NEWCASTLE ADVERTISER: KZN Premier to appoint farm matters team
The greater farming community was allowed to pose questions and raise concerns directly with the Premier.
Premier of KwaZulu-Natal, Sihle Zikalala believes the relationship between farm owners, farm workers and farm dwellers is key to understanding problems within the sector.
Speaking at a ‘solution-seeking engagement’ at the Farmers Hall today (September 19), Zikalala expressed his belief that dealing with peripheral issues like police response, land claims and tension was critical to finding solutions to farm violence, and committed to having officials intervene in matters raised by the community during the engagement.
The meeting was also attended by MEC for Agriculture and Rural Development, Bongiwe Sithole-Moloi, high-ranking Government officials, representatives of farming associations, farm workers and dwellers, local council, national media houses and the labour sector.
The meeting follows the murders of Glen and Vida Rafferty on August 29, which is said to have ‘laid bare the menacing and festering tensions constantly engulfing the farming communities in Normandien…”
For the full report on the engagement, including what the farming community had to say, read this week’s edition of the Newcastle Advertiser.
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