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The beginning of the end for hunting in SA
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That makes two of us!
oowee
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Each year I go hunting in SA. The farm I stay on has black farm owners working on it, even though in some cases they may own a farm of hundreds of HA. The white farmer I stay with lends machinery to these owners and in some cases is paying for the schooling of their kids. The relationship between them is hard to describe but revolves around total trust and mutual reliance. This contrasts to the relationship you see outside of the farms where no one appears to trust anyone else.
When I drive about it's easy to identify a black owned farm by the colour of the ground and the condition of the crops. Without exception the farms owned by blacks will be overgrazed. When a drought occurs they will be least prepared and suffer the most as they will not have any reserve crop or ground to turn to.
A wonderful country with exceptional resources.
When I drive about it's easy to identify a black owned farm by the colour of the ground and the condition of the crops. Without exception the farms owned by blacks will be overgrazed. When a drought occurs they will be least prepared and suffer the most as they will not have any reserve crop or ground to turn to.
A wonderful country with exceptional resources.
John Gryphon
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The white folks are not welcome/wanted in SA but their DOLLAR is.
Prior to your post oowee, there were some less desirable comments, yours helped put matters back in perspective. Your comments about the relationship between white farmers and blacks mirrors what I said earlier from my time in the Cape and the NW Transvaal. It is a critical link in food chain, that relationship.
No one wants to see anyone starve to death. That’s not cool. Starvation is usually prefaced by extreme violence, especially in countires full of guns, and no one wins in those circumstances. If like me you’d travelled to the Danakil Desert and the Afar region of Ethiopia you’d have a different take on starvation altogether.
And this post just about sums up one of the big problems with the world today. You state your personal opinion, which could very well be in a minority, as the general concensus, which it so obviously isn't ! Did you not read my post, or the following ones?
Perhaps you should be an MP, civil servant or councillor.
Highlandsjohn
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+ 1 Well stated dodgyknees.john
All this does is confirm your original post, but you can't see that can you. I'll not post a smiley, they say it's rude to mock the afflicted.
Don’t worry rodp, I’ll take my pills and put some ointment on my affliction and hopefully I’ll feel a little better later.
Beautiful morning here, lots of jobs to do before a quick trip over the ditch for a week to see how the neighbours are recovering from the death of cricket as they know it. Tell you what, I’ll sit on the plane and compile a selection of your comments and maybe pose some alternative points of view... you know, the ones about sitting in trees, starvation, snowflakes, all that.
Beautiful morning here, lots of jobs to do before a quick trip over the ditch for a week to see how the neighbours are recovering from the death of cricket as they know it. Tell you what, I’ll sit on the plane and compile a selection of your comments and maybe pose some alternative points of view... you know, the ones about sitting in trees, starvation, snowflakes, all that.
welshwarrior
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Some really good and interesting post but also some that clear show they have never lived in Southern Africa. It’s a very different world to our European one. The relationships are complex like all relationships but don’t conform with the media protrade stereotype.
The blurring of lines and boundaries is hard to comprehend unless you’ve lived them. I hope SA sorts itself out if it had already done so I’d be living there again, but I doubt I will see it or my kids evens.
The blurring of lines and boundaries is hard to comprehend unless you’ve lived them. I hope SA sorts itself out if it had already done so I’d be living there again, but I doubt I will see it or my kids evens.
Cyril is treading a fine line. Elections are looming and the EFF is a threat to traditional ANC power base so there needs to be some noise in this space to keep the roots in place. Bear in mind he got rich playing the capitalists game, not the communists.
If you think the ANC is left and corrupt then the EFF is off the chart.
I grew up there and have immediate family there.
If you think the ANC is left and corrupt then the EFF is off the chart.
I grew up there and have immediate family there.
