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Game Warden
Reports www.news24.com.
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Game farms in Limpopo, Mpumalanga and the Eastern Cape are being eyed by government for nationalisation as such agricultural concerns do not contribute to food security. But farmers using all of the land available to them have nothing to fear from the state as it would be "stupid" to interfere. These opinions were expressed by Dr Joe Phaahla, deputy minister of rural development and land reform and Thozi Gwanya, the department's director general, as tensions rose in the agricultural community about government's controversial land nationalisation plans.

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Let us hope this is not the beginning of a Zimbabwe style land reform. Dik dik, any thoughts?
twaffle
This doesn't sound at all optimistic, but the districts don't mean much to me so I can't relate these areas to Dikdik's farm.
Atravelynn
I immediately thought of Dik dik too.
wildernessman
QUOTE (Game Warden @ Mar 19 2010, 06:08 AM) *
Reports www.news24.com.
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G But farmers using all of the land available to them have nothing to fear from the state as it would be "stupid" to interfere. ... as tensions rose in the agricultural community about government's controversial land nationalisation plans.


Let us hope this is not the beginning of a Zimbabwe style land reform. Dik dik, any thoughts?


They also said the same about Zimbabwe.
The rise of Nazism was also brushed aside at the time .
dikdik
They are not limiting themselves to game farms.

Electioneering tactics. If they cant win votes by providing services they have to think of something else. It seems that the efforts to polarize the people is working in the mean time.
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