What is happening in South Africa is quite tragic, especially since no side can win in this senseless conflict. Everyone loses when White farmers are dispossessed of their land.

As we have seen in neighbouring Zimbabwe, when farms are forcefully taken from Whites, subdivided and the parcels handed over to the ‘landless’ Blacks, productivity nosedives. Less food means food prices skyrocket, thus making the Blacks poorer, since most will depend on purchased foodstuffs.

The major problem - and this the biggest culprit in this conflict - is not incitement from bigoted politicians. It is the lack of free media, including social media. The media is biased. And social media, including Facebook, Twitter etc. are also biased, not only against the White farmers, but also against the Blacks, because they deliberately shut out or devalue opinion highlighting the folly of farm invasions.

If the media, including international media, was not biased, people in South Africa and elsewhere would have access to information highlighting the fact that farm subdivisions greatly lower productivity. In addition, the people would know that the solution to widespread poverty in Africa is not every citizen being given a few acres of land - land that they cannot utilise in a productive manner.

The solution is access to decent housing, clean water, affordable education and health services. But since local politicians don’t want to be held accountable when they fail to provide these basic services, they resort to incitement, lying to the people that if they each had some few hectares of land, they would be swimming in cash.

Whoever controls the tools of information is responsible for the South African crisis. This includes the big media houses in South Africa and internationally, and the oligarchs controlling world media, social media and related platforms.

This is why I support Paul Nehlen’s ‘Shall Not Censor’ (proposed) legislation. I hope such legislation could be enacted worldwide, so that media and search giants can be forced to become unbiased, so that users can have access to differing opinions so they can make informed judgement.

Certainly, if such legislation existed, the South African farm invasions would probably not have occurred.