Appeal to give new law on fisheries more time
Inconsistencies, omissions, obtuse language and weakening of existing legislation pepper Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson’s proposed amendmentsConcern over time allowed to comment on marine bill
Academics, environmentalists concerned about public participation process for Marine Living Resources Amendment Bill, say it contains ‘inconsistencies’ on rights
State settles restitution claims to tune of R1bn, says land minister
Government settles 602 restitution claims in financial year to end of March, after land reform department previously failed to pay farmers
Documents seized from Smit Amandla Marine
Documents relate to contract for management of patrol vessels belonging to Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
Department to help struggling Mpumalanga land recipients with development
Rural development and land reform minister assigns four deputy directors-general to lead programmes for beneficiaries of land restitution on farms near Middelburg
Changes to product mix pays off for Sovereign Food Investments
Group feels effects of poultry imports and rising administrative costs, with margins likely to be further squeezed this year as costs cannot be passed on to consumersAstral earnings plunge on rising costs, cheap imported chicken products
Astral Foods reports 82% drop in diluted headline earnings per share in six months to March, despite revenue rising 5%
Food production faltering in sub-Saharan Africa
Investment of $93bn a year needed in region’s infrastructure to support agriculture, writes Mariam Isa
Nafu calls for de-politicisation of land to ensure food security
National African Farmers Union says conflict over land hampers South Africa’s ability to achieve food and job security, and fight poverty
SA wine industry set to beat export record
Growers raise a glass to another good year with exports rising 496-million litres
Grow Africa ‘has mobilised $3bn in investments’
The partnership that mobilises private investment into African agriculture has provided a model for how governments and the private sector can promote investment
Fawu threatens further De Doorns farm strikes
Food and Allied Workers’ Union says job losses on farms have fuelled frustrations among members
Shock over minister’s Western Cape ‘strike aid’
Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson admits that her department has funded one of the key players in the Western Cape farm workers strike
- DA wants probe into funding for farm workers
- MalaMala land claim case heads for Constitutional Court
- Original vaccine for horse sickness ‘still works’
- Industry steps in to secure fish certificate
- MPs grill Joemat-Pettersson over fishing crisis
- Chicken producers in SA intensify bid for import duties
- ANC MPs at odds over Joemat-Pettersson report
- Cheap chicken imports hamper Afgri’s performance
- Constitutional Court dismisses Agri SA’s expropriation claim
- Revised Expropriation Bill allows for court to decide compensation
- Zeder buys extra 25% in Capespan for R258m
- Control of SA’s fisheries ‘in wrong hands’
- Cronin plays down expropriation fears
- Draft Expropriation Bill ‘won’t allow orgy of expropriation’
- Agriculture is putting SA in deep water
- Zeder seeks nod for sale of Capevin stock
- Zimbabwe may shut down Tongaat operations
- Food security concerns flagged at Cool Logistics Africa conference
- SA chicken producers seek tariffs lifeline
- Afgri-Senwes venture to focus on retail — Venter
- Cape Ostrich farmers unfazed by detection of new bird flu strain
- Tribunal urges revised conditions for Senwes, Afgri deal
- Zeder net asset value up
- Dutch firm to restore SA fishery ships
- Aquaculture project ‘important first step, but more is needed’
- EU imports ‘hurt SA agro-processing firms’
- SA aquaculture industry gets a boost with launch of development programme
- Wool farmers plan to raise R500m in public share offering
- Land market will not solve redistribution issue, says professor
- State ‘owns 14% of land in SA’
- Sugar industry rolls up sleeves to help state resolve land claims
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