South Africa: 90% of white farmland transferred to blacks "failing"

First, snippets from the BBC article "South Africa black-owned farms 'failing'" (March 3): 

Some 90% of farms redistributed to South Africa's black population from white farmers are not productive, the government has said.

Almost 60,000 sq km (23,000 sq miles) have been redistributed under policies aimed at benefiting black people who were left impoverished by apartheid.

Repossessing the land would provide a whole new problem for the government, our correspondent says, as any move to return the land to its former white owners is bound to be controversial.

The government had set a target of 2014 to redistribute one-third of white-owned land back to the black majority. But Mr Nkwinti acknowledged that the deadline would not be kept. He said the focus would now shift to helping the black farmers make their land productive.

"The farms - which were active accruing revenue for the state - were handed over to people, and more than 90% of those are not functional," he said.

"They are not productive, and therefore the state loses the revenue. We cannot afford to go on like that... No country can afford that."

Land reform is a sensitive issue in South Africa and has been brought into sharp focus by the decline of agriculture in neighbouring Zimbabwe, where many white commercial farmers have been violently evicted.

Leftists, whether in South Africa or the US, take wealth as a "given" and therefore assume that you can simply replace wealth-creators - generally whites and asians - with blacks or hispanics and the process of wealth creation will go on.

However, South Africa's experiment utterly refutes this crazed notion. Even if 20% or 30% of the farms were "not productive" after switching to black hands, the experiment would have been a failure, but 90%!!!?? This is unbelievable.

White farmers produced food for the local population, they employed blacks to work the fields, and they paid tax revenues to the government. In short, they made a real contribution to society. Their only sin? Being white. The funny thing is that the black government was so naive as to believe the artificially constructed leftist worldview that you can simply replace "white" with "black" hands and the wealth-creation process will continue.

But wealth is not a "given." Wealth-creation requires intelligence, skill, and hard work. Replacing whites with blacks in the wealth-creation process is like throwing rocks into a car engine and expecting the vehicle to still move forward. This is reality. The black government was only forced to confront this reality when its tax revenues started to disappear.

When will reality "hit" in the US? Affirmative action is a drain on the US economy in so many ways because underqualified blacks and hispanics are either placed in important decision-making positions that they can't handle, or meaningless positions like "race expert" or "diversity officer" (a la Michelle Obama) have to be created to employ them.

I personally think our fate will be sealed when we become a majority-minority nation and there are fewer and fewer wealth-creators for dysfunctional minorities to feed off of. If I were black or hispanic, I wouldn't be relishing the day when whitey becomes a minority. Because there'll be no point forming a gravy train when there's no one left making the gravy. Just ask bankrupt California.