On 3 January 2020 – while the proposed amendments to Section 25 of the Constitution are still open for public comment – the Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development published the draft National Policy for Beneficiary Selection and Land Allocation for comment. This policy aims to identify who should qualify as beneficiaries of […]
Following yesterday’s budget speech, Saai is sceptical over the small budget allocated to finalising land claims. Tito Mboweni, Minister of Finance, said yesterday that R500 million had been budgeted for the finalisation thereof. According to Theo de Jager, Saai’s Chairperson of the Board of Directors, there are significantly more farms listed in the Government Gazette under […]
The civil rights organisation AfriForum and the family farming organisation Saai released and discussed AfriForum’s 2019 statistics on farm attacks and murders at a media conference today. It seems from the data that AfriForum collected on this issue that farm attacks increased last year by more than 100 incidents, although the number of farm murders […]
Saai – an organisation that protects the interests of family farmers – laid charges on behalf of one of its members at the Brooklyn Police Station today after the Government Employees Pension Fund (GEPF) paid R586,5 million for a 60% share in a 1 028 hectare portion of farmland. The member of Saai, Jaco Engelbrecht, is […]
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