Agri North West and the African Farmers’ Association of South Africa (AFASA) has joined other agricultural organisations in slamming the new agricultural proposals that government is considering.
Farm workers on commercial farms could own half of the farms according to a new proposal government was considering, Rapport reported on Sunday.
The proposal meant expropriating half of every commercial farm in South Africa and handing it over to farm workers, according to the report.
The newspaper was in possession of a document named “Final Policy Proposals for Strengthening the Relative Rights of People Working the Land”, which was discussed with agricultural organisations on Monday.
The historic owners would retain half of their farms and the state would pay for the 50 % taken for the workers, Rapport said.
The money would not be paid to the farm owners but into a trust aimed at investing and developing the farm for all shareholders of the farm.
