If president Cyril Ramaphosa blatantly lies when he addresses audiences overseas, it leaves TAU SA with no other option but to set the record straight.

TAU SA has taken note of media reports that the executive officer in the office of the valuer general has indicated that some properties belonging to the state and which could be utilised for land reform purposes, will not have any value at all.

Crime in South Africa and particularly farm murders is now internationalised. Comments emanate from far and wide. Social media has put paid to the ANC’s hopes that their shenanigans will go unnoticed, and while T-shirts and food hampers may sway their hapless followers, the world out there knows what’s going on. It took some time, but the penny has finally dropped.

On Friday 15 February TLU SA sent a letter to the Banking Association of South Africa (BASA) to request a discussion about the sustainability of the agricultural production of the country.

TLU SA mourns the efforts of specific role players in the industry to constantly discredit farmers, and more so commercial farmers, and portraying them in the worst light possible.

On the eve of credit ratings agency Moody’s next decision over South Africa’s economic state, it is very clear that the ANC’s policy has finally forced the country into an economic quandary.

TLU SA today launched the first national Financial Wellness Survey and Desk for farmers.

Our life is hell! This farm has been in our family for generations. My forefathers struggled from the boat to the South African coastline. I am an old man but what about my two sons? One son says he doesn’t know if he can raise his children on this farm.”

Professor Lesiba Teffo of the Centre for African Renaissance at the University of South Africa did not mince his words when commenting on the ANC’s victory in the May 8 South African election: despite an outcry from some voters, “the ANC’s arrogance in power and President Cyril Ramaphosa’s fear of a coup had to do with their insistence on keeping objectionable party members on parliamentary lists”, he declared.

The significant increase in farm attacks and murders since 2012, and especially following the national elections, is a source of grave concern for TLU SA. According to Henry Geldenhuys, Vice President of TLU SA, this development, particularly regarding the inhuman torture of the victims, can no longer be accepted.

The news that South Africa’s economy shrank by 3,2% in the first quarter of the year comes as no shock to the agricultural sector. Despite its historically reliable and significant contribution to the economy, even agriculture could not surmount the communist policies and downright ineptitude of the ANC and shrank by 13,2% in the same period.

Before the parliamentary sitting where you were elected as president of South Africa, the Chief Justice of this country prayed to God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit for wisdom and for this country.

‘Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their ideas, cannot change anything - George Bernard Shaw’.

TLU SA neem kennis dat die presidensiële raadgewende paneel oor grondhervorming en landbou sy verslag aan Pres. Cyril Ramaphosa oorhandig het. 

TLU SA feels Pres. Cyril Ramaphosa’s call – during his second State of the Nation Address – for South Africans to buy local, could not have come at a better time.

The ANC and its cohorts have beaten a path to Zimbabwe in the past to learn how to implement expropriation without compensation locally. It would be a good idea if they visited Zimbabwe again now to see first-hand the disastrous famine, caused by failed communist policies, that country is experiencing.

TLU SA is extremely concerned over the rise in and brutality of farm attacks in South Africa, with an increase of 60% in the past decade.

The decision of the ANC government to go ahead with changes to Section 25 of the Constitution – which relates to expropriation without compensation – is short-sighted.

TLU SA is deeply concerned after the release of the long-awaited report on land reform this weekend.

Doing the rounds on social media is an article about the true meaning of regression. The piece by Professor Anthony Turton illustrates the backward trajectory of the South African economy, bringing to mind what happened to so many African states after the colonial powers departed.