EDITORIAL: Mchunu’s populist water licensing lurch threatens brittle farms
Proposed new racial quotas will do nothing to transform South Africa’s farms — but they could destroy agriculture
07 June 2023 - 06:00
Not that we need any more signs that the governing ANC has zero compunction in betting the country’s future on its short-term populist interests, but water & sanitation minister Senzo Mchunu’s proposed new water licensing rules are a stark reminder of what’s at stake.
Mchunu’s draft rules, published on May 19, will require successful licensees to have between 25% and 75% black South African shareholding — a requirement that Agri SA legal and policy executive Janse Rabie says will have a “devastating effect” on the commercial agricultural sector...
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