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Saai (Southern African Agri Initiative) has launched its wine marketing project, The Wine Farmer, on the Marianne Wine Estate at Stellenbosch on 22 October 2020. The Wine Farmer is a

The hearts of Saai and its members across South Africa go out to the farmers in the Hertzogville area who have lost livestock, pastures, fences and other infrastructure, income of

It is with shock and great sadness that Saai has learned of the untimely passing of Dr Vuyo Mahlati, President of the African Farmers Association of South Africa (AFASA). Dr

Dear Pres. Ramaphosa Your open letter earlier today to South Africans in general and farmers in particular refers. Thank you for writing it. At least you got involved in a

The organisation for family farmers Saai condemns the senseless, cruel murder outside Paul Roux on the 21-year old Free State farm manager Bredin Horner. It did not only have repercussions

Every farmer in South Africa – large and small, poor and rich, black and white, regardless political affiliation – wants to know: How are we supposed to farm if communal

Pressure exerted by several court cases on the irrational regulations proclaimed by Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, Minister of Cooperative Government and Traditional Affairs (Cogta), under Levels 4 and 3 of the

Thousands of farmers and farmworkers have been doomed to bankruptcy and job losses by excessive lockdown measures and the destruction of markets and value chains. “Across the world, the media

Pres. Cyril Ramaphosa’s announcement of a relaxation of the lockdown regulations to reduce the economic damage caused by the government’s excessive state of lockdown, is too little and too late

The increase in the number of land claims actively processed in the run-up to 2021’s local elections is a source of concern for the Southern African Agri Initiative (Saai). “This