Loading ...…will very likely follow the pattern set by zimbabwe. it’s not hard to predict. large white owned commercial farms will be seized, broken up into smaller tracts and given or sold cheaply to landless blacks. in the process, quite a few politically well connected blacks will become wealthy. some, very wealthy, depending on how high they are in the patronage tree.
the thorn on the rosebush is called “economies of scale.” south africa is not a garden spot. to prosper in the farming business there is a capital intense business. bored wells, pumps, irrigation systems, (it’s on the dry side there) tractors, combines, etc. a 750 acre (300 ha.)farm with a farmer who knows what he’s doing can make a nice living (weather permitting). break that up into 15 tracts of 50 acres (20 ha.) and distribute them to fifteen families of landless blacks, and it falls apart. nobody does maintenance on the pumps. nobody knows how to service the tractors…. total food produced will begin to drop off rather sharply. shortages, famines, hunger riots in the urban areas as less and less food comes in from the countryside…
farmland isn’t the only thing that will be hit. we can expect the mines, factories, etc to be looted piecemeal, but the farms will go first.