Food security is key for Gauteng agriculture
The Gauteng Department of Agriculture and Rural Developemt needs to sell itself better. It needs to show that agriculture is more than a rumour.
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Cash wanted to turn rural tourism dream into reality
The department of tourism has attempted to revive rural tourism, launching a new strategy which needs money in order to become a reality.
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Minister Joemat-Pettersson stalls tractor rollout
Suppliers are accusing the agriculture department of interfering in a tender meant for the provision of tractors to emerging black farmers.
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Wildlife crucial commodity in rural resource management
Many rural areas in South Africa are in dire straits. Turning this around is fertile ground for debate.
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Green dream for Easter Cape
Rural development conference hears how the area can become South Africa's bread basket.
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'We're always neglected'
Community members attending the Annual Rural Development Conference at WSU say they always feel neglected by government -- except at election time.
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New agriculture faculty for WSU
Walter Sisulu University will establish a faculty of agriculture and rural development by 2012, said Professor Noluthando Luswazi this week.
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Transkei from a mud hut
Martha Evans spends a day slumming it in poverty-stricken postcard Africa
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Ten municipal officials arrested for alleged fraud
Ten municipal officials were arrested on Wednesday for allegedly stealing R28-million intended for rural development in Mount Ayliff.
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