With the inability of the Ramaphosa regime to clearly understand what farmers can expect from the land theft action that will begin soon, farmers are worried that they can be financially ruined.
The different scenarios are analyzed one after the other which is making farmers unwilling to sow or to plant.
The farmers believe the risk is too high for the harvest to be ready on the land when the government confiscates the land for the benefit of the so called ‘new owner’.
The second concern is who will be responsible for the exercise that has to be undertaken and who is responsible for the mortgage on the farm? It is the feeling that farmers would rather not incur any further costs, fearing that they would have to pay the costs without the income derived from the land.
If political leaders of the ANC regime ignore all these fears, or reject it as speculation, they will now have to give clarity to farmers.
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