Following yesterday’s budget speech, Saai is sceptical over the small budget allocated to finalising land claims. Tito Mboweni, Minister of Finance, said yesterday that R500 million had been budgeted for the finalisation thereof. According to Theo de Jager, Saai’s Chairperson of the Board of Directors, there are significantly more farms listed in the Government Gazette under […]
The civil rights organisation AfriForum and the family farming organisation Saai released and discussed AfriForum’s 2019 statistics on farm attacks and murders at a media conference today. It seems from the data that AfriForum collected on this issue that farm attacks increased last year by more than 100 incidents, although the number of farm murders […]
Saai – an organisation that protects the interests of family farmers – laid charges on behalf of one of its members at the Brooklyn Police Station today after the Government Employees Pension Fund (GEPF) paid R586,5 million for a 60% share in a 1 028 hectare portion of farmland. The member of Saai, Jaco Engelbrecht, is […]
Saai – an organisation that protects the interests of family farmers – submitted commentary on the amendment to the Constitution that would allow for expropriation without compensation. Saai is planning a strong international awareness campaign for 2020 on expropriation without compensation and farm murders. The first leg of the campaign comprised a visit to the […]
The whole world needs to understand that, in Africa, if a wildlife asset pays, it stays. If it doesn’t, it is replaced with something that does pay-(Thomson R, 2018). Saai and network partners in the wildlife ranching sector invites you to comment on the recent announcement by the UK government to ban the importation of […]
Saai, an organisation that protects the interests of family farmers, which also includes game farmers, recently submitted commentary on the UK government’s consultation on whether to ban the import and export of hunting trophies to and from the UK. The call for evidence and consultation to gather views and expert evidence on trophy hunting was […]
Saai welcomes the amnesty for firearm owners, especially those whose renewal applications were delayed or lost in the often-chaotic state of SAPS stations. The Central Firearms Registry (CFR) cannot currently control the normal flow of renewal applications, and Bheki Cele, Minister of Police, recently acknowledged it. The enormous backlogs can be partially attributed to this. […]
A dramatic increase in suicide among framers – whose lives have become unbearable during the drought as a result of high debt, unsympathetic banks and other financial service providers, and exploiting lawyers – has the agricultural community worried. During disastrous droughts there are very few buyers at auctions, and after a lifetime’s work and development […]
By Francois Rossouw, CEO of Saai “Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.” – Daniel Webster (American statesman: 1782 – 1852). After almost two centuries, this adage still rings true. […]
The agricultural network for family farmers, Saai, today announced that it would soon be augmenting its livestock theft app, STIC, to prioritise the traceability of the movement of livestock. This follows the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries’ announcement that foot-and-mouth disease had broken out in the Molemole district in Limpopo. The Department subsequently announced […]
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