A group of organisations in the agricultural-, employer-, small business- and civil space have teamed up to co-ordinately utilize both the special space announced by President Ramaphosa to stimulate alternative electricity supply, and the tax incentives created for the purpose. TLU SA, SAAI, Neasa and Agri X will facilitate the mass project. It does
TLU SA’s support for Sakeliga’s letter of demand to Eskom to stop the application of illegal load reduction, i.e., targeted power cuts, is based, among other things, on the fact that it is unethical to prevent farmers from producing food. Sakeliga is working together with TLU SA and Agri North-West to stop the illegal implementation
TLU SA can no longer allow individuals under financial pressure to suffer even more and therefore TLU SA applied to enter a court case in the court in Kimberley as a friend of the court. This means that TLU SA is given the opportunity to inform the court regarding the interests of farmers in general
The new power plan of President Cyril Ramaphosa has some ideas that TLU SA agrees with, especially the door that has been opened for private input to deliver power, but if the ANC continues with its transformation policy the attempt at recovery will never be completely successful. “This power plan is perhaps to a small
A debate has started in the media about the signed Agricultural and Agro-processing Masterplan (AAMP) and with it various misperceptions has come to the fore. Firstly, the claim of the Minister of Agriculture Thoko Didiza that TLU SA had a fair chance to participate and make its mark on the plan, is not the whole
Not only does South Africa suffer losses of monetary capital, but the United Nations’ Migration data shows that intellectual capital is also rapidly leaving the country. South Africa’s losses of intellectual capital – skilled workers – to countries such as Britain, Australia, America, New Zealand, and Canada are attributed to job insecurity (including children’s futures)
TLU SA’s team is looking forward to the 2022 KragDag TLU SA Agricultural Expo from 11-13 August. The KragDag Expo is adjacent to the Agricultural Expo and includes about 400 stalls, a playground for children, a beer garden, food stalls, boardroom programme and many more. Events are at the Diamantveld Estate outside Pretoria, near the
No one can afford any longer to just watch and do nothing about the challenges in South Africa. For this reason, various agricultural organisations, farmers’ unions, and industry organisations are joining forces to come up with a true agricultural masterplan. Extensive dissatisfaction with the state, Agbiz and Agri SA’s agricultural masterplan among farmers forced organisations
Police Minister Bheki Cele has not for the first time found himself on the wrong side of South African farmers with his statement that farmers who employ illegal foreigners complicate the SAPS’ work to track down criminals. Cele made this statement at a rural security meeting in the Free State. TLU SA wants to make
In the last two months or so, Eskom implemented a new policy of load reduction which amounts to collective punishment, and this has a negative impact on the country’s agricultural industry. TLU SA’s Mr Drickus Botha of the Northern Region and Environmental Affairs Committee says that load reduction is applied where there are one or
