Black farms to 'collapse'

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The government has issued a call for strategic partners to help turn around 852 land reform projects at risk of collapse, Rural Development and Land Reform Minister Gugile Nkwinti said on Monday.

"To date, 852 distressed farms have been advertised for expressions of interest by either mentors or strategic partners interested in making them commercially viable and productive across the country," he said in reply to a parliamentary question.

Nkwinti said the department had received tenders for just under half of the distressed farms.

"A total of 411 farms were selected from the 852 advertised farms by both strategic mentors through normal tender processes and direct sourcing."

Asked by the Congress of the People whether his department had been successful in ensuring that all 2.9 million hectares of land given to reform beneficiaries remained productive, he answered: "No."

Nkwinti said the department had therefore been forced to introduce its Recapitalisation and Development Programme to help failing land reform projects become viable.

To this end, 25 percent of the budget of R900-million for land acquisition in the last financial year was set aside for recapitalisation of existing projects. The department hoped to recapitalise 504 farms.

Nkwinti has been frank about the failures of the land reform programme and has acknowledged that the state will not achieve its aim of transferring 30 percent of white-owned land to emerging black farmers by 2014.

The release of his long-awaited green paper outlining a new approach to land reform has been repeatedly delayed.




interesting. what does julius have to say about this? he still wants more land reform i guess.
 
LOL

Bring on the farm grabs!!!!!!!

Zimbabwe showed us that handing out farms to idiots would result in a booming economy.
 
"Working together we can do more"

However without incentive why would a farmer waste months of his life training someone on farm management?
 
Give them to Julius! I am sure he can run them all profitably. I'm sure he can. He's a great guy!
 
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yah just get the farms on track again then be booted off AGAIN!
hahahaha WTF ever
 
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ROFL!

This is old news though.

A similar article from 2006:

ZOE DANIEL: Across Limpopo, many once thriving fruit farms are now idle.

Orchards are hardly visible through the weeds, and men and women who were employed in agriculture no longer have jobs.

The failed properties were among the first handed over to the black community under the Government's policy of land reform. But the idea simply didn't work.

PATRICK MATJOKOTJA: There was a problem of reluctant beneficiaries, you see. Some wanted development, some don't want development, were divided into maybe three groups. But in the end one family.

ZOE DANIEL: Patrick Matjokotja is the chairman of La Boheme - a farm that was bought with about a million dollars in government grants by an extended family of 383 people, eight years ago.

Many of the family members were elderly. They'd been directly dispossessed of land under apartheid and they wanted some back, but they didn't want to farm it.

As a result a property that once had turnover of almost a million dollars a year, now grows nothing.

PATRICK MATJOKOTJA: The first time we came here was producing every vegetable.

ZOE DANIEL: It's one of 71 farms in this area bought for black families early in the land reform process. Now the Government is "deregistering" those who have failed.

Jane Thupana is the General Manager of Land reform in Limpopo Province.

JANE THUPANA: The grant was a household grant of 16,000, and you'd know that no household would acquire any piece of agricultural land for that amount. So in a way they were indirectly forced to lump together.

People were called to come forward, and deregister, because most of these people had not been farming ever since they acquired these properties.

ZOE DANIEL: Recently the Government has toughened its stance on land reform. It's begun forcing white farmers to sell their properties as it strives to meet a deadline to hand a third of white farmland back by 2014.

But there are increasing concerns about food security and economic stability if agricultural industries fail.
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They should deal with it using the African way. Taking over the rest of the farms , run them as well to the ground . Take pictures of hungry children and run to the Donors to get money .
 
digital soldier the article you posted was from 2006. i posted one dated 2011. by now many many many ma.........more farms have been run into the ground :whistle:
 
If you take land from any person (any colour) you should educate them! If they gave me a farm of course it would collapse.
 
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