Saai welcomes the amnesty for firearm owners, especially those whose renewal applications were delayed or lost in the often-chaotic state of SAPS stations. The Central Firearms Registry (CFR) cannot currently control the normal flow of renewal applications, and Bheki Cele, Minister of Police, recently acknowledged it. The enormous backlogs can be partially attributed to this. […]
A dramatic increase in suicide among framers – whose lives have become unbearable during the drought as a result of high debt, unsympathetic banks and other financial service providers, and exploiting lawyers – has the agricultural community worried. During disastrous droughts there are very few buyers at auctions, and after a lifetime’s work and development […]
By Francois Rossouw, CEO of Saai “Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.” – Daniel Webster (American statesman: 1782 – 1852). After almost two centuries, this adage still rings true. […]
The agricultural network for family farmers, Saai, today announced that it would soon be augmenting its livestock theft app, STIC, to prioritise the traceability of the movement of livestock. This follows the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries’ announcement that foot-and-mouth disease had broken out in the Molemole district in Limpopo. The Department subsequently announced […]
Saai announced today that the agricultural interests network will draw up a family farmer resolution that will be presented to the United Nations (UN) in 2020. This forms part of a larger campaign to continuously place crimes against family farmers on the international agenda. In May this year Saai attended the launch of the UN’s […]
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