WSJ:
The Zimbabwe-ification of South Africa?
A change in land policy would wreak havoc on the economy.
“The road ends here,” reads a makeshift sign in the middle of the highway connecting Bulawayo with South Africa. For many miles, the once busy commercial artery between Zimbabwe’s second largest town and its main market has simply ceased to exist. Motorists have to wind their way on an improvised gravel path through the open bush. All along the route, they can observe once productive farms lying abandoned and once productive farm workers scavenging for food.
The dilapidated state of infrastructure and widespread poverty are the results of the destruction of property rights and the rule of law by the government of Zimbabwe. Yet South Africa’s new Minister of Land Reform and Rural Development, Gugile Nkwinti, clearly has not been to Zimbabwe in recent years. Speaking in parliament late last month, he announced that the ANC government would scrap its current “willing buyer willing seller” land redistribution policy, which allows the government to acquire land only at a market price and only with the consent of the land owner, and replace it with “less costly, alternative methods of land acquisition.” The new policy will almost certainly include some form of land expropriation that could spell disaster for the South African economy.
South Africa’s black rulers aren’t Zimbabweificating South African in spite of Zimbabwe reverting to the third world, they’re doing it because Zimbabwe is reverting to the third world. All that matters is that there are no honkeys.
Why should it matter to these black elitist types? Third world or no third world, they’re gonna get theirs. And if/when ZA goes third world, it’ll mean more dorkey American and European libtard “humanitarian” aid which the black rulers will then steal and hawk on the open market. As a matter of fact, the black elite will be better off for turning ZA into Zimbabwe.
Even after ZA reverts to the third world, the reason it might not bottom out as far down as Zim is because ZA has mineral resources, Zim never did.
