{"id":231757,"date":"2018-03-14T14:58:45","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T12:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=231757"},"modified":"2018-03-14T14:59:20","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T12:59:20","slug":"australian-minister-looking-at-fast-tracking-visas-for-south-african-farmers-following-land-grabs-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/231757\/australian-minister-looking-at-fast-tracking-visas-for-south-african-farmers-following-land-grabs-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia looking at fast-tracking visas for South African farmers amid land grabs: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian home affairs minister Peter Dutton is considering fast-tracking visas for white South African farmers.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0 minister told the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/myaccount.news.com.au\/sites\/dailytelegraph\/subscribe.html?sourceCode=DTWEB_WRE170_a_GGL&amp;mode=premium&amp;dest=https:\/\/www.dailytelegraph.com.au\/news\/national\/peter-dutton-urges-his-department-to-look-at-bringing-white-south-african-farmers-to-australia\/news-story\/e94418ad2095109c84277456131391c1&amp;memtype=anonymous\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daily Telegraph<\/a><\/strong> on Wednesday that his department is examining a range of methods to fast-track their path to Australia on humanitarian or other visa programmes.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2018\/mar\/14\/dutton-considers-fast-track-visas-for-white-south-african-farmers?CMP=soc_567\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Guardian<\/a><\/strong>, a number of Australian media outlets have raised concerns with the recent proposal of &#8216;land expropriation without compensation&#8217;, and reported that\u00a0white farmers in the country are being murdered at a rate of more than one per week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you look at the footage and read the stories, you hear the accounts, it\u2019s a horrific circumstance they face,\u201d Dutton said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The people we\u2019re talking about want to work hard, they want to contribute to a country like Australia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want people who want to come here, abide by our laws, integrate into our society, work hard, not lead a life on welfare. And I think these people deserve special attention and we\u2019re certainly applying that special attention now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dutton said that\u00a0Australia has a number of refugee, humanitarian and other visa programmes which could possibly used to help these South Africans.<\/p>\n<p>He added that he had asked his department to look at the options \u201cbecause from what I have seen they do need help from a civilised country like ours\u201d.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/231543\/5-areas-in-gauteng-that-are-currently-subject-to-the-effs-land-grabs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">5 areas in Gauteng that are currently subject to the EFF\u2019s land grabs<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian home affairs minister Peter Dutton is considering fast-tracking visas for South African farmers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":127411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-231757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231757"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231767,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231757\/revisions\/231767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}