Re:How the West Got China Wrong
by sn41 on Friday March 02, 2018 @05:56AM
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I hope it does not end up like Zimbabwe. From what I understand, some demagogues are demanding that white farmers' land must be taken over by the state and redistributed to blacks. This is exactly where things started going wrong with Mugabe.
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Re:How the West Got China Wrong
by smithmayowa on Friday March 02, 2018 @06:02AM
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yep that would be disastrous, but then I do hope they find a way to mediate the two extreme factions, one that wants the white to pay for some past sin, and one that does not believe they did any thing wrong to the blacks, as S.A future depends on this.
Re:How the West Got China Wrong
by Hasknewbie on Friday March 02, 2018 @07:22AM
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Namibia has a "if you sell land, the government has the option of being the first buyer [to redistribute it afterward]". Not ideal, but way better than Zimbabwe. They probably looked at Mugabe's results and thought "thanks but no thanks".
Not sure this would work for ZA though. Namibia is only 2M people, it's not the same scale.
Re:How the West Got China Wrong
by programmernews3 on Friday March 02, 2018 @11:35AM
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It is very racist to treat a group ("whites") by their skin color in this day and age.
> It is very racist to treat a group ("whites") by their skin color in this day and age.
How convenient, as the end of apartheid was less than a generation ago (1994). What's done is done, right?