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I do know the history that you kindly outlined above. I also know the story of the Khosians and that many died or got driven out but it wasn't just the Boars. Disease and other tribes played a major role and anyway these original people are not the ones murdering & appropriating land.(Btw The "Bushmen" as I understand still live their traditional hunter gatherer lives?)
It's disingenuous to say the number of white farmers killed is low because A: statistically, for such a small group the number killed is so disproportionate (.066 of the population)as for them to be 1500% more likely murdered. Secondly, aside from that, the rural white south African poor don't even rate in those numbers because they're not technically Boar farmers (maybe Anglo descent & living in a rural smallholding etc)
I'd be interested to know why you left yourself? My friend was a sailor & travelled the world over. He said SA and in particular Cape town is the most beautiful place in the world hands down.
You must know they're targeted because they're white and it's also the way they're being killed is so horrific. History doesn't make it ok. Edited to say I'm also aware that coloured and Indian people are targeted too. I knew an Indian SA in the 80s who left due to this.
For others :the whites are 7% of the population and own 22% of the land so a lot of the stats about whites owning all the land are false.Also SA is having to import food because many of the appropriated farms are left fallow (I've read up to 90%) SA once grew all its own food.