The Western Cape agriculture sector suffered more than R1 billion in infrastructure damage during recent flooding, and now the provincial agriculture department wants to have the area declared a disaster to free up funding for repairs.
If new regulation proposals are approved, only farmers with a minimum black shareholding of between 25% to 75% will be able to get a water use licence, depending on how much water they extract and store, the federation said.
The seven men from Pampoenkraal, near Mkhondo in Mpumalanga, accused of murdering the Coka brothers, Zenzele and Amos, have been acquitted on all the charges against them.