Who Owns South Africa?

The New Yorker is correct about the shameful history of dispossession of land from non-whites - a persistent practice that long pre-dated apartheid, and then proceeded with unprecedented brutality. And specific claims should be heard in the courts which are failing in this.

But wholesale confiscation based on race and awarded to cronies is not justice and would produce economic disaster.

And Julius Malema is a catastrophe waiting to happen.

This article is long but well worth reading if you want a fair in-depth analysis of the situation in South Africa that cuts through the BS on both sides.

You can read it at the link above - where you can also find a link to have it read aloud to you.

Roets does not deny that apartheid was a moral catastrophe. “Everyone agrees it was a horrible system,” he said. “I’m sure it’s less than one per cent within the white community that thinks otherwise.” But he believes that the goal of land reform should be to reward people with provable legal claims, not to alleviate the lingering damage of South Africa’s racial history. “It’s wrong to say that dispossession happened to all black people or that it was committed by all white people across the entire surface of South Africa,” he told me. “Of course, then people say, ‘Oh, so you’re pro-apartheid.’ No! We are free-market people.” On his bookshelf, Roets had a bust of Ronald Reagan. “We want the state to be small and out of the way. Apartheid was a big-government system.”