Once the largest single citrus producer in the entire Southern Hemisphere.
➡️Three million cartons a year.
➡️Hundreds of permanent jobs.
➡️Thousands of seasonal workers.
➡️Funded schools.
➡️Put kids through university.
➡️A real economic engine in Limpopo.
Then the ANC’s land restitution geniuses handed Zebediela Citrus Estate over to the Bjatladi CPA in 2003.
What followed was the usual script; internal factional wars, zero governance, financial mismanagement, and straight-up corruption.
Debt exploded to R170–R180 million. The operating companies went into liquidation. The primary packhouse burned down in 2023 because it was left unguarded and unfenced, pure incompetence on display.
Two decades later the place is a shell. Orchards neglected. Infrastructure wrecked. Production destroyed. Jobs gone. And now the same government that oversaw the collapse is back with “revival plans,” bringing in private partners while the CPA keeps the title. Classic. Destroy it first, then beg competent people to come fix what ideology broke.
This isn’t an isolated “teething problem.” It’s the predictable outcome of handing highly technical commercial farms to structures that prioritise politics and patronage over production. Productive White-owned farms get turned into monuments to failure, jobs disappear, and the community that was supposed to be “empowered” ends up poorer.
Land reform without skill, capital discipline, and accountability isn’t justice. It’s economic vandalism dressed up as restitution.
Zebediela didn’t just collapse. It was systematically run into the ground. And the people who cheered the loudest when it was handed over are nowhere to be found when the trees die and the debt piles up.
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AfriForum taking Julius Malema to court over encouraging people to illegally occupy land
AfriForum CEO Kallie Kriel revealed that they are preparing legal action against EFF leader Julius Malema for encouraging illegal land invasions.
He shared this information during an interview with Biznews about their legal battle against the new Expropriation Act, threatening property rights in South Africa.
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@RandPaul what about these people? Why don't you call them to testify?
Deborah Birx – White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator / U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator
Robert Redfield – Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Stephen Hahn – Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Jerome Adams – Surgeon General of the United States
Alex Azar – Secretary of Health and Human Services (initial chair)
Brett Giroir – Assistant Secretary for Health (involved in testing efforts)
Francis Collins – Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH; Fauci’s superior; added later)