Baratang wrote:hardwood wrote:masukuma wrote:Watu hawajui AGRICULTURE IS A CULTURE... you don't come from a family of miners to do agriculture.
The zulus and others were farming crops even before the mines were discovered. Agriculture also includes keeping animals and African communities always kept huge herds even before the white man came into the scene. There is no difference between a mzungu herder (he prefers to be called a "rancher") with 1000 animals and a zulu herder with his 1000 animals.
Oxford dictionary wrote:Agriculture is the cultivation of land and breeding of animals and plants to provide food, fiber, medicinal plants and other products to sustain and enhance life.
@hardwood..perhaps before telling us how great a farmers the black south Africans were and are, you might need to dig into the history of the four main communities (Zulu, Xhosa, Ngoni and the Khoi San (bushmen)) in South Africa just before 1450 AD. This might help you to correct your argument.
I am with Hardwood here, the issue of utilisation and productive use of land will come later, for now its about historical injustices, let those wazungu's migrate to Australia and Canada and settle there and grow those white economies, and let the south Africa be left to its original owners to do with as they please even if it means collapsing the economy.
The white farmers did not and will never give the 2,500 blacks food for free, the blacks have to buy and when you are not gainfully employed, then even the money to buy the food will not be available.
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