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22 May 2020
DispatchLive
Red meat farmers in the Eastern Cape received a much-needed boost when the provincial department of rural development and agrarian reform donated 40 high quality beef heifers cattle to their businesses in Peddie on Thursday. In the 2019/20 financial year, the department, collaborated with the University of Fort Hare Nguni Cattle Development Trust (UFH-NCDT) and delivered various cattle breeds, 71 bulls and 505 heifers and livestock traceability package to 20 farms from a budget of R13 million...
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21 May 2020
Engineering News
A partnership between Tongaat Hulett and The Jobs Fund to accelerate socio-economic transformation in rural communities, which began in 2014, has proven its worth with more than 5 800 people still benefitting from the project. The initiative, which created more than 3 000 jobs in Northern KwaZulu-Natal – an area of significant unemployment and poverty – has delivered significant on-going benefits to thousands of people who would otherwise have limited sources of income. About R82-million has been distributed directly to beneficiaries in the past four production seasons – a significant amount given that it excludes the wage earnings generated by the project.
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20 May 2020
Daily Maverick
Game reserves rely on income generated by local and international tourists, but with lockdown restrictions, those funding streams are no more. Communities bordering the reserves have also found themselves in a precarious position.
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11 May 2020
Daily Maverick
South Africa’s experiment in ‘wildlife privatisation’ is under threat from the Covid-19 pandemic and the lockdown measures to contain it. The once-thriving game-farming industry is in serious trouble because its main sources of revenue — hunting, game viewing and sales — have been under lockdown. It is an economic meltdown that could also create an animal welfare crisis.
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17 May 2020
Times Live
Funerals with fewer than 50 mourners have been allowed under disaster management regulations, but the axe could be about to fall.
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15 May 2020
Farmer’s Weekly
Extremely dry weather conditions across South Africa’s barley production regions this season have resulted in plantings being delayed, according to Grain SA economist, Ikageng Maluleke.
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15 May 2020
News 24
South African wine producers are said to be "fearful and frustrated" due to the ban on alcohol sales during lockdown.
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14 May 2020
Daily Maverick
The National Prosecuting Authority has withdrawn all charges against 10 Eastern Cape activists for violating lockdown regulations when they had a meeting to discuss dire water problems in their communities. Despite a dramatic intervention by the Department of Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation, more than 50 communities countrywide have reported that they remain without clean water and struggle to wash their hands.
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13 May 2020
Farmer’s Weekly
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has had a severe impact on the South African horticulture sector, due to confusion about which industries were allowed to resume normal trade.
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14 May 2020
SowetanLive
The Covid-19 pandemic has presented a new business venture to some villagers in Mpumalanga, Limpopo and the Eastern Cape.
Rural development read moreInflationary pressures and droughts affecting livestock farmers in Midlands @ZiLAN2015 https://www.chronicle.co.zw/farmers-trim-livestock-head-amid-dwingling-pastures/
https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/may-2020/cracks-in-the-global-food-system-more-apparent-with-covid-19/
(JUST IN) The National Assembly's Programme Committee resolves to suspend the process to amend section 25 of the constitution to give effect to land expropriation without compensation pending certainty on #Covid_19SA regulations that can allow public participation. #sabcnews
There have been billions disbursed to assist with the tough times #COVID19 has exacerbated in SA. Where have they gone? There has been corruption reported on the dissemination of food parcels and selling of essential worker/travel permits.
This is a matter of transparency. https://twitter.com/LRC_SouthAfrica/status/1265586415624245248
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