This was the message to Parliament from more than 107 000 citizens who took part in Free State Agriculture's public campaign to protect property rights and oppose the constitutional amendment of Section 25. Free State Agriculture's president, Francois Wilken, says in a statement that the support from the public shows that the organisation's view on property rights has a much wider support base than just the organisation's agricultural members. The organisation submitted its opposing comments to the parliamentary committee on Friday 13 August. Its reasons for rejecting amendments to Section 25, included local and international investment uncertainty that will further impede employment growth, as well as the concern that the amendment will open the gap for zero compensation of all property.

Four cheetahs are still on the loose in the John Taolo Gaetsewe area in the Northern Cape. Provincial Department of Agriculture, Environmental Affairs, Rural Development and Land Reform spokesperson, Zandisike Luphahla, says that the cheetahs were earlier spotted in the areas of Tsineng, Matlhwaring and the Ga-Sese River. He adds that the department is working closely with the cheetah outreach foundation as well as the police to ensure the animals are rescued. Luphahla pleads with the public to not inflict any harm on the cheetahs but instead alert the police and the department once the cheetahs are spotted. Meanwhile, OFM News correspondent, Roderick Titus, reports that Luphahla says the Cheetahs are believed to be a mother and her three cubs that most likely come from neighbouring Botswana. He adds that fences at a nature reserve were destroyed during fires, but the origins of the animals still need to be confirmed.

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The spirits brand, Glenfiddich, now operates its truck fleet with self-produced biogas. It is extracted from the residues of whisky production using a technology developed by William Grant & Sons. Whiskey.com reports this low-carbon gas produces only minor emissions. Stuart Watts, director of the William Grant & Sons distilleries, explained it has taken more than a decade for Glenfiddich to become the first distillery to process 100 per cent of its waste residues on its own site, then to be the first to process those residues into biogas fuel to power its trucks. Watts says they are proud of these renewable energy breakthroughs in their industry, as they scale up the decarbonising benefits of this closed-loop process across their entire transport fleet.

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