Land claims, whether legitimate, fraudulent or opportunistic, can cripple farms, businesses and the families that depend on them. Thousands of land transactions, financing applications and plans to develop or expand have been scuttled by land claims, and this has cost South Africa incalculably in terms of jobs and rural development. That is why the family farmer network, the Southern African Agri Initiative (SAAI), decided to publish the largest digital land claims database online. Until now the ANC and Department of Agriculture have done everything possible to keep this information secret, but now the SAAI web page enables users to determine their land claim status in about 20 seconds!
SAAI Discloses Land Claims Database Online! Charges Agriculture Minister Thoko Didiza with Contempt of Court
The AfriForum farming wing (Southern African Agriculture Initiative (SAAI) plans to take farm murder issues to the United Nations
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AfriForum’s farming wing, the Southern African Agriculture Initiative (SAAI), will be taking the country’s farm murder issues to the United Nations (UN) at the launch of the Decade of Family Farming in Rome.
After a series of reports about farm attacks and the disturbing murder of Annette Kennealy, a Limpopo farm attack activist, AfriForum will turn to the United Nations for help.
The Afrikaner rights group’s farming wing, the Southern African Agriculture Initiative (SAAI), will head to Decade of Family Farming in Rome.
The Citizen reports that the group wants to highlight the challenges that South African farmers face.
Briefly gathered that chief executive of SAAI, Francois Rossouw, emphasized the importance of the UN event.
“The world is realizing that family farmers are going to play an integral part in solving our most threatening problems. For this reason, this resolution for the Decade of Family Farming
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