South African stories – Farm Murders to Black Economic Empowerment

A South African shares his stories about two-farm murders and why Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) fails to stop the horrendous terror attacks. Farmers in particular are vulnerable to shocking terror, humiliating horror and unforgivable methods of violence. The questions asked is whether the farmers of South Africa are attacked, humiliated, crushed and threatened as a scare tactic to force them to sell their land and seek asylum in another country. Who wants the land, and who is behind the terror of farm murders?

Rita Gladys Burdette was working on the administration staff at a Missionary school in Natal Midlands. She raised a black child, putting him through this school and paying his fees.

This boy was about 17-years-old when he did it. He had access to her house and he cut her throat and loaded her into her car and drove away. The blood coming out from the boot gave it away. They found her dead body... 26 January 2007.

I phoned her best friend, similar age.

She said, "She was old, and now is in heaven... she had to die..." I threw the phone down. Never talked to her friend again.

Andy Main agreed to sell his farm to B-BBEE  and he arrived home at about midnight after visiting his daughter. He was gunned down by AK47 at his front door... 23 September 2007.

When I phoned Andy's number the next day. His recorded-voice spoke. It was eerie.

I have a long list of other names, which agreed willing to sell and/or had friends with blacks.. All murdered because of that relationship!

My schoolteacher often said. "Go and teach your grandmother to suck eggs..."

There are far more underlying things than just, 'handing over.' 'Letting go,' 'moving on,' 'forgetting the past,' 'get over it,,' etc.

Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment.

This article was first written early 1960s by Prof. W. E. (Eckard) Kassier. The name still has to be confirmed, but Kassier and his document did happen.
He was an agriculture economic lecture at Cedara Agricultural College during the late 1950s. He lectured at Boschetto Agriculture College for young women, run by Miss Norah Miller. She died during July 1959 holidays and the staff and Board of Governors completed the year-end. The College was closed down at the end of that year.

Boschetto was at Rosette near Nottingham Road in Natal Midlands.

This B-BBEE document is upgraded every five years, done as things change university professors.

The following is taken from.

A Fine Band of Farmers Are We by Bill Guest.

'In 1961, he was succeeded by W. E. (Eckard) Kassier, who was the first student in that Department to complete an M Sc Agric (1959, on the economics of wattle farming) and went on to acquire a D Sc Agrar at Stuttgart-Hohenheim. He initiated a farm management scheme and, after being promoted to senior lecturer, in 1965 assumed the chair at Stellenbosch.'
(That Department was "AgFac" aka Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Natal.)

His first paper he wrote on B-BBEE was so black empowerment would up-set agriculture so that overseas investors could buy land cheaply and so grow crops in the interests of Monsanto and GMO (Genetically Modified Organism) companies and for other Agriculture chemical companies.

“ It is cheaper to undermine and farmer, pay him a little for his land, than it is to pay him full price."

As of August 2013, The Craig Rattray family have agreed to accept R1billion from Government for his Mala Mala Game Reserve, near Kruger National Park. Nevertheless, the government is NOT prepared to pay such large amounts to the other farmers whose land they want to take.