Agriculture & Land Reform

Food price boon for SA

Wednesday, 06 January 2010
South African consumers can have the peace of mind of knowing that there will probably be adequate maize available at affordable prices this year.
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Farming in the heart of Joburg

Friday, 27 November 2009
A dumpsite in the Johannesburg inner city has been transformed into a 1-hectare food garden supplying fresh vegetables to children and HIV-positive people, in a project demonstrating the enormous potential of urban agriculture.
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Some R7 million has been set aside to build silos in the Eastern Cape as part of a cropping project that will create job opportunities, AsgiSA Eastern Cape said on Tuesday.
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Huge Congo deal for SA farmers

Wednesday, 21 October 2009
South Africa has signed a deal with the Republic of Congo that will give South African farmers access to up to 10 million hectares (24.7 million acres) of farmland, the country's biggest farmers' union said on Tuesday.
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Farmers were more positive about the country after a meeting between Agricultural Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson and Agri SA, an agricultural conference heard on Wednesday.
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Government has no intention of driving white commercial farmers off the land, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson said on Thursday.
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Last year the profitability of agricultural businesses in South Africa rose by a significant 24% as against the previous year, according to the PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Benchmarking Survey. This was mainly the result of increased turnovers and improved management styles.
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Organic cotton farming in South Africa has received a boost, thanks to a pilot project spearheaded by Woolworths.

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Land reform: the win-win approach

Thursday, 16 August 2007
In a groundbreaking move for successful land negotiations in South Africa, Conservation Corporation Africa (CC Africa) has signed a mutually beneficial land deal for Phinda Private Game Reserve to restore ownership of the land back to the local communities.
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The spirit of ukusiza (helping or sharing with less fortunate people) was celebrated earlier this month when breeders and commercial farmers loaned 50 Sanganer cattle worth R200 000 to 16 emerging farmers from Ermelo in Mpumalanga.
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Ninety-three percent of land restitution claims had been settled by the end of the last financial year (2006/07), Agriculture and Land Affairs Minister Lulu Xingwana said on Friday.
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The United Kingdom and Belgian governments have provided support of the South African land reform programme by jointly donating R70 million to help support new land owners and beneficiaries of the programme.
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Ethanol - boon or bust?

Monday, 18 September 2006
South African farmer Hannes Haasbroek flew home from an agriculture conference in the United States six years ago, inspired by the novel and potentially lucrative idea of distilling maize into bioethanol fuel for vehicles.
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Ethanol Africa’s newly appointed Managing Director, Joe Kruger, says the opportunity exists that South Africa could become a dominant player in the global bio-fuels market. Extending local know-how and expertise into sub-Saharan Africa could spearhead a significant revival of the Continent’s agricultural industry.
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President Thabo Mbeki has met with farmers in the Free State's Thabo Mofutsanyane District Municipality to hear their concerns and views on what must be done to ensure sustainable economic growth here.
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SA wines take States by storm

Tuesday, 18 April 2006
The local wine industry is taking the competitive United States market by storm using innovative marketing strategies and hands-on promotion.
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In the late 1990s – still the early days of South Africa's democracy – Joseph Makhadi couldn't afford to continue his studies at a local technical college. He dropped out and lived, unemployed, in a humble dwelling along with 10 members of his extended family.
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Controversy around statements by the South African government that it is to review its willing-seller willing-buyer approach to land reform and use expropriation, where necessary, is due more to unclear communication than substantive change in state policy, according to an analyst.
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South Africa is sowing the first seeds in a national initiative that is expected to sprout a vibrant local biofuels industry.
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The World Bank has described the four-day land summit held at Nasrec, Johannesburg, as a great success.
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A R150 million investment is set to turn a poor community of 5,000 households, into one of the rich in Mpumalanga's Nkomazi region.
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South Africa’s blossoming rooibos industry received a boost when an American company dropped its claim to the rooibos name in the United States.
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SA needs a news revolution

Author: Lisa Roberts
Monday, 08 March 2010

article thumbnailIn this week’s blog, South African patriot and Saffer blogger Lisa Roberts, asks why we've become "an unthinking, unfeeling, passive herd" that consumes the (bad) news without flinching. Lisa wants to start a revolution of good news in South Africa. Read on to find out why we need a news revolution:
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