BUSINESS MAVERICK: Presidency gains insight into grain farming and the state of our roads

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BUSINESS MAVERICK: Presidency gains insight into grain farming and the state of our roads By Ed Stoddard

There was a first this week at the annual Nampo agricultural show in the heart of South Africa’s maize belt. An official from the Presidency accepted an invitation and rocked up.And guess what? He got a puncture because of the potholes,” Jannie de Villiers, Grain SA’s CEO, toldthe sidelines of Nampo. “And he said to me ‘Jannie, now I understand why farmers are mad at us, why can’t we fix that road?’ For us this is an unintended consequence of Nampo.

One area that looks promising is blended financing models for emerging farmers. This is a well-known problem: farmers in the former homelands can’t access finance because they lack title deeds, and the communal lands they till are effectively run by tribal chiefs. Also, many of the commercial farms that have been transferred to black farmers are owned by the state, so they also lack the collateral required to get bank loans.

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Presidency filled with 2000 useless ANC cadres . Revert back to senior government departments in Uniob Buildings and get rid of these oxygen tbieves. Save billions in state expenditure.

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