Parliament 21 April 2016 Dr. Pieter Mulder: FF Plus leader The current drought is being described as the worst drought in 100 years. Thousands of small farmers and subsistence farmer's livelihoods have been wiped out. Only in the next six months will we truly be…
05 April 2016: As consumers continue to grapple with high food prices triggered by the recent drought and the ailing economy, milk will soon be added to their list of costly staple foods. Dairy farmers are currently facing production shortages and will likely run into…
The IFP has placed an emphasis on the dumping of foreign food in South Africa, and that it should be discouraged except during periods of shortage. Should dumped US meat be allowed to enter South Africa, it will become a burden on our farmers, effectively…
FEW ISSUES in contemporary South Africa arouse as much emotion as "the land question". Given SA’s history, it is hardly surprising that land reform should generate so much political heat. Black South Africans were devastated by land dispossession and disparities in ownership. Today, land still…