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    LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

    Nov 26, 2020 3 minutes
    – PETER MASHALA

    Two years ago, former president Jacob Zuma announced a programme that would commercialise 450 black smallholder farmers every year. This was the state’s attempt at radical socioeconomic transformation, we were told. The idea was to support carefully selected semi-commercial farmers for five years until they were fully fledged, large-scale commercial farmers, with the aim of having at least 2 250 such farmers by 2022. About R220 million was allocated to the project for the 2018/19 financial year.

    So what happened? Who are, I spoke to four of probably the most progressive black farmers in the country. All of them have graduated from being smallholder farmers to commercial farmers over the past 10 years and none were beneficiaries of Zuma’s project.

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