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State-owned banks urged to help the poor
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Smallholder farmers encouraged to join new Farmer Register
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Looting on farms has left farmers and farm workers living in fear, agricultural associations say.
Farmers are bearing the brunt of the unrest, especially in KwaZulu-Natal, where they are unable to harvest and transport produce - but they have also lost livestock and crops to the looting sweeping across the province.
Black Farmers Association of South Africa president Dr Lennox Mtshagi said the organisation s members had seen livestock and equipment looted from their farms. Support independent journalism Subscribe to News24 for just R75 per month to read all our investigative and in-depth journalism.
Sahpra denies white bias in medicinal cannabis licensing
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“The reality of marijuana is that it is a cash crop, it s the last remaining mineral that hasn t gone underground like gold, coal, copper. It s a natural resource, it s a green gold, a gold of the poor.
“Both the rich and the poor can benefit from it. It will bring our people to the cannabis economy. It will help to open the black cannabis industries and help to decrease the level of poverty and increase the level of employment,” he said.
Bfasa said in a statement that Sahpra s management, allegedly under instruction from health minister Zweli Mkhize, was granting licences to affluent white people and foreign-owned companies without considering indigenous people, monarchs, traditional healers, rural agriculture and Rastafarians.