction against the forces of a government that recently kicked out the Nato forces occupying it, you fucking dipshit?
>>2855136Thank you AES ally UAE for this gift to the african peoples!
Soon the the AES Egyptian military will critically escort the IDF into the last districts of Palestine to crush terrorism and safeguard peace and harmony under the PLO two state solution!
Nigeria says 2 nationals were killed during anti-migrant violence in South AfricaNigeria said Sunday that two of its nationals were killed last month in South Africa following violent anti-immigrant protests targeting African workers in the country.
The Nigerians were killed June 28, two days before an unofficial deadline by protesters for foreigners to leave, the Nigerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. One was allegedly killed by police officers and the other by unidentified attackers, it said.
https://apnews.com/article/nigeria-south-africa-antimigrant-violence-5448f808e7830b254de8c70038c08af7 Tanzania’s LNG project nears deal for US$42 billionTanzania is approaching one of the most important moments in its energy history. The government hopes to finalize the agreement with the host government for the Tanzania LNG project before mid-2026, an initiative valued at approximately $42 billion that seeks to develop vast natural gas reserves located off its coast.
The project is led by Equinor and Shell, who act as main operators, and also involves ExxonMobil, Pavilion Energy, Medco Energi and the state-owned Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation (TPDC).
https://inspenet.com/en/news/tanzanian-lng-project-advances-agreement/Tanzania says no to US specimen sharing, but concerns remainDar es Salaam. Tanzania says it did not agree to provide biological specimens to the United States under a new five-year health partnership under the America First Global Health Strategy (AFGHS), but major questions about the deal remain unanswered.
Health Minister Mohammed Mchengerwa has clarified that provisions requiring Tanzania to share biological specimens were not accepted during negotiations.
But the full agreement has not been made public.
https://www.thecitizen.co.tz/tanzania/news/national/tanzania-says-no-to-us-specimen-sharing-but-concerns-remain-5518462 Why the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history is becoming more challenginghttps://wtop.com/national/2026/07/why-the-fastest-growing-ebola-outbreak-in-history-is-becoming-more-challenging/
>The Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo is now the fastest-growing one in history with over 1,000 people dead, and new challenges are emerging in containing a type of the virus with no approved treatment or vaccine.
>Strikes by unpaid workers at health centers at the heart of the outbreak could light the flame for others in a remote region already suffering from bare-bones infrastructure, rebel threats and misinformation asserting that the deadly virus isn’t real.
>The director-general of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Jean Kaseya, said Wednesday that 1,031 deaths have been confirmed. The outbreak is mostly concentrated in remote Ituri province, which accounts for nearly 90% of cases, but cases have been confirmed in five provinces, including one of Congo’s largest cities, Kisangani.
>Responders are struggling to understand how far Ebola has spread, and how bad the outbreak might become. Last month, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention researchers used computer modeling and found that in a worst-case scenario, this could approach the worst Ebola outbreak in history — the West Africa epidemic in 2014-2016 that caused more than 11,000 deaths.
>The vast majority of new cases are emerging from unknown chains of transmission, the World Health Organization has said. The outbreak’s origin is still not known.
>Here’s a look at the outbreak and the growing effort to contain it.
<Rare type of Ebola
>The Ebola outbreak is caused by the rare Bundibugyo virus, which contributed to a costly delay in confirming the outbreak as lab tests were performed for the more common type instead.
>Ebola is highly contagious and spreads in the human population through contact with bodily fluids such as vomit, blood or semen, and with contaminated surfaces and materials such as bedding and clothing.
>Traditional funerals in which loved ones wash and prepare bodies have been restricted, which has angered some residents and contributed to the hostility that some health workers have faced.
>Ebola is rare but severe and often fatal. Symptoms include fever, vomiting, diarrhea, muscle pain and at times internal and external bleeding. Outbreaks often occur in remote villages in Central Africa, near rainforests. This is the 17th known Ebola outbreak in Congo, and experts have said the country is well-placed to apply lessons learned.
>But it’s hard to imagine more difficult circumstances for an outbreak like this. The shortage of supplies like protective gear is just one challenge.
<The outbreak is occurring in a volatile, violent region
>Associated Press journalists have witnessed the aftermath of attacks on health centers by a wary, highly mobile population that has long been traumatized by armed groups.
>Outsiders can be looked upon with suspicion, and community outreach teams have worked to spread the word about Ebola prevention measures in the face of abuse and accusations that the outbreak is a scam.
>Part of the outbreak is unfolding in a major city and humanitarian hub, Goma, that rebels backed by neighboring Rwanda seized over a year ago, further complicating the response.
>Now there is unrest among local Ebola responders themselves after weeks of risky crisis work and little or no pay from the Congolese government. Some staff have gone on strike at treatment centers and blocked access. Striking staffers included epidemiologists, case investigators, drivers and gravediggers. Some later agreed to resume work under the condition that the government pays them soon.
>A labor strike that spreads to more overstretched and underequipped facilities would be another serious blow to Ebola containment efforts. Congolese officials have said they are in talks to find a solution.
<The first participants are enrolled in a treatment study
>The strikes come at a vulnerable time. Researchers have begun a study of two possible Ebola treatments, enrolling local participants at an Ebola treatment center in Ituri province.
>One is Gilead Sciences’ remdesivir, a broad-acting antiviral approved to treat COVID-19 that has shown some hints in lab tests that it may help fight the Bundibugyo virus. The other is Mapp Biopharmaceutical’s experimental MBP134, antibodies engineered to target Ebola viruses, including Bundibugyo.
>The WHO has said patients will be randomly assigned to receive today’s best standard of care as well as remdesivir, MBP134, both or neither.
>The United Nations body has warned it could take months and possibly as many as 1,000 study participants to tell if either drug works. > mostly service-based consumer market
> capital accumulation pathways are real-estate, finance, services, and resource enclosure..
> very weak local industrial production
> yet half the population is urbanised
> thoroughly exploited proletariat, on the local scale through the usual labor exploitation, and on the global scale through imperial extraction
> informal labor and informal financing are prolific
> banking and credit and income tax schemes, as well as labor protections and social safety nets, haven't fully penetrated the workforce
> raw material exports and maybe tourism make the largest slice of national income
> second largest probably migrants sending back money home, making use of purchase power disparity
> strong police/military government subservient to foreign capitalist powers interests
> fragmented workforce thanks to mass migration
> and a significant portion of them are aspiring to leave the country more than to improve it
> extreme social conservatism, sponsored by the state to maintain soft order without mass consent
> reduced manual labor, majority of laborers are doing desk jobs
> rapidly emerging class of individualized "freelancers" and "remote workers"
> those have much lower labor protections and ability to organize
> but also have non-traditional and abstracted labor relations with their employer-clients. plus sometimes unusually high compensation (in relative terms, much lower than foreign employer's baseline) propped up by aforementioned disparity
which theory best analyzes and addresses these observations?
>Angolan prosecutors said Lakshtanov and Ratchin wanted to influence next year’s presidential elections, including by funding Angola’s largest opposition party, the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), or by forcing a leadership change within the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), which has ruled the country since independence from Portugal in 1975.crazy
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/23/two-russian-men-jailed-angola-terrorism-and-spying How Mexican drug cartels have outsourced meth labs to NigeriaThe Nigerian judge was formally dressed, the lawyers maintained legal decorum and protocol was followed – but this hearing was not in the comfortable confines of a Lagos courtroom, it was inside an alleged illicit drug laboratory in the thick of a dense forest.
Three Mexicans and seven Nigerians were paraded in handcuffs, as Justice Musa Kakaki inspected the chemicals and equipment they were accused of using to produce the harmful illegal synthetic drug, methamphetamine, commonly known as meth, crystal meth or, locally, ice.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crmrnxp4nllo
>bandits>islamist insurgency >latent separatists >and now drug cartelsIs Nigeria just doomed to collapse?
A Thin Rope Holds the Line Against Ebola on Uganda’s BorderUganda has developed a global reputation for its efficiency in containing infectious diseases, including H.I.V., Covid-19 and Ebola. While the disease is raging through communities in Congo, Uganda appears to have it under control.
There have been 20 confirmed Ebola cases in Uganda thus far, but the country has not registered a new case in more than a month. Fifteen of those patients came across the border, some to seek treatment in Ugandan hospitals. Aside from two patients who died, the rest have recovered. The others were quarantined and released, the authorities said this month. Bundibugyo has not recorded a single infection in this outbreak.
“They know how to handle it,” said Dr. Wessam Mankoula, who leads the country’s Ebola response unit at the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, referring to Ugandan health officials.
The effect of that expertise in Bundibugyo is to see life carry on as normal, despite the threat just across the river, which is often shallow enough to ford.
Schools, shops and offices here remain open, though hand-washing stations have been set up at the entrances to public places. Teams play soccer on the field beside the town’s government offices every evening. No one in the town wears a mask.
https://archive.is/yYbLF A Mother’s Crusade to Rid South Africa of African ImmigrantsOn a Saturday in May, Ms. Khoza joined a group of about 50 people who marched down a residential street near her neighborhood. Their goal was to raid a home they said had been overrun by illegal Congolese immigrants.
The mob used bolt cutters to break through the driveway gate. They banged on the doors and jostled the burglar bars on the windows. The house was dark and seemed empty.
A few minutes later, the mob breached the front door. Teary-eyed children emerged from a dark corridor, hustling out of the house, shivering.
“We are sorry,” some of them squealed.
Their mother, Sandra, an immigrant from the Democratic Republic of Congo, shuffled out in shock as she cradled her youngest child in a blanket, a two-week-old baby. Tall with her hair braided in cornrows, Sandra’s eyes welled with tears as she confronted the angry crowd.
Ms. Khoza has been watching with envy clips of U.S. immigration agents raiding American streets to capture and deport illegal immigrants under the Trump administration.
“The government here should be doing exactly what Trump is doing,” she said, “so that South Africa can have order and South Africans are put first.”
Ms. Khoza said the defense of her own children went hand-in-hand with her effort to rid South Africa of immigrants. Last year, she explained to her eldest daughter, Owethu, that foreign nationals were taking over their country.
“I am a victim,” Owethu, 17, said in an interview, adding that she sees her mother and others like her as being on a noble pursuit.
https://archive.is/TrUMO >>2880399The Afrikaners Trump is filling my neighborhood with would probably like to see Ms Khosa tossed out of "their country" along with all the rest.
>>2880406i'm surprised afrikaners and zionists haven't found a way to embed themselves in these anti-immigrant protests (as far as i know)
How white farmers still dominate land ownership in South Africa in spite of land reform – new research
https://theconversation.com/how-white-farmers-still-dominate-land-ownership-in-south-africa-in-spite-of-land-reform-new-research-285507
>More than 30 years after South Africa achieved democracy it remains one of the world’s most unequal countries. The democratic transition has not produced the transfer in wealth and ownership from a white minority to Black majority population that many had hoped for.
>Land is at the centre of the debates about this lack of transfer of wealth. During apartheid, because of racist laws around land ownership, Black South Africans could only own land in 13% of the country’s territory even when they made up 80% of the population.
>In 1995, the government set an initial target to redistribute 30% of all white-owned land to Black farmers under a market-based programme, which ensured the white farmers could choose whether to sell their land and did so at or above market value. But only between 12% and 20% of the land has been redistributed so far.
>For the last seven years, I have studied the land reform programme as a political scientist, merging my knowledge of political, social and economic forces to better understand why land reform has failed to live up to its initial goals.
>In a recent paper I set out to gain a deeper understanding of how land reform occurred and under what conditions transfers of land from white to Black farmers had taken place. To do this, I looked at both sides of the process.
>On the one hand, I examined what motivated existing landholders to transfer land, including economic incentives to keep farms productive and social factors shaped by the legacy of apartheid and segregation. On the other hand, I looked at the forces driving demand for land reform, including land claims and pressure from landless people.
>I held in-depth conversations with established white commercial farmers and Black land reform farmers, asking white farmers why they had sold their farms for the purposes of land reform, or why they had refrained from doing so. I then asked Black farmers about their experiences as emerging farmers in South Africa.
>I found that landowners’ decisions were shaped by South Africa’s history of racial segregation. Some white farmers used land redistribution to create a buffer between their farms and neighbouring Black communities. Others, in areas with many Black farmers, used land redistribution to bring Black farmers into their farming businesses.
>My findings show that where land ownership is very unequal, land redistribution doesn’t always reduce old divides. In some cases, it can actually reinforce them.
>These findings are important because the powerful US government has recently taken strong action against the South African government, with US president Donald Trump publicly and wrongly accusing the land reform programme of persecuting white farmers, expropriating their land and encouraging violence against them.
>Based on this, Trump withdrew all aid from South Africa and opened up an asylum process for South Africa’s white farmers to come to America as refugees.
>But as my research shows, land reform does not unfairly target white farmers. Instead, white farmers find it to be a useful and profitable tool to resolve longstanding problems that they face. This shows that the best way to understand land reform is to look at the evidence rather than the political debate.
<Land reform to buffer against theft
>I looked at how land reform was going in the Free State province, a part of South Africa with historically stark spatial segregation that led to minimal Black agriculture and high urbanisation. During apartheid, white and Black residents interacted in specific buffer zones between Black towns and white rural areas.
>I interviewed 10 white farmers who lived next to the buffer areas. They said they were afraid of livestock theft and land reform had allowed them to sell their land to the state for a good price and move into the rural heartland.
>It also meant that stock theft then became the problem of the new group of Black land reform farmers, just as national statistics on farm attacks have shown that Black people make up most of the victims of rural crime.
<How land reform preserved old farming patterns
>I also interviewed a dozen KwaZulu-Natal farmers to find out why they had sold their land. In this province, white farmers historically employed Black workers in a form of semi-feudal servitude called labour tenancy. Labour tenants were given access to small plots of land in exchange for their labour on the white-owned farm.
>This meant that many more Black rural dwellers had small livestock farms scattered among the province’s white commercial farms in KwaZulu-Natal than in Free State.
>Some white farmers sold part of their land through the land reform programme because they wanted to separate labour tenants’ small cattle herds from their larger commercial herds. Before land reform, labour tenants’ cattle often roamed across the farm, breaking fences and mixing with commercial cattle, which made grazing and disease control more difficult. Selling land allowed farmers to confine former labour tenants and their livestock to one part of the farm, separate from the commercial herd.
>However, my research found that this left Black land reform beneficiaries on small plots with little opportunity to expand into profitable commercial farming, preserving the economic divide between the white commercial and Black cattle sectors.
<What needs to happen next
>My research suggests we need to rethink land reform rather than abandon it. In South Africa, much of the land has been redistributed through willing sellers selling land to willing buyers, with government support. This approach may help keep farms profitable, but it does little to tackle the deep inequalities created by colonialism and apartheid over many centuries.
>While the US government has strongly condemned South Africa’s state-driven land reform framework, my research suggests the opposite problem: the state has relied too heavily on market forces instead of taking a more active role in deciding how land is transferred and supporting new farmers.
>For example, in the Free State, land reform did little to reduce racial divisions where people live or the large gap in land ownership between Black and white South Africans. The state must do more to acquire farms or create incentives for existing landowners to sell if it wants to change the make-up of the Free State’s agriculture.
>In KwaZulu-Natal, the government redistributed more land, but many of the small-scale farmers who received it have not been given the support they need to succeed. If the government wants more people to benefit from South Africa’s farming economy, rather than simply transferring land, it needs to do more to help emerging farmers get access to larger farms or earn a decent living from the land they already have.
>Land reform will inevitably change agricultural practices in South Africa. It is up to the state and commercial sector to more equitably incorporate the new modes of farming that are present in the growing Black farming sector.>>2881092And white reactoid's agenda is 99% compatible with the Shariah, yet the overwhelming majority still screech about muzzies.
They just don't mingle with swarthier people, strategic advancement of their own goals be damned.
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