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Vrystaat Landbou (VL) en die Rooivleisprodusente-organisasie (RPO) is bekommerd dat die huidige vlak 4 Covid-19 regulasies, wat padblokkades om Gauteng insluit wat onder andere deur SAPD se Veiligheidskoördineerders beman moet word, kan moontlik ‘n leemte in polisiëring in landelike gebiede laat. Dié twee organisasies versoek boere daarom om ingeskakel te wees by veiligheidstrukture in hul onderskeie areas, maar veral in die Noord-Vrystaat, ten einde paraatheid en sigbaarheid in die landelike gebiede daar te stel. Luidens Tommie Esterhuyse, vise-president van VL, word talle Veiligheidskoördineerders van hul daaglikse take in landelike gebiede onttrek om diens by padblokkades te verrig wat vanaf 1 Julie op die grense van Gauteng opgestel is. Esterhuyse sê skakeling van verdagte persone, voertuie en beweging veral gedurende die aandklokreël moet deur landbougemeenskappe, veral waar plaaswag-strukture gevestig is, met erns hanteer word.

The wine industry in the Western Cape has suffered huge financial knocks because of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. The Western Cape’s Provincial Minister for Agriculture, Dr Ivan Meyer, has highlighted the detrimental economic impacts the pandemic has had on the wine industry since the start of the initial lockdown. He says this is the fifth time over the past 15 months that bans have been imposed on the wine and alcohol industry. Meyer says the wine industry cannot sustain these irregular stop-and-go intervals, saying no business or economic entity can contribute effectively under these circumstances. Meyer goes on to say that people have time and again turned to the black market for the purchase of liquor, which has, in effect, led to a further decline in legal sales of wine.

Die DA het 'n beroep op die minister van samewerkende regering en tradisionele sake, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, gedoen om vlak 4 se regulasies wat veeveilings verbied te heroorweeg. Die DA-woordvoerder, Noko Masipa, sê tydens verlede jaar se vlak 4-inperkings is veeveilings onder streng veiligheidsprotokolle toegelaat. Die regulasies het toe bepaal dat veilings mag plaasvind indien slegs vee-eienaars, vee-agente, en vee-agentskappe wat by die Landbouprodukte-agenteraad, oftewel APAC, geregistreer is, veilings kon hou of bywoon, op voorwaarde dat hulle die nodige dokumentasie onder die Veediefstalwet besit om vee te vervoer na en van die plek waar die veiling aangebied word.

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South Africa’s national food systems dialogue expanded their talks to the Northern Cape province on Monday where various discussions took place, highlighting the importance of food security and employment amid a world pandemic. Zandisile Luphahla, spokesperson of the Northern Cape Department of Agriculture, tells OFM News that the dialogue focused on identifying and planning strategies that can be implemented by the province to ensure prolonged sustainability within the sector.

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