Dan sends in this nugget from South Africa, about the constraints that huge farms face there. By way of background, "one farmer, one bullet" is an Anti-Apartheid slogan that was directed rather pointedly at the large land-owning rural whites, who where the instruments and beneficiaries of Apartheid.
End of the giant farms
Yolandi Groenewald
There is no place for large farms in South Africa and some areas of game parks should be distributed to the landless, a top land official told the Mail & Guardian last week.
Tozi Gwanya, director general of the Department of Land Affairs, also said that "one farmer, one farm" should be seriously considered.
"Though it is a bad slogan," he smiled. "It reminds me too much of one farmer, one bullet." ... read more »
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Ch.2. Farmers | South Africa
Posted on 21 November, 2008 - 20:26