- 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.
“I’ve thought of giving up, but then I think of how my ancestors spilled their blood for this land in the late 1800s so that I could have some kind of prosperity here, and then I fight on,” said Desmond Thompson, a 54-year-old cattle farmer and sugar producer. 
Forty miles away, another man is haunted by ghosts of the past.
Inkosi (Chief) Mqoqi Ngcobo, headman of the AmaQadi clan of Zulus, told The Epoch Times that the spirits of his forefathers are telling him to take Thompson’s land.
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