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KwanaluCongress2013
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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
submitted to Parliament.21
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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Proudly
Kwanalu
The voice of Agriculture
Die stem van Landbou
Izwe Lezokulima
in
KwaZulu-Natal
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