
- The government isn’t seizing farms, but radical fringe groups are encouraging invasions of land that they say was stolen by white settlers.
- A South African revolutionary song calling for blacks to kill white farmers has fomented racial tensions in the lead-up to elections.
- Extremist groups are attacking targets with bombs and automatic rifles, and no place is sacrosanct—from churches and bars frequented by white people, to minibus taxis transporting black factory workers.
Johannesburg, Mar.12.– On a swath of land on the north coast of South Africa’s lush KwaZulu-Natal Province, endless rows of sugarcane fill the emerald rolling hills, against the backdrop of the azure Indian Ocean.
It looks peaceful, but a battle has raged here for almost 15 years.
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