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Steenhuisen Folds Under Legal Pressure to Allow Private Vaccine

Under legal pressure from two farmer unions and a business lobby group, Minister of Agriculture John Steenhuisen has submitted last-minute proposals that could, in practice, open the door to farmers privately sourcing and procuring foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) vaccines, subject to veterinary direction.

The outsourced official opposition- South Africa

Under a dysfunctional government, every state function eventually has to be outsourced if it is to keep working. In South Africa, security, health, electricity, water, road and rail, and even criminal prosecutions have, to a significant degree, become the responsibility of private, non-traditional actors.

They Knew the Vaccine Didn't Match — And Other Things They Didn't Tell Us.

My herd has been vaccinated. I did not choose the vaccine. In South Africa, that choice is not yours to make. The state selects the product. The state controls the supply. You take what arrives.

Farmers want fundamental change, not a sugar-coated version of ANC ideology

Joint Statement by Bennie van Zyl, General Manager of TLU SA, Ina Wilken, Consumer Specialist, Colin Engelbrecht, Chairman of Wildlife Ranching South Africa, Gerhard Papenfus, CEO of the Employers' Organisation Neasa, and Theo de Jager, Chairman of Saai.

John Steenhuisen expanding BEE in agricultural sector – Sakeliga

Minister of Agriculture: Making BEE Compulsory

Why Steenhuisen’s Strawman on Vaccination Is Misleading and What Can Be Done

John Steenhuisen has recently framed accelerated FMD vaccination as a dangerous “vaccine free-for-all”, implying that faster vaccination would inevitably lead to chaos, loss of export credibility, and a collapse of traceability. It is an effective political soundbite. It is also misleading.

Foot and Mouth Disease: how did we get to this point? South Africa

“In a nutshell, I have never felt so dependent on such incompetence,” says Johan* in frustration. His words encapsulate the sentiments of many of South Africa’s farmers confronting an unprecedented Foot and Mouth Disease outbreak.

Covid, but for cows: How foot-and-mouth disinformation is following the pandemic playbook

There are viral voice notes claiming to reveal what the government is supposedly hiding.

URGENT COURT APPLICATION AGAINST DRACONIAN RESTRICTIONS ON FARMERS’ ABILITY TO COMBAT FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE

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.