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My father took a loan and bought a small piece of farmland in the North West Province near Putfontein area. On the farm me and my sisters were born. My father worked the land, paid off his loan, and bought more land. After school I worked the land full time with my father. We planted corn, had a dairy, beef cows, and chickens. The land next to us was owned by Setswana black people. After the Boer war vs England, Paul Kruger gave that land to the blacks that helped and took care of the Boers cattle. The National Party expropriated the land from them, and relocated them close to Mafikeng (not without compensation), and gave the land to white commercial farmers. 13 farmers turned the land into top productive units. In the 1990’s government expropriated the land again, with compensation, and settled the black tribes back on the land. Today, on the +-6000ha, some of my friends are renting back the land and plant maize, sunflowers and soya. Crime picked up in the area, they stole our cattle, cattle fencing got expropriated, farm-attacks in the area picked up. Some of our family got attacked. So we sold our land and moved to the Eastern Cape Province to a safer area where I raised my children.There we build up a a 10300 acre sheep/cattle farm, producing beef cattle, karoo lamb, and exported wool. 2022 I bought farmland near Grahamstown, where we produced Macadamia nuts, beef cattle and game breeding. Then they stole our cattle, poached our zebras and animals. Set snare traps almost daily. Another friend of mine got attack close to us near the Fish River. They stole all my equipment and tools, chainsaws, welder and grinder. So, I sold that farm and bought new land in the Western Cape. Attached are some pics of what I produced as a commercial farmer over the years. We have employed many people and still do. We work hard together with our black farm workers on the farms, and always had a good relationship. The hate is driven by the ANC and EFF. Boers just want to farm in peace.