It saddens me so that many current events that affect the lives of millions of farmers in South Africa does not even reach the mainstream news. Many issues that are faced on a daily basis by me and others just like me, seems to get smeared over and swept under a rug. And until there is some form of awareness created for these perpetually occurring matters, I strongly doubt in any hope for survival of the white South African farmers.

First of all, let me start off by saying - I am in no way shape or form a racist.

But then again, one does not need to be a racist in order to realize the fact that current blatant genocide of white farmers in South Africa is a harsh reality and as such has become a real threat to my existence.

Surely there must be a reason - Right?

For the greater majority, the general answer to this question would be Apartheid/Racism.
And please do not get me wrong, I am under no illusion when it comes to the negative impact that apartheid had on this country, but also apartheid is something we have long since moved forward from.

Unfortunately it seems that by moving away from apartheid, we only made room for racism of a different type, that might lead to the overall downfall of this beautiful country that we find ourselves in.

Hate speech such as "one farmer one bullet" and "kill the farmer kill the boer" referring to the white South African farmers, is a common practice amid the political leaders, and the recent words of Julius Malema leader of the EFF political party, (one of the current ruling political parties in South Africa), just goes to show the cold blooded hatred that is currently fueling this country.

"We are not calling for the SLAUGHTER of ALL white farmers YET" ~ Julius Malema

Speaking to the general African youth in this country, you will quickly come to the realization that they feel very strongly that their claims to a disadvantaged stature during apartheid calls for cruel and malicious retribution on their behalf such as:

• Land reformation without compensation - meaning that farmlands will be taken away from white farmers without any compensation given to them.
• Violent torturing, raping and killing of white farmers;

And why - Because of the disadvantaged position that apartheid left them in or so they claim...

But are they really as disadvantaged as they would like you to believe, seeing as this generation of youth leading these forefront inhumane groups, were not even a part of the apartheid era?

In fact for over 20 years they have been given numerous advantages privileged only to them, in order to breach any prior gaps of disadvantage that there might have been due to apartheid, here are some of them and these are just listing a few:

• free education
• free medical
• upgraded transportation (taxi owners were all given new vehicles by government)
  
• BEE status (Black economic empowerment) ensuring an integrated workforce.

"Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) is a racially selective programme launched by the South African government to redress the inequalities of Apartheid by giving black (Blacks, Coloureds and Indians) South African citizens economic privileges not available to Whites." source

• free housing exempt of basic fees such as electricity and water,
• free farming land (taken from white farmers who were minimally compensated by government).

Ruefully all of these perks have been misused, the new schools that were built for them were burnt down and vandalized during strikes due to the fact that they wanted the schooling systems changed and the pass rates dropped - Government complied, dropped the schooling standards as well as the pass rates, increased the basic wages of black teachers unrealistically and built new schools, printed new school books and issued new school supplies with tax money.

And all of this was done by the government using tax payers money - oh, and should I add that currently less than 4% of people are tax payers?

Sadly even when you speak to the older generation of Africans the majority will tell you that even during the apartheid era, things were not as bad as they currently are in this country - on either side of the racial fence.

During more strikes for unrealistic wages, hospitals and taxi's were burnt down and vandalized, again government complied, rebuilt and replaced. BEE has been misused as a nepotistic factor by government officials and the free housing and farmlands that were given to them has been deemed inadequate - despite the fact that the majority of already taken farms has been transformed into agricultural wastelands, livestock and animals being culled, and the land stripped of trees & vegetation and all the given implementation either sold or stripped; and now they want more, this time however they insist on "white" farmland being taken without compensation and by force if necessary, where will it end?

I am currently 36 years old and honestly, I can not remember apartheid being a part of my life to start off with, and yet at this point my life and the lives of my family and friends are under constant threat, over the past few years, I have lost numerous friends and neighbors to brutal farm killings, I am in contact with numerous white farmers who have endured hours of torture and/or rape, I have seen many white farmers loose their land and then had to watch it be destroyed, and all of this is being blamed upon an apartheid that I have never even been exposed to.

If we want to build a better tomorrow for this country, why are they still stuck dwelling in the past, while trying to justify the worst possible acts against their fellow man, seated on a high horse of redirected racism?

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