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Original Post Date: 2003-11-21 Posted By: Jan
From the News Archives of: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org
Date & Time Posted: 11/21/2003 4:15:01 PM
S.Africa: Union calls for Speedy Land Reform
[Note. Subsistence farming is such a stupid idea. It basically takes us back 100 years. Subsistence farming normally doesn’t even properly feed the people doing it – and they are highly susceptible to starvation whenever there is the slightest problem with rain – which happens often here. Subsistence farming is a waste of land, and it ruins the land. There is no logical reason to call for this EXCEPT, if one has a HIDDEN AGENDA to destroy white commercial farmers. One day, this stupid idea will yet be tried in South Africa, and when it is, we will be destroyed just like Zimbabwe. Namibia will try it too. The Transvaal Agricultural Union, the largest farming organisation in SA has predicted that the current land reform will already result in a major decline in food production in South Africa in the next years. I’m not sure of the exact figures, but I think they predict a fall in South African agricultural output of about 50% in the next 10 years. In this article below, note all the bogus reasons and lies given as justification for this insanity. e.g “poverty alleviation, job creation”, etc, etc.
Food prices rocketed in SA in the last year because of the pressure on our food supplies because of the collapse in Zimbabwe. Zimbabweans come here and buy food by the millions – plus our Government has sent vast quantities of our maize up to Zimbabwe. Jan]
THE Food and Agricultural Workers Union (Fawu) has called on government to convene a land summit to seek ways of promoting subsistence farming and increase the pace of land reform.
Speaking after the union’s food and security conference yesterday, Fawu deputy general-secretary Katisha Masemola said land and agrarian reforms were key to fighting poverty and enhancing food security.
The call is an additional voice criticising the slow pace of SA’s land reform and appeals to government to make an extra effort in allocating lucrative agricultural land to emerging farmers.
The call is also based on the argument that there is a direct correlation between land inequality and poverty and that land reform was essential for job creation and poverty alleviation.
Fawu’s call can also be seen as a move to put pressure on government and stakeholders in the foodsupply chain to take steps that will reduce food prices, which rocketed last year. The alarming increase in food prices was attributed to a combination of factors such as a weakened rand in 2001, high international grain prices and increased demand for grain in southern Africa.
Although most of the conditions have disappeared this year, food prices remain fairly high, with retail prices not falling as sharply as agricultural commodity prices.
As a result, despite SA not being a food-insecure country, a significant number of people do not have access to three nutritious meals daily. This has been attributed to a combination of factors including a lack of funds which prevents people from buying food.
Prof Johann Kirsten, the head of University of Pretoria’s agricultural economics department, said SA’s land-reform programme needed to include a comprehensive empowerment package.
“Land reform, if rightly done, can be beneficial to employment creation and the alleviation of poverty,” he said.
Kirsten said, however, that comprehensive agricultural support programmes for new entrants were necessary to prevent land from being wasted. He said government also needed to promote small to medium-scale commercial farmers.
The union has also called on government to consider increasing the value of social grants, while also extending them to reach more people.
Fawu is proposing that governments increase the old-age grant from the current R700 to R850, while reducing the eligibility age to 55 years.
The child grant, currently valued at R140, and applicable to children from six to eight years should be increased to R200. Government announced earlier this year that this grant would be extended to include children up to age 14 by 2005. The union is proposing that children up to age 17 be eligible for the grant.
According to Fawu, the disability grant should also be raised to R800 and be automatically extended to all HIV-AIDS infected people who are unemployed.
Source: Bussiness Day, South Africa
URL: http://allafrica.com/stories/200311210126.htm…br>