Saai announced today that the agricultural interests network will draw up a family farmer resolution that will be presented to the United Nations (UN) in 2020. This forms part of a larger campaign to continuously place crimes against family farmers on the international agenda. In May this year Saai attended the launch of the UN’s […]
According to the United Nations’ Food and Agricultural Organization, family farming produces over 80% of the world’s food. This means that family farmers are in the best position to address some of the major global challenges identified by the Sustainable Development Goals. That is why the United Nations adopted Resolution 72/239, which aims to generate […]
The Southern Africa Agri Initiative (Saai), a network of family farmers and people with an interest in farming that look after family farmers, on 11 September 2019 presented a farmer’s day at The Hub in Tzaneen. Intense discussions were held with communal farmers, small-scale and settlement farmers, commercial farmers and beneficiaries of land reform regarding their needs, […]
The Southern African Agri Initiative (Saai) welcomes the ruling by the Gauteng High Court, which compels the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform to sell the state farm to David Rakgase, a beneficiary of land reform in Limpopo. Rakgase has been farming on this farm for the last 27 years.
The Southern Africa Agri Initiative (Saai) welcomes the national treasury’s discussion document on economic policy that was released on 27 August 2019. This 62-page document focuses on five themes that will put a stop to weak economic growth and rising unemployment in the long run. A large part of the document focuses on the agricultural […]
The Southern African Agri Initiative (Saai) plans on providing greater momentum to growing legal pressure on the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to reinstate the SADC tribunal.
The Southern Africa Agri-Initiative (Saai) is disappointed with the report presented by the so-called advisory panel of land reform experts to cabinet, and at this stage wants to put forward an opposite view on key aspects of the report.
Although our current Constitution allows for expropriation subject to “just and equitable” compensation, the draft Constitution Eighteenth Amendment Bill, 2019, which is open for comment until 31 January 2020, wants to explicitly allow for “nil” compensation where land is taken for the purposes of “land reform”. Three sections of the Constitution recognises and entrenches the […]
Following an application by Manzolwandle Investments to mine coal in an area of about 18 000 ha close to Komatipoort and the Kruger National Park, the agricultural interest group Saai – the representative of family farms – joined as interested party to oppose this development.
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