Minister skirts the issues
After appearing hours late for a press briefing in Beaufort West last month, land and agriculture minister Lulama Xingwana gave guarded responses to TAU SA's memorandum to the Department of Agriculture, and accusations that she used “hate speech” at the 16 Days of Activism for No Violence Against Women and Children function in Pretoria
McCain to aid emerging potato sector
Emerging potato farmers are set to benefit the most from McCain Foods SA's R500-million potato processing expansion investment project at its Delmas, Mpumalanga plant, said the company's managing director, Owen Porteus.
In memoriam: Prof Herbert Ian Behrmann
Well-known agricultural economist Prof Herbert Ian Behrmann died tragically after being hit by a bus in his home city of Pietermaritzburg in KZN recently. He was 88.
Farmers resort to own vaccinations
Farmers in the Dordrecht district in the Eastern Cape have started their own emergency inoculation programme after several cases of rabies were detected in the area and also in the Sterkstroom and Swempoort areas.
‘No U-turn on white Zim farmers’
Prof Sam Moyo, the director of the African Institute of Agrarian Studies in Harare, said Zimbabwe would not change its stance on white commercial farmers who lost their land during the country's land reform programme
Mokono withdraws his resignation
The Commission on Restitution has announced that Limpopo land claims commissioner Mashile Mokono has agreed to withdraw his resignation which was to be effective from February 2007.
