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- South Africa is currently caught in a precarious economic paradox, with the country’s food economy becoming increasingly vulnerable while, at the same time, we have not adequately confronted the fact that millions of hectares of arable land transferred through land reform remain underutilised.
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The 58th NAMPO Harvest Day agricultural exhibition will be held at Bothaville, Free State, from May 12 to 15, with the theme Resilience through Innovation.
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Land reform is arguably one of the most challenging undertakings that the post-1994 government has embarked on and it remains a critical part of restorative justice that seeks to address the legacy of centuries of colonialism and decades of apartheid.
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Saai, together with Free State Agriculture and Sakeliga, has launched an urgent application in the Pretoria High Court for an interim interdict against the Minister of Agriculture, the Department of Agriculture, and the Director of Animal Health, pending a review application in which the lawfulness of the Minister’s decisions regarding Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) vaccine measures will be challenged.
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For too long, South Africa’s private sector has viewed land reform as either a government problem or a political risk best avoided. Scepticism, uncertainty and fear of reputational exposure have meant that only a handful of companies have meaningfully raised their hands to support land reform projects.
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Anyone who does not tow the line and instead speaks in the best interest of livestock farmers, rather than serving party politics or the narrow interests of senior government officials who caused the foot and mouth crisis is being fired, excluded, isolated, and targeted.
