When overseas media outlets report on the topic of land expropriation, it’s always an interesting affair.

Who could forget that quite amazing Fox News segment on the topic, where constantly-constipated-face Tucker Carlson and his in-studio guests did what Fox News does best.

That’s sowing fear and spreading misinformation, in case you were wondering.

This time around it’s ITV over in the UK who are dipping into the topic, as part of their On Assignment series.

They shared a clip of the show ahead of its broadcast, since picked up by The South African, who make a very good point:

It seems like the rate of farm attacks and the prospect of land expropriation are being pigeonholed as the same thing. To its critics, expropriation makes farmers more vulnerable than they currently are.

ITV’s video comes with this description:

Twenty-five years since the end of apartheid in South Africa, the country is still wrestling with its legacy. Vast swathes of farmland are still owned by the white minority, and now the government is considering seizing the land and handing it over to the millions of poor black farmers, dispossessed generations ago by Boer settlers.

For the new series of ITV’s On Assignment, ITV News Africa Correspondent John Ray travelled across the country, meeting those desperate to get back the land of their ancestors, and those who are taking up arms to protect their property.

Packing heat:

Funny, I only see “those who are taking up arms to protect their property” represented.

Apparently the full show aired on ITV at 10:45PM UK time last night, but I wouldn’t imagine there’s much worth watching.

[source:southafrican]