{"id":21107,"date":"2021-07-12T15:33:41","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T13:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=21107"},"modified":"2021-07-12T15:33:41","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T13:33:41","slug":"tau-sa-dissatisfied-with-quarter-billion-rand-payments-to-safda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=21107","title":{"rendered":"TAU SA dissatisfied with quarter-billion rand payments to SAFDA"},"content":{"rendered":"

TAU SA is dissatisfied with evidence that the Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development has given more than R246 million to the South African Farmers Development Association (SAFDA) over the past five years.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

According to a parliamentary reply to the DA, Minister Thoko Didiza said her department paid R246 664 290 to SAFDA, but there is no clarity on how and how successful the spending of this is. The agreement between the two parties also contains a confidentiality clause, which raises even more questions about what these public funds were used for.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe are fairly convinced that the communities that were supposed to benefit from these funds are in no way better off,\u201d said Mr Henry Geldenhuys, President of TAU SA. \u201cAs with the financial assistance that the government paid out to small farmers at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is clear that those who allocate the funds have no insight into the food supply of South Africa. These farmers provide only 3% of the national demand for food. Giving the greatest financial support to these groups and subsistence farmers is in no way helping to provide food for the 68% urbanised population. \u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

It is clear to TAU SA that this type of assistance is merely an attempt to keep people dependent on the state. It is not sustainable and will not empower anyone in the long run.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe expect the government to seriously consider the future of the country,” he said. Geldenhuys. “The government is moving further and further away from possible solutions. The people of the country are also increasingly realising that there are no solutions within the policy framework of the ANC. Communities will increasingly have to create their own conditions for the future. \u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TAU SA is dissatisfied with evidence that the Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development has given more than R246 million to the South African Farmers Development Association (SAFDA) over the past five years. According to a parliamentary reply to the DA, Minister Thoko Didiza said her department paid R246 664 290 to SAFDA, … Continue reading “TAU SA dissatisfied with quarter-billion rand payments to SAFDA”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2961,"featured_media":21108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":"","source_text":"","source_url":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/tim-mossholder-4DLnYJQE6kw-unsplash1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2961"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21109,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21107\/revisions\/21109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}