Farmlands
Is there a white genocide occurring in South Africa? That's the conclusion reached by controversial alt-right activist and filmmaker Lauren Southern in her new feature-length documentary Farmlands.
The basis of the film is the country's complicated history with land ownership, and the hysteria that has arisen from these issues in recent times.
The crime rate in South Africa is disturbingly high. Dozens of protests are gathered on the streets every day, and municipal buildings and school houses are commonly burned to the ground. Since lawmakers passed a resolution that allows for the seizure and redistribution of land without compensation, there has been a spike in the murder of white farm owners in the region. These murders are described in graphic detail by crime scene personnel, activists in the area and relatives of the fallen.
The film accuses the government and law enforcement officials of fudging statistics and concealing the truth behind this slaughter. In defense of their practices, these institutions insist there is no evidence that these attacks are racially motivated.
During the course of the film, Southern stacks the deck against the country's "black economic empowerment laws". In one segment, she visits a squatter camp populated by white families who are destitute and forced to live without basic comforts and medical care. "There's no help for whites in South Africa," the camp land owner explains. Southern also points to the tens of thousands of minority whites who have fled the country, and the protests mounted in opposition to the farming issues that have gone unheeded by the government.
Southern and her film have been met by vociferous voices of dissent who claim that her message is motivated by thinly veiled racism. Her critics say her narrative is a cautionary rebuke to the end of apartheid, and a delirious warning call to westerners who are quickly becoming the new minority. Viewers can decide for themselves if the events and personal stories depicted in Farmlands are distastefully misleading or indicative of a larger epidemic of racially motivated violence.
Orania sounds like the place to be away from the murderers, rapists and thieves.
I've lived in South Africa for 50 years. I am British naturalised South African. I am 79 years old. I have a black Sotho social partner, and we act as guardians to a school going 14 year old Sotho girl. I have white friends, I have black friends. I love this country, and the people in it. I have many more black friends than white ones. By friends I mean people who I invite into my home and into whose homes I am invited. I have heard it said that black people want to be rid of the whites. There are some people who think this. But they are a minority. I have experienced nothing but friendship from black people. I struggle to speak a little isiZulu and also a little seSotho. I think this documentary is presenting a very one sided picture
This is white supremacist garbage.
First Rhodesia now South Africa.
Watched this entire documentary (skipped a few parts) just so I could say this... Research is very important. Especially unbiased research. It's clear to see that this documentary is subjectively researched and poorly supported. Crime and corruption are confused with an oncoming genocide. It's sad. Please read more if you truly want to be educated on a matter.
A very one sided view of a terrible situation.Is this really a documentary? Reggie Yates did a far more balanced view of some of SA issues .
AYSH!
The politician is the enemy!
I watched 10 minutes of this garbage and then hit the "stop" button. If I want to watch and hear racist far/alt right lies and propaganda I'll watch Fox News.
Too many comfortable, left wing idiots on here saying karma this blah blah If that’s the case then, and the native Americans had sufficient numbers to rise up and kill white Americans, would you so calmly be saying karma then??? Gutless leftist cowards, liberal @ss wipes!
I stopped reading after the second sentence misclassified Mrs. Southern at being alt-right. If you can't do enough research to know what the alt-right is and that Ms. Southern isn't that, your "journalism" don't deserve my time.
Let's see. You take away people's land without compensation. Abuse them. Jail them. Segregate them. Relegate them to the outskirts of society. Kill them. Torture them physically, mentally and emotionally then you're SURPRISED and SHOCK when they retaliate.
Unfortunately, we do live in a one-sided world of entitlement...by some white people.
They actually believe they were and are special but world circumstances of their abusive behavior towards people of color, the land and their inability to discern "fair-play" for all has been going on too long and has reach levels of frustration that leave too many people across the globe to an early death because of warring over resources, infiltration of drugs and prostitution into once quiet and productive communities.
Lauren Southern is a Zionist employee. Even though this is a very relevant subject, be careful of her and her slant on issues in future.
The trouble with comments is that we never have the full story and we take our own emotional view on one aspect. Ie Its white peoples Khama so F....them!
Lets not worry about the over all doco and try listening to what individuals are saying.
Decide wether they were saying it from the heart or wether they were coached.
The pre 1800 immigration/ migration. Is that factual or not?
What I do know is that there are many South African immigrants >about 25,000 I believe Blaming the past and radicalizing the present will not create jobs and well being. Nor will just “getting the land back”
The thought “we are poor because we had our land taken” is like saying “ my great, great grandfather went bankrupt so that’s why i’m poor now” You just have to get on with it in the present environment and work towards change for the better.( Without killing people)
Watching the DVD Shaka Zulu (Or was that propaganda to?) You realize that the hate in Africa between tribes still emanates from that time.
NZ was active in helping abolish apartheid in SA. Does that make us(NZ) now responsible for all the murders happing since its demise?
The irony is that the people of Africa, where our life started millions of years ago, just don’t seem to be able to grow up and create a stable and prosperous environment for all.
Do we need another million years?
PS I am of Maori, Scottish and Viking descent
propaganda machine. you can tell just by the music in the first scene. if you are scared go to church and pray for what your ancestors did. karma is a bitch.
This is mind trash.
It doesn't take $300,000 to go back to Europe. This is the equivalent of Native Americans in America coming together for their land, or Native Australians doing the same; or native anything getting the colonials back for their atrocities
Southern needs serious psychiatric help.
SA is headed for disaster. There is a genocide going on. Zimbabwe ruins will pale by comparison. You liberals need to pull your heads out of your asses and see the world these commie bastards have created.
Seriously? Journalist
? Journalism requires a study of historical background! Gruesome murders? Wow! The theft of the African's land! How do you settle on other people's land? And building a settlement somehow made it okay? And what are your credentials? Education? Background of credible experience? None. None. And ...wait for it ... None!
What goes around comes around and unfortunately the innocent ones end up paying for what their forefathers did.
ABC Australias Foreign correspondent also did a piece on this called Bloodlands. Worth a look if your after some balanced reporting!!
ok so between 45 and 80 white farmers were violently killed last year depending on who you believe. In the the whole of South Africa upwards of 19000 as many murders go unreported. I dont think its about race. If you have something and someone else wants it ,they take it. Black or white.
Technically, this is as polished as what the CBC is capable of, with the truth instead of fake news, without it costing millions of dollars, and without the hatred of men and whites. This is a huge accomplishment by a young conservative woman. South African blacks have never thrown off their savage ways; that is the problem, essentially.
Lauren Southern isn't alt-right what lol
Not really a good documentary. This doesn't mean that the situation in South Africa is not dire. It needed someone from the government who could actually say something. She spoke to a few Afrikanners but what about the English descent South Africans. Liked the illustration of the migration of peoples, brown, black and white. Too many illustrations of the brutality. She seemed to be looking to create revulsion and fan emotions.