Farming is a specialist, and under-appreciated skillset.

lol

@Dinosorcerer These people are going to get a rude shock.

Some of them already have, but the lesson hasn't seemed to take

I don't think this has happened in SA yet.

It happened in Zimbabwe a while ago, but no one wanted to learn those lessons.

It's going to happen eventually

Yes, after they actually take the land.

There have been a few isolated cases in SA like the one I talked about above

I have no sympathy for people who steal and murder, then starve as a consequence. However, these people are also condemning innocent children to the same fate.

@Dinosorcerer Got links to these isolated cases?

I honestly didn't think you'd start seeing it this soon.

https://twitter.com/nickmon1112/status/971518456033087488?s=19

How does 2004 sound?

wut

How can you attribute happenings in 2004 to stuff happening this year and last year?

it was during an earlier land reform effort

Oh, what did this effort consist of?

legal shennanigans and corruption warped the law into essentially creating the conditions that new laws the ANC is considering would implement on a nation-wide scale

Considering?

It sounds like a sure thing to me.

well, I say "considering" in the same way a lawyer says "alleged" when they know their client is guilty

it's the term they're using, but make no mistake, I fully expect them to go ahead with this

These people make western politicians look like geniuses.

now the 2004 case is different in that the farmers were actually paid for their land, which probably explains why they offered to help with the farm afterwords

I doubt the people being murdered and stole from will be so accommodating.

my thinking exactly

I wonder if it would be possible to engineer a strange crop plant that can be grown by people with a perception of farming shaped by ideology.

a sort of "Lysenko" supercrop?

No, a crop made with real science, engineered to grow like weed.

In low nutrient, high salinity, low water conditions.

Maybe that could be grown by retards.

undoubtedly that will cause more problems. you need to rotate crops to preserve the soil's natural reserve of nutrients

Legumes are for replenishing nitrogen.

I know my parents had to rotate out corn for soybeans to do that

It's the nitrogen-fixing bacteria in the roots that do it.

@Dinosorcerer, there are loads of black farmers all over Africa who can grow their produce just fine. They just don't tend to be on expropriated land.

@Oliver Starley, ^

how long before they get their land expropriated? I guess it'll probably be as soon as all the white farmers are gone.

Is SA still losing scientists?