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Introduction

• Issue Management

– Natural Resources

– Labour and Social investment

– Commercial Policy

– Transformation and Rural Development

– Rural Safety & Security

– Communication and image building

• Organizational

• General

Kwanalu ResolutionCongress appeals to Government to recognise the agricultural

sector as one of KwaZulu-Natal’s greatest assets.

The on-going challenges of, amongst others, land reform,

unemployment, lawlessness, a perceived lack of respect for

property, rising input costs (including administered prices such as

those associated with water and electricity), a degenerating

infrastructure, all lead to a lack of investment in agriculture and

the perpetuation of a generally negative outlook.

Congress calls on Government to create an environment which is

conducive to the creation of employment opportunities, growth,

development and the improvement of confidence in and within

the agricultural sector.3

Environment

• NDP

• PDP

• PGDS

• NAREG

• Legislation, policy

• Political

• Labour

• Pricing / Markets / Imports

• Administrative compliance

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Natural resources

• Eskom

– tariffs, line charges, meter dragging, alternative energy, subsidies

• Water

– of specific concern are delays and non-approval of water licences,

– the farmer’s ability to expand his irrigation or farming enterprise is inhibited

• Protection of Agricultural land

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Labour & Social Investment

• Labour unrest

• Consultation

– Kwanalu survey

– Legal opinion

• Determination MW for FW

– Restructuring

– Business review

• Labour inspections and compliance

• Administrative compliance

– WCA

– PAYE/Tax

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Number of job losses - Agriculture

(Skilled)

• 4th Quarter of 2012 14,918 ,481

• 1st Quarter of 2013 13,583 1,168

• 2nd Quarter of 2013 16,855 ,473

THE KWAZULU NATAL LABOUR MARKET – A PERFORMANCE AND TREND ANALYSIS1 UPDATE 4

Clive Coetzee, General Manager: IMES Unit, Economist

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“Strike season seems

more predictable

than the weather!!!”

Commercial Policy

• Commodity specific

• Diesel rebate

– Draft log book

• MPRA

– Amendment bill

– Technical irregularities

• MRPDA

– Prospecting

– Fracking

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Creating a Community of Practice

in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

A Templeton Foundation Project

of

University of Missouri

Project TeamJere Gilles – Co

Project Leader.

Rural Sociologist

Willi Meyers –Project Leader.

Agricultural Economist and Director

of International Programs

Bill Folk – Co

Project

Investigator.

BiochemistKen Schneeberger– Co

Project Investigator.

Agricultural Economist

Mary Hendrickson– Co

Project Investigator.

Rural Sociologist

Sandy La Marque– Co

Project Investigator.

CEO - Kwanalu

Roy Dandala

Other SA Collaborators:

Marnus Gouse – U of Pretoria

Jeremy Klaasen – U of W. Cape

Hester Vermeulen– BFAP

Faculty from U of KZN

Our Project Goals:

• To understand the social and economic aspects of food

security in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

• To share knowledge and experience from different

perspectives – farmers, rural communities, research and

development communities, private enterprise and policy

makers – on GM crops.

• To develop knowledge systems around the production and

consumption of GM crops that increase food security while

providing opportunities for sustainable rural livelihoods.

• In no way are we promoting GM crops but rather gaining an

understanding

Method: Community of Practice

• Participatory Research but different:

– Define research and policy priorities

– Develop of farmer capacity to work with/researchers and vice versa

– Create feedback mechanism and not just improve livelihoods of

farmers

• Farmers: Experiment with new technology & New relationships

• Researchers: More hands-on experience with farmers’ use and application

of knowledge and experience

• Community members: Observe experience with technology, community

needs prioritized in research and policy

• Policy-makers: Direct knowledge of impacts of technology in communities

for developing supportive policies and institutions.

• Private Industry: Observation of technology application, identification of

potential commercial needs

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Changes in Farmer Knowledge

First time use of soil tests

Saved money on fertilizers

Purchased backpack sprayers for

pesticide application

New Relationships

Farmers →GRAIN SA, Seed

companies

Kwanalu→Dept of Ag & Farm

advisors

New networks are forming

Outcomes First Year

Capacity-Building

• Kwanalu→ Understand

emerging farmer needs &

wants

• Emerging Farmers → Voice in

national discussions as they

join Kwanalu

Researchers

• Farmer knowledge of GM and

general maize production

• Understand farmer goals -

need mealies & maize

• Focus on agronomic practices

rather than GM technology?

Outcomes First Year

Farmers’ Knowledge of improved maize

production practices

Storage issues as well as access to markets

Credit issues /

Access to finance

Barriers & Challenges

Future Directions

Include commercial

farmers from Kwanalu in the CoP

Incorporate the lessons learned

from the first year into the future

Community of Practice works:� Helped connect smallholders together� Built relationships among farmers, organizations,

researchers and government� Demonstration trial alone would not have built the

relationships or encouraged the networking that we have seen

Lessons Learned

Samples from both commercial milled

maize and smallholder maize show

significant quantities of GM.

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Transformation & Rural Development

• Land

• Rural Development Initiatives

– Templeton Project

– Role in projects

– Development Desk

• Off farm settlement options

• Legislation, policies

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NAREG Process on Green Paper on Land Reform

• Land Management Commission (LMC)

• Land Rights Management Board (LRMB)

• Valuer-General

• State-owned land

• Limitations on private land (private ownership with certain restrictions and

leased land, land ceilings and the right of first refusal)

• Limitations of foreigner-owned land

• Communal land Tenure

• Legislative Amendments

– Restitution Act &

– Communal Property Associations Act

• Working group on rural financing

• “Project 2013” Legacy of the Native Land Act of 1913

• Ministers ad hoc legal committee to look at the constitutionality of certain

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Drafts

• Strengthening the relative rights of people working the land

• Land tenure security policy for commercial farming areas

• Minister wheel

• State land disposal policy

• Policy for recapitalization

• Agricultural landholding policy framework: Setting upper and

lower bands for the ownership and use of agricultural

landholdings

• A citizens manual on “how to lodge a restitution claim”

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Bills

• Expropriation Bill

• The Property Valuation Bill

– redrafted and renamed the Regulation Property Valuation

Bill.

– scope of the Bill has been narrowed to

• only the regulation and monitoring of valuations of

agricultural property and property identified for land

reform.

• Restitution of Land Rights Amendment Bill

– new cut-off date for lodgement of claims - 31st December

2018

– approved by Cabinet on 4th September and has now been

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State disruption of the land market

• 1998 – 2013 (15 years)

• 2 presidential deadlines • 2011 est.13 000 farms in freezer box

• Little or no progress in the last 4 years• Not available for redistribution• Transferred farms taken out of production

• Uncertainty of claims led to losses in investment in the sector• Will continue if reopening takes place

• The longer the window period the longer uncertainty & • lack of investment & impact on production

• Extremely poor track record in court• takes years, expensive (unaffordable)

• Fiscal implication of reopening• Plagued with implementation challenges

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NUMBER OF OUTSTANDING CLAIMS IN KZN

Report to the Ad Hoc Committee on Coordinated Oversight on the Reversing the Legacy of the Native Land Act - 19 August 2013

Claim

Rural

Claims

Urban

Dismiss

ed

Number of

ungazetted

claims

Number of

gazetted

but not yet

settled

claims

Number of

claims

partially

settled (in

phases)

Number of

fully settled

claims (but

not finalised)

Number

of

finalised

2196 13641 141 1463 665 1244 3053 11540

Way Forward• Reconciliation / Audit

– Restitution and/ vs labour tenant claims

– Updated

– outstanding & settled claims register

– mapping & ownership

– Gazetted & degazetted

– Competing claims

• Degazetting of claims must be expedited

• Mediation and arbitration

• Competent staff, resources

• Budget alignment

• Regular communication and structured meetings

• Transparent & honest process

• True commitment to resolution

• Condonation of late claim

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In view of the past experience with

restitution, and particularly the capacity,

budgetary and corruption-related problems

and the high number of failed projects,

Kwanalu is of the opinion that it would be

unwise to re-open the claims process.

Such a step will also create huge

uncertainty, which hold serious

consequences for further investment

in farming and food security.

Province

Province

Extent

State

Owned

Land Extent

(Ha)

Private

Owned

Land Extent

(Ha)

State

Land %

Private

Land % Total Extent

Unaccount

ed Extent

Unaccount

ed Extent

Eastern Cape 16891700 1510553 11370084 9% 67% 12880637 4011063 24%

Free State 12982600 845084 11857160 7% 91% 12702244 280356 2%

Gauteng 1817800 304137 1181518 17% 65% 1485655 332145 18%

KwaZulu-Natal 9332800 4695245 4297235 50% 46% 8992480 340320 4%

Limpopo 12575600 2551790 8844083 20% 70% 11395872 1179728 9%

Mpumalanga 7649500 1875146 4805344 25% 63% 6680490 969010 13%

North West 10488100 2409778 7481942 23% 71% 9891720 596380 6%

Northern Cape 37288800 1829347 35210998 5% 94% 37040345 248455 1%

Western Cape 12946300 1040801 11502427 8% 89% 12543228 403072 3%

Totals121973200 17061882 96550791 14% 79% 113612673 8360527 7%

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Table 2 Figures as presented by the Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform during the debate on his department's Budget Vote, Issued by Parliament, August 21 2013

Note:

All trust and communal land is captured as state land

Unaccounted extent is the difference between the province extent and the sum of private land and state land. In some provinces the unaccounted extent is as a result of the existence of

surveyed and unregistered state land

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Province

State

owned land

extent ha

Private

owned land

extent ha

State

land %

Private

land %

Total extent

(not incl

una)

Unaccoun

ted extent

ha

Unaccou

nted

extent

Govt audit 4,695,245 4,297,235 50% 46% 8,992,480 34,032 4%

Kwanalu 4,286,014 1,658,203 46.29%

15.61%w

2.3%b

17.90%

5,944,217 3,314,764 35.80%

Notes: Govt Audit

Figures as presented by the Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform during the

debate on his department's Budget Vote, Issued by Parliament, August 21 2013

Note:

All trust and communal land is captured as state land

Unaccounted extent is the difference between the province extent and the sum of private land

and state land. In some provinces the unaccounted extent is as a result of the existence of

surveyed and unregistered state land

Notes: Kwanalu audit

Line 2 - Takes all unallocated land in private and combines as a total in unaccounted

Line 2 - Private land of 15.61% is white owned, 2.3% black owned

Summary:

• There are dangerous perceptions created here and which is constantly used in arguments.

• For eg. 14% state and 79% private = white/ foreign

• Private does not = white

• Some questions:– How is private land defined

– How is foreign land identified

– How is BEE accounted

– How are trusts and companies accounted for

– How is by race accounted for

– How is land reform deals for eg. PLAS, restitution, other forms accounted – (state or private?)

– How is financial compensation vs hectares accounted calculated

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Kwanalu strives for,

“A united and

prosperous

agricultural sector.”

Supports sustainable

and economically

productive reform.

• Represent Kwanalu on the Provincial structures and the National Safety Committee

• Gather details and statistics of crime

• Submissions for proactive action and operational planning

• Assist members with basic advice on criminal matters,

legal procedures and steps to be taken

• Communication with media

• Continuation of service and follow up

• Kwanalu Guideline Documents

• Provincial Stock Theft Forum

• Provincial Non-Ferrous metal working group

• Provide expert evidence in court cases

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Kwanalu Safety & Security Desk

Kwanalu Statistics Farm Murders & Attacks 2007- 26 August 2013

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Notes:

2013 Statistics not verified, Kwanalu statistics, inclusive of all on farm, Less than 10% of victims are Kwanalu members numerous attacks

are on small holdings, Eg. 21 cases in Midlands – convictions in 20 of the 21 (1 case closed as suspect deceased)

• Communication

– Internal

– External – media. TV. Radio. website etc.

• heightened media presence

• Public at large

• Consumer education

• International media

• other

• Media

– Proactive

– Responsive

• Oppose “anti-agriculture” propaganda

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Communication & Image Building

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Kwanalu website

1- 31/08/2012

• Hits – 27695

• Hits per day - 893

• Visitors – 8450

• Popular dw- Tues & Wed

• Time of day - 07:00 &

12:00 (peak)

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1- 31/08/2013

• Hits – 38838

• Hits per day - 1252

• Visitors – 9453

• Popular dw- Wed & Thurs

• Time of day - 07:00 &

12:00 (peak)

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Organisational

• Aims and objectives of the union

• Represent our members on all issues affecting them in the sector

• Manage the affairs of the union according to the constitution

• Membership – Policy documents

– Associations and affiliate relationships

• Finances and resources - GAP – Legal fund

– Projects

– General management

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