A panel of experts appointed by President Cyril Ramaphosa to advise South Africa’s government on how to resolve the issue of land reform, restitution and redistribution handed in its final report on Tuesday, the presidency said.

President Cyril Ramaphosa and his deputy David Mabuza received a report from the advisory panel on land reform and agriculture on Tuesday

TLU SA neem kennis dat die presidensiële raadgewende paneel oor grondhervorming en landbou sy verslag aan Pres. Cyril Ramaphosa oorhandig het. 

In 1996, while I was teaching at the University of Cape Town, I was invited by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to be an in-house critic at a town hall it had organized. A member of the largely black African audience told this story:

The state of the nation address delivered by president Cyril Ramaphosa in parliament today is clearly pure wishful thinking and the beginning of the final countdown to the total destruction of the country's economic development and progress," says independent agricultural economist Fanie Brink.

TLU SA feels Pres. Cyril Ramaphosa’s call – during his second State of the Nation Address – for South Africans to buy local, could not have come at a better time.

Agri SA is optimisties oor die Staatsrede, maar dit is nou die laaste geleentheid vir die regering om op die oorblywende openbare vertroue te kapitaliseer en om hul beloftes te eer.

“Die ANC-regering se aanslag op die Reserwebank is nou groter as wat dit ooit voorheen was na die uitsprake deur president, Cyril Ramaphosa, in die staatsrede wat hy gister in die parlement gelewer het,” sê Fanie Brink, ‘n onafhanklike landbou-ekonoom.

Ons edelagbare President met al sy mooi drome het   sekere lede van die parlement en media baie opgewonde gemaak en geinspireer met sy mooi woorde en drome vir toekoms, ander was reeds gemaklik aan die slaap en ander het nie mooi geweet of die President werklik besig is om die land se probleme en oplossings aan te spreek nie.

The expansion in most agricultural subsectors in South Africa has been export-driven, particularly in the horticultural sector. This sector is labour-intensive, and the expansion also brought jobs.

TLU SA is extremely concerned over the rise in and brutality of farm attacks in South Africa, with an increase of 60% in the past decade.

Former president Kgalema Motlanthe has warned of a dire impact on society if property rights in South Africa aren't protected.

Carbon tax is likely to be an effective way of mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, which lead to climate change and have negative consequences for human life.

The final Report for the President of South Africa on Landreform.  ( Click on the Link above to see the report.) 

TLU SA is deeply concerned after the release of the long-awaited report on land reform this weekend.

President Cyril Ramaphosa's Advisory Panel on Land Reform and Agriculture believes individuals or companies should own commercial farms in South Africa, or should at least have leases so iron-clad they can literally take them to the bank.

South Africa’s slow-motion momentum towards a financial train crash has begun to speed up. Recent weeks have seen strong warning signals from the rating agencies.

South Africans need not fear Brexit as it will be good for this country, UK High Commissioner to South Africa Nigel Casey insists.

South Africa’s land panel finally produced its report at the end of July. At 144 pages it’s an impressive document, making all the right noises. South Africa, like Zimbabwe, left the land issue for too long. 25 years after freedom, at least now a serious move is being made in South Africa. But will it make a difference?

The FairPlay movement, job-seekers, trade unions and impoverished rural communities will be watching closely to see whether the new poultry industry master plan sets the industry on a growth path by cutting back the devastating flow of dumped and predatory imports.