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Chip writes:

I got the idea from reading the comments on a Daily Maverick article on the subject - a farmer, I guess, said he wouldn't mind losing half his debt. I remember a friend saying he didn't want to inherit the family farm in the E Cape because it came with a staggering overdraft.

Chip

CHIP SNADDON was born in Estcourt (KZN) in 1964 and went to Hilton College where he matriculated in 1982. But it would be in Cape Town where he'd cut his…>

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Keywords for this cartoon:

Bankruptcy, BBBEE, Bonds, Cartooniversity, Credit, Debt, Department of Rural Development and Land Reform, Equity, Expropriation, Farm Workers, Farmers, Farming, Farms, Farmworkers, Gugile Nkwinti, Ideas, Karoo, Land, Land Redistribution, Land Reform, Mortgage, Overdraft, re#, Redistribution, Reform, Reformation, Restitution, Rural Development, Sharing, Sheep, Workers

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This cartoon enjoyed a tremendous viral response on our Africartoons facebook page, soliciting over 1700 shares and viewed by 72,500 people within 18 hours of being posted. After three days, it had reached 135 360 people, garnering 11 200 Likes , comments and Shares between them (2900 shares and 395 likes from the original post alone: see below for updates). We asked Chip to give us some insight as to the creation of the cartoon. See his reply in the sidelines column, top left.