Caxton Magazines

Despite enormous agricultural potential the Eastern Cape remains a net importer of food staples. The government launched the Massive Food Programme to turn this situation around, but with little effect. Farmer's Weekly can now reveal land still lies fallow because this money became easy pickings for tractor mafias and fraudsters who systematically looted the state coffers with the help of corrupt farmers and officials. Stephan Hofstätter uncovers the Massive Fraud Programme, and government's efforts to clean up the mess.
Issue date 17 August 2007

July tractor sales of 443 units were almost 23% lower than the 573 units sold in July last year
Issue date 17 August 2007

In light of the flood of people crossing the Zimbabwe border illegally, Dries Joubert, chairperson of TAU SA North, has reiterated the organisation's policy that no members should employ any illegal immigrant

Only six of more than 100 cases will be re-opened against farmers accused of abusing their workers in Mpumalanga's southern Highveld area
Issue date 17 August 2007

After several unanswered phone calls a Louis Trichardt (Makhado) citizen rushed to the fire department one evening recently to alert firefighters about a fire in the town
Issue date 17 August 2007

The dangers of working with heavy farm machinery were once again spotlighted by the tragic death of a tractor driver at the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Agriculture and Environmental Affairs' (DAEA) Cedara Agricultural Research Farm
Issue date 17 August 2007

Concerned the food shortages that might arise if maize farmers produce maize for ethanol, Reserve Bank governor Tito Mboweni implored Free State farmers to stick to food production, saying SA should follow Brazil's example and produce ethanol from sugarcane
Issue date 17 August 2007

Pork producers no longer have to worry about European swine fever as stringent measures have proven successful in containing and, in some areas, eradicating it.
Issue date 17 August 2007

The SA government has confirmed that until further notice, no veterinary import permits would be issued for cloven-hoofed animals and products derived therefrom originating from the UK
Issue date 17 August 2007

Jail time for reluctant whites
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“If every Farmers' Union can establish only one upcoming farmer successfully, we will be 100% further ahead than we are now,” said Agri SA's land affairs chairperson Dr Theo de Jager at Free State Agriculture's annual congress
Issue date 17 August 2007

“Do your job or see you in court
Issue date 17 August 2007

Limpopo Police Commissioner Calvin Sengani defended his controversial position that Zimbabweans crossing the border into South Africa may not be arrested, saying freedom of movement is everybody's constitutional right.
Issue date 17 August 2007

KZN farmer's union Kwanalu has called on all farmers to assist the fire-stricken province with fodder
Issue date 17 August 2007

Fires HAVE blazed through parts of Swaziland and eastern SA since two weeks ago, destroying crops and plantations and killing over 20 people and thousands of cattle
Issue date 17 August 2007

'Emergency moves are already under way to buy fodder for the affected farmers.'
Issue date 17 August 2007

What motivates a top winemaker at an internationally acclaimed estate, which sells 130 000 cases annually to 14 different countries, to pull up his roots and settle on a fledgling wine farm where no wine has been made for almost three centuries? Sonja Burger gets the answer from Charles Hopkins, who left the Graham Beck estate after nearly a decade to start afresh at De Grendel, the historic stud farm of Sir David Graaff on the slopes of the Tygerberg, next to Plattekloof.
Issue date 17 August 2007

Although beans are normally quick and easy to grow, they have a disproportionate number of potentially hazardous diseases
Issue date 17 August 2007

The Best chefs in the world are men
Issue date 17 August 2007

Over the past few weeks, ever since I bought my Cobb braai, I�ve personally consumed most of a sheep and a significant part of a cow
Issue date 17 August 2007