Rural healthcare is crying out for a good plan and a real budget
- 15 Feb 2013 00:00 - Desmond Kegakilwe
- Financial mismanagement, weak leadership and understaffed facilities are not unique to the Eastern Cape.
Land redistribution proposals to be implemented
- 08 Dec 2012 19:24 - Sapa
- Proposals for the redistribution of land found in the government's land reform green paper would come into effect as early as March next year.
Stimulating the rural economy
- 28 Jul 2012 13:27 - Teigue Payne
- Access to wholesalers and retailers can make all the difference between poverty and employment, writes Teigue Payne.
The Traditional Courts Bill must start with women's rights
- 08 Jun 2012 00:01 - Shirhami Shirinda
- Shirhami Shirinda, a member of a rural royal family, argues that the Traditional Courts Bill will only serve to disempower many women.
Food security is key for Gauteng agriculture
- 03 May 2012 16:54 - Staff Reporter
- The Gauteng Department of Agriculture and Rural Developemt needs to sell itself better. It needs to show that agriculture is more than a rumour.
Cash wanted to turn rural tourism dream into reality
- 13 Apr 2012 00:00 - Phillip De Wet
- The department of tourism has attempted to revive rural tourism, launching a new strategy which needs money in order to become a reality.
Minister Joemat-Pettersson stalls tractor rollout
- 04 Nov 2011 07:16 - Charles Molele
- Suppliers are accusing the agriculture department of interfering in a tender meant for the provision of tractors to emerging black farmers.
Wildlife crucial commodity in rural resource management
- 24 Jan 2011 14:28 - Staff Reporter
- Many rural areas in South Africa are in dire straits. Turning this around is fertile ground for debate.
Green dream for Easter Cape
- 22 Oct 2010 11:29 - Kamogelo Seekoei
- Rural development conference hears how the area can become South Africa's bread basket.
'We're always neglected'
- 01 Oct 2010 11:12 - Kamogelo Seekoei
- Community members attending the Annual Rural Development Conference at WSU say they always feel neglected by government -- except at election time.
New agriculture faculty for WSU
- 29 Sep 2010 11:17 - Kamogelo Seekoei
- Walter Sisulu University will establish a faculty of agriculture and rural development by 2012, said Professor Noluthando Luswazi this week.
Transkei from a mud hut
- 27 May 2009 11:04 - Martha Evans
- Martha Evans spends a day slumming it in poverty-stricken postcard Africa
Ten municipal officials arrested for alleged fraud
- 18 Mar 2009 15:22 - Staff Reporter
- Ten municipal officials were arrested on Wednesday for allegedly stealing R28-million intended for rural development in Mount Ayliff.
