This is is how it began in Zimbabwe, Mad Bobby's Hell on Earth. But, the SA government,Polokwane - Government has warned white farmers it may seize their properties under the land restitution programme if they fail to agree to a selling price within six months.
The programme aims to hand back land to non-whites forcibly removed from their ancestral homes under apartheid, or offer them financial compensation.
The government wants 30% of farmland in black hands by 2014.
But the transfer process has been slow, with only about 4% of land transferred so far.
Agriculture and Land Affairs Minister Lulu Xingwana said price wrangling was one of the main reasons for the low turnover.
"We are now going to negotiate six months - no more, no less," she said at a briefing in Limpopo on Friday.
"Indeed, we don't have time to be talking and talking for 10 years ... because already our people have been waiting.
"At least now we have ... expropriation. Therefore, we will no longer waste time negotiating with people who are not committed to transformation."
has been quick to dismiss comparisons with Zimbabwe, where a similar campaign was marked by violence and has been blamed for the economic meltdown of the country.Read about it here.
The article explains the necessity of expropriation as a way of coming to terms with the legacy of apartheid and British colonialism, but what is really at play here is the destructive legacy of Maoism and radical anti-colonialism.
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