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Afrikaner farmers in George are terrified of black male youth gangs who are appparently above the law due to Child Act: with the ANC youth league last week also issuing threats that they will 'take the land by force if farmers don't surrender the land to the black masses' - white farmers in the George region find that the black-male youth gangs attacking their families and -properties are 'above the law', since they are treated for this very violent crimes as 'minors', protected under the Child Act in SA. It must be noted that by the end of 2010, more than 65,000 of the original 85,000 'Boer-owned' farms ALREADY were in the property of the South African state and that the ANC-regime also ignored the fact that all the previously black homelands farms now also have been handed over into the property of the South African State. (goverment document attached). Their families are being targetted by waves of heavily-armed, very aggressive and well-organised black youth gangs -- who are moreover seem to be ‘above the law’ as they are being protected from prosecution by the Child Protection Act. Some farmers like Paul Erasmus of Tarentaalbos Farm say farmers are very vulnerable to these black male youth gangs 'because legislation protects youth criminals: our residents are constantly concerned about when the next attack might occur." In a seperate development, Johannes Möller, the president of the pro-ANC AGri-SA lobby, said at the World Farmers’Organisation on 7 June 2012 in Rome, Italy that white South African farmers found themselves in a challenging ‘symbiotic relationship’ in which the highly-experienced white farmers not only had to mentor the ‘new black farmers’ but also had to build up a symbiotic business-relationship with them. Several farming-organisation representing other African countries such as Nduati Kariuki of the Kenya National Federation of Agricultural Producers supported this approach, saying that the striving of African farmers to become ‘large scale commercial products’ needed to be recognised by the business community: African countries are expected to expand their food-production considerably not only to supply local needs but also the needs of a growing world-population. It is undoubtedly true that the proven skills and the larger number of (black) commercial farmers in South Africa are an essential asset for South Africa as these new players enter the agricultural sector but also to a lesser degree, can be expected to help improve the agricultural development in the rest of Africa.’ http://www.georgeherald.com/news.aspx?id=28434&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter http://www.georgeherald.com/news.aspx?id=28729&h=Simbiotiese-verhouding-is-belangrik-vir-sukses-binne-grondhervorming
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