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I am amazed about the tone of questions here on Quora in recent weeks regarding the situation in South Africa, and some of the answers they evoke, quite often from people not living here and simply having no clue about the dynamics of the country.Regarding the first part of your question, a week ago the President of the Agricultural Union of South Africa, Mr Dan Kriek, had a meeting with the President of the Republic of South Africa, Mr Cyril Ramaphosa, while at the same time the Vice-President of the RSA, Mr David Mabuza, had a meeting with the CEO of AgriSA, Mr Omri van Zyl. The request for these two meetings came from the ANC government itself, and not the other way round.Unlike so many others who have responded here, I will not speak on behalf of any one of the two sides, but rather let them speak for themselves, if you don’t mind reading the following links:Meeting with Ramaphosa was constructive - AgribizMabuza commends agriculture presidents' commitment on land reform planANC commits to protect property rights in 'historic' meeting with AgriSAClearly the tone portrayed in these links is not one of dire desperation as people are made to believe here on Quora, and from my personal interactions with farmers where I live it accurately reflects the mood among farmers from the community - that is in Limpopo Province, where white people make up a mere 2.6% of the total population, the lowest percentage of any of South Africa’s 9 provinces.Really, believe me, we are not living in fear of a pending apocalypse!Regarding “gun confiscation” I again ask you to do some reading. This is the police requirements for renewal of gun licences:SAPS (South African Police Service)It clearly states that application for renewal of a firearm licence should be done “at least 90 days before the date of expiry of a licence”. A firearm licence in SA is a credit card type document, stating the type of firearm, the calibre, the serial number, name of the owner, his ID number AND the date of expiry. Ninety days is not an unreasonable period of time, as there is an administration process involved, as well as some background checks to be done.The onus rest on the owner of the firearm to be aware of the expiry date, but I will gladly share with you my experience. I own two firearms, one of which the licence expired in July this year. In February I received an SMS from SAPS reminding me of the expiry date for renewal AND stating the 90 day requirement. I somehow miscalculated the deadline and went for renewal application inside the 90 days stipulated period.There is a space on the application form where one has to give a reason if the application is late, and I wrote in some feeble excuse. It did not even elicit a frown. After the formalities I was informed that they will send me a message when my new licence was ready. After about two weeks I received a message that my renewal was approved, and about a month later it was ready for pick up from the police station. No big hassle at all.The issue that did arise was what the situation would be if a licence had expired before the gun owner applied for a new licence, which actually happened to many people. Clearly, from a legal point of view that means that it has become an illegal firearm, and had to be handed in with the police to have it destroyed, as there is no other legal way of dealing with an illegal firearm under South African law. The SA Gun Owners Association went to court to challenge the latter part, as many of their members’ licences had expired. The High Court ruled in their favour, declaring that that part of the law was unconstitutional.The Minister of Police had no choice but to challenge the decision of the High Court in the Constitutional Court, the only authority on constitutional matters, which ruled that the law pertaining to firearms was indeed constitutional and those firearms had become illegal. If there was an opportunity for disarming lots of people, this was it, but the Minister of Police did the sensible thing by proclaiming an amnesty for the renewal of expired firearm licences, of which you can read here:SAGASo, no, no firearms (and indeed technically illegal ones) were confiscated.Please stop the narrative!

South Africa had approximately 17 000 deaths in 2015 (non-natural). This is about 46 people a day were killed. This is around 31 homicides per 100 000 people. To put this in perspective, the US has a rate of around 3.8 homicides per 100 000 people. See the difference there?Go read up on violent attacks in South Africa. Some of the common characteristics are that there are usually more than one attacker (anything from 3 or 4, up to 12 in certain instances), and a lot of the time the attackers are high on tik (local slang for Methamphetamine) or similar drugs. We also have a problem with "struggle-era" firearms that was never handed in by the ANC. This includes AK-47's and various other Soviet weaponry smuggled into SA during Apartheid. Due to lax policy, the border between South Africa and its neighbours (Zimbabwe and Mozambique) are almost completely porous, allowing firearms, drugs, traffickers and poachers to cross the border without fear. We also have a problem of police and military firearms "dissapearing" (ie, stolen, sold or rented out). This is mainly due to high levels of corruption and the police service and military used as vehicles to create employment. One of the firearms turning up quite frequently at crime scenes is the R4 rifle (full-automatic version of the Galil, produced locally).That means that firearms are quite literally force equalisers. With my Glock 19 in my hand, I can put up quite a fight when confronted by these criminals. When I am the only one standing between these thugs and my wife (being raped, mutilated and murdered), you can bet on it that I would rather have a gun in my hand than a rose.The other side of the story is also that I enjoy shooting. Crazy, right? For me it a fun pastime. I am even willing to go into the onerous licensing procedure. (If your lucky it takes 3 months to get a license, if your unlucky it can take an indefinite amount of time).You then get people like Gun Free South Africa (sponsored by George Soros and his Open Society Foundation) that wishes to make the licensing process even more onerous, and eventually scrap firearm ownership all together. This goes against all logic as by definition criminals do not follow the law. Therefore only law-abiding citizens will be disarmed. If this was to happen, criminals will go on a rampage and nothing will be able to stop them.Edit:Licensing process in South Africa, just so that everyone can understand why I say the process is onerous.Any person can readily buy a gun, but that gun has to stay at the gun shop until your license has been approved. For your license to be approved, a couple of things need to happen.Step 1: Get a competency certificateThis entails writing a test on the law and the safe handling of the firearm you want to own. This can be handgun, shotgun, manually operated rifle or self-loading rifle. You can do only the one applicable to you or you can do all of them if you wish. The second option usually saves time and money in the long run.After this, you still have to do a practical shoot with a firearm of the type you want to apply for (again, either handgun, shotgun, manually operated rifle or self-loading rifle, or all of them). Once this is done, your training provider issues you with a training certificate and a statement of results. This if proof that you have done the necessary training. This training usually costs between R2000 - R3000 (South African Rand). At the 3 March 2016 exchange rate, this is about $130 - $200 US.You then take your training certificate and apply for a competency certificate at your local South African Police Service (SAPS) office. The police officer will take your fingerprints and the application and everything is sent through to our Central Firearms Register (CFR, the guys responsible for licensing). Your fingerprints will head to the Criminal Record Centre (CRC) where they will check to see if you have a criminal record or any pending cases against you. This take about a month to do. If CRC gives the OK, your application for competency goes "into consideration". Your competency may now be approved (or not). It has now been 3 months (if your lucky) since you handed in your application at SAPS. You finally have your competency certificate!You can now move on to the actual license application.Step 2: License your firearmNow you have to install a safe (one that meets a certain set of requirements) and you have to motivate why you need the firearm. In SA there are different licensing sections, depending on your need. You will have to motivate according to the section you are applying under. They are:Section 13 (Self defence) - Remember to add crime statistics for your area. Newspaper clippings will also help. (apparently the the well publicised crime in SA is not reason enough, you have to be VERY specific. It helps if you have already been a victim of crime). Can only license a single handgun (revolver or semi-auto pistol) or a single shotgun (may not be semi-automatic).Section 15 (Occasional sport shooter or hunter) - Although the law states that it is not necessary, the CFR insists to have proof of participation. Something like a letter from a farm where you have hunted or a club where you have shot at. Can license up to four firearms in this section. No semi-automatic rifles or semi-automatic shotguns in this section.Section 16 (Dedicated sport shooter or dedicated hunter) - You have to be a member of a sport shooting or hunting association with proof of regular participation. Participate enough and your association will give you Dedicated Sport Shooter status or Dedicated Hunter status. You definitely require this to apply under this section. Semi-automatic rifles and semi-automatic shotguns may only be licensed under this section. No limit on the number of firearms.There are other sections for temporary licenses (if you hunt in SA and bring your own firearm), for collectors, etc.It has come to a point where the motivations are usually documents around 10-20 pages long.If you are (very) lucky, your license is approved in 3 months from starting Step 2. If you are unlucky, it can take a year or two. After you license has been approved, it takes another month for the license card to be printed and it may or may not reach you.With card in hand you may now fetch your firearm from the gun shop!And licenses need to be renewed..... S13 every 5 years, S15 and S16 every 10 years. And you need to go through this whole process (Step 2) again when renewing.

GTA San Andreas Cheat codes.When I was a kid, GTA SA was my addiction. Whenever I started playing the game, I used to put a couple of cheat codes in the very beginning - Like the “No Police” cheat, flying cars, semi-infinite health.I was tired of typing them manually everytime. So I created a small JAVA application that would automatically implement the list of these codes whenever I start the game (This was a time when I didn’t knew Trainers/Patches existed for the game).