Land claims, whether legitimate, fraudulent or opportunistic, can cripple farms, businesses and the families that depend on them. Thousands of land transactions, financing applications and plans to develop or expand have been scuttled by land claims, and this has cost South Africa incalculably in terms of jobs and rural development. That is why the family farmer network, the Southern African Agri Initiative (SAAI), decided to publish the largest digital land claims database online
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SAAI Discloses Land Claims Database Online! Files Contempt of Court Against Agriculture Minister Thoko Didiza
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Who Needs Corrupt Dirty Eskom? Mining Houses Going Off Grid & So Should You, But is ANC Waiting For a Bribe Before Issuing Solarfarm Approval?
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Big Mining Houses are tired of the constant disruption to production that Eskom mismanagement and corruption have caused and have already begun urgent planning to make power generation more stable, by using alternative solar panel energy generation.
Gold Fields’ plans show that they can obtain about 20% of their energy consumption from clean renewable solar, which can operate for the next two decades.
Gold Fields is planning a new “Sonplaas” which will be erected outside Johannesburg and is expected to be ready within three years, but unfortunately the corrupt ANC still needs to approve the plan, so now the mining house has to wait for the ANC minister to issue the certificate so that they can proceed with the project, which will probably mean “greasing some corrupt official’s palm”.
The Mine has lost Millions of Rand in recent weeks with the rolling power cuts, and the Minister’s approach of dragging their feet, or waiting for a bribe maybe, to approving the
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Dumb Twit!! SA will overcome load shedding like apartheid, says Ramaphosa
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President Cyril Ramaphosa says the energy crisis currently faced by the country will soon come to an end.
South Africans have expressed frustration, as Eskom battles to keep the lights on with stage 4 load shedding currently in place and was expected to last until 11pm.
Ramaphosa, speaking in Sharpeville on Thursday in his Human Rights Day speech, said he put measures in place to ensure that the country comes out of the dark.
“We will overcome this electricity crisis that is engulfing our country at this moment. We will overcome it just as we overcame the apartheid challenge,” he said.
HOW POWER CUTS COULD AFFECT SA’S GDP GROWTH
Severe planned power cuts at Eskom are expected to shave 0.3 percentage points off first-quarter GDP growth, Goldman Sachs said on Thursday.
The country has suffered from some of the worst power cuts in several years and a major challenge for Ramaphosa two months before an election at which he will try to reverse a decline
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