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Expropriation to make more land available for black farmers

Expropriation to make more land available for black farmers

The African Farmers Association of South Africa (AFASA) understands government and black farmers’ frustrations over the slow progress of land reform, hence the organisation support the implementation of expropriation without compensation. This is according...

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Black Farmers’ Struggle For Land Is Just The Beginning

Black Farmers’ Struggle For Land Is Just The Beginning

"The deposit that is required it is too high, and the land is expensive. The queues for government [aid] are too long." Maseli Letuka is a successful farmer growing maize, soya and wheat, as well as breeding cattle. He says it was a tough journey. The Free...

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Black Farmers: This Is What Government Should Do To Help Us

Black Farmers: This Is What Government Should Do To Help Us

Farmer Maseli Letuka says farming is not considered a fashionable career, especially in the black community, where many prefer office jobs – and that this mentality needs to change, as the farming sector has many opportunities. "The tendency of blacks is...

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Meet Two Successful Black Free State Farmers

Meet Two Successful Black Free State Farmers

Diyatalawa (named after a concentration camp in Sri Lanka at which the British interned Boer prisoners of war during the South African War of 1899-1902, aka the Second Anglo-Boer War) is a small farming district in what was once "independent" Qwa-Qwa, a...

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