Opening the 2024 Agbiz Congress held recently at Sun City, Dr Langa Simela, business development manager at Absa AgriBusiness and outgoing Agbiz vice-chairperson, said the agriculture sector was privileged to have an institution such as Agbiz with such a long history and culture of effective lobbying and advocacy and fostering an environment conducive to our agricultural businesses' prosperity.
“Equally, we are fortunate to operate in a political environment that allows us to perform our functions unhindered,” she pointed out.
She added that Agbiz had successfully influenced policies related to widening export markets, land reform, strengthening property rights, labour, development funding and other economic areas. “These successes were achieved in collaboration with bodies such as Business Unity South Africa, Nedlac, the Presidential Economic Advisory Council, the
