I'll be honest, that looks like a botanical term, so I am not sure what you're saying I said the government was doing.
Your assertion that you know the difference between urban and rural is not reflected in your opinion that poor, landless whites are the low-hanging fruit.
Semantic deflection. Again. Stop it.
It is clear that I was emphasizing the brutality to which victims are subjected, deflecting from that with pedantry serves no purpose and is pretty distasteful.
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Grim-details-of-Lindley-murders-emerge-20110525
http://www.inquisitr.com/2907340/fa...r-old-and-family-members-bludgeoned-to-death/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...lled-south-africa-robbers-torture-blow-torch/
https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/i-asked-them-if-my-dad-fought-back-287719
https://www.iol.co.za/dailynews/news/my-hate-for-white-people-made-me-do-it-2038002
http://vryheidherald.co.za/41480/breaking-news-two-killed-in-farm-attack/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/sep/26/southafrica.rorycarroll1
https://southafricatoday.net/south-africa-news/the-worst-crime-of-them-all/
http://m.news24.com/news24/SouthAfr...e-farmers-who-died-trying-to-feed-sa-20170519
http://projects.huffingtonpost.co.z...me-demystifying-farm-murders-in-south-africa/
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/N...rm-where-woman-was-tortured-to-death-20170223
http://www.politicsweb.co.za/opinion/antiwhite-racism-in-south-africa
Okay, so now we have a few examples:
- 9 year-old girl bludgeoned to death by a gang.
- A 3 year-old girl shot at close range.
- Babies kicked and beaten to death.
- Farmers skinned alive.
- An elderly woman tortured with a blowtorch.
- An infant that was burned alive.
- A killer that admitted that his hatred for white people made him murder and rob them.
- A gang of 15, armed with AK-47s takes out a farm family.
- An elderly couple, returning home from church are ambushed by a pair that had been waiting for them in their home, drinking their booze. The couple were tortured to death, the old woman was shot once in each knee and once through the back. It took her 25 minutes to bleed to death, during which time her attackers poured boiling water on her. Her husband was tied up in the bathroom, beaten and had the showerhead forced down his throat - he had internal burns from the boiling water they forced down his throat.
- 14 year-old boy forced to lay on the bed where his mother was being raped, and to watch it happen.
- A woman tied to a chair while holes were drilled through her hands and feet.
- Old woman tortured, stripped naked and dumped in a field where she would be found before dying of her injuries.
- Murderers admitting to being inspired by the "Kill the Boer" song and killing whites because they are white.
- Whites being killed while their killers scream "apartheid is over" or "Viva Malema" (Malema is the head of the EFF, and a man that has a history of anti-white rhetoric)
This is obviously nothing close to an exhaustive list of the sorts of acts inflicted upon the thousands of murdered white South African farmers (black farmers have also been killed but in nothing like the numbers, and none, to the best of my knowledge, were tortured to death).
In part it is not an exhaustive list because farm attacks do not get anywhere near the attention they deserve and so most of the sources are likely to be ones that you'll have trouble trusting.
The point being, one does not engage in hours of brutality for the purpose of theft or, really, anything less than savagery, hatred and the application of terror.
I think you're misunderstanding some of the crimes involved. Your apologetics account for some of the thousands of farm murders, but by no stretch of the imagination do you cover all of them.
Why torture someone for hours if you're worried about increased surveillance and the necessity of rapidly abandoning the scene?
Why tie a man behind his car and drag him to his death if you want answers out of him?
What information are you planning on getting when you already gained access to the safe and a plethora of valuables, but you are still going to wait in ambush for the owners to come home so that you can torture and murder them? And then steal very little.
In the case of many farm murders very little is stolen and notes are left with messages like "we killed them, and we are coming back" or "we will be back for our land." The latter, coincidentally I'm sure, echoes the sentiments of the ruling party and the commander in chief.
That's nice.
Your point?
I'm not claiming that the government is paying people to raid farms - though I would never go so far as to claim that they definitely don't, because that would be an idiot claim.
What I am claiming is:
- that they do little to stop it;
- they have been a part of disarming the farmers;
- they encourage this sort of behaviour by singing celebratory songs about the murder of farmers and of whites;
- they have explicitly stated that minorities have fewer rights than the majority;
- Two of the most popular politicians among rural blacks (Malema and Zuma) both advocate for land expropriation without compensation; and
- they are supportive of the Mugabe government... which, you may have heard, has a history of this sort of thing.
The last point is also an interesting one, considering how many Zimbabweans come into the country illegally and engage in farm killings.
Obviously they are banding up, they have watchgroups and use instant messaging for prompt communication. The wealthier ones employ armed response services and private security, but the nature of the attacks is becoming more sophisticated, better planned and, as in the case of the 15 men with AK-47s, more militaristic.
The attacks that are heard about (somewhat) are the attacks that succeed - that doesn't mean that every attack succeeds and that the farmers are just sitting around, twiddling their thumbs and waiting for the next one.
My point here was that the fears of ethnic cleansing of South African whites are not unfounded or unjustified. That does not mean that that is actually what is happening.
No offense, but if you are arguing that those fears are not supported enough circumstantial evidence to warrant closer inspection, then I have trouble believing that you're not just talking out of your ass on a subject you know nothing about in an attempt to play devil's advocate.
Don't worry, though... It sounds like Malema wants to add Indians to his shit-list. So, in a couple years maybe you won't have to worry about just white tears.