The horrendous violence that has become so common in South Africa is a terror that even cross-border violence or irrational violence against a religious minority doesn’t approach.
And the attacks are viewed by many experts as the signs of genocide, warning [that] top government officials are inciting [it], if not participating directly in it.
The trigger for the latest murder and mayhem against whites is the land owned by descendants of Europeans who arrived generations ago and built up what is now becoming known as “Rainbow Nation.”
Among those ramping up the hatred is South African President Jacob Zuma, who sings a song about genocide and is now seeking to expropriate white-owned farms without even providing compensation.
Other major political forces agree, and some even go further.
Former ANC Youth Leader Julius Malema, who styles himself “commander in chief” of the racist and Marxist-Leninist Economic Freedom Fighters party, argued that “no white person is a rightful land owner” anywhere in South Africa or the entire continent.
He also publicly called on blacks to simply steal land if they want it.
“People of South Africa, where you see a beautiful land, take it, it belongs to you,” Malema said in Parliament.
Before that, he suggested that genocide of whites was coming, eventually.
“We are not calling for the slaughter of white people‚ at least for now,” he added after years of spreading genocidal sentiment.
According to Carte Blanche, an investigative news program on South African television, there were 16 recorded murders in 46 gruesome farm attacks across South Africa in February alone.
And even that may underestimate the total, as the government buries and conceal the data, often classifying the murders and tortures as “robberies.”
In one case last month that received international attention because the victims were British, a married couple was tortured for hours on their South African farm.
Among other horrors, the attackers tied up the victims, 64-year-old Sue Howarth and 66-year-old Robert Lynn, and tortured them for hours with a blowtorch.
A plastic bag was stuffed down Howarth’s throat after her breasts were burned beyond recognition, while her husband had a bag tied on his head and was cut up with a knife.
After hours of torture, the two victims were thrown in the back of their pickup truck and dumped on the side of the road. Both were also shot.
Another victim attacked last month was farmer Trevor Rees, who was tortured on his farm in southern Drakensberg.
He was forced to drink bleach, attacked with pliers, beaten for days and finally shot.
In yet another farm attack, this one in early March, an elderly woman was tortured with a power drill, with the attackers drilling holes in her while she was still alive.
As with so many victims of the farm attacks, she was left lying in a pool of her own blood. --
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