Jacques Snyman for Soil Remineralisation

South Africans need to be re-equipped with the tools and know-how to live off their land. Education and natural soil regeneration and fertility programmes should be a top priority. The best way to ensure a healthy populace is to have them eat naturally grown, mineral and nutrient dense foodstuffs. Living on a half liter of Coke and a half loaf of white bread is a recipe for disaster and a spate of degenerative disease.

Mike

Till the land does what?

Porcupine_Quill

Jeff, you are such a good person but your marriage into wealth and the trappings of power seem to be addling your brain badly already!

The rural people as well as city & urban folk need to understand that planning and foresight make hard work a productive wealth creating result, starting with disciplining kids from a very early age.

Not the current manner of letting children grow into early age fornicators sitting around on pavements until they can decide who to rob next!

jagatheesa

Now you talking, get it going, back to the land and future is
assured.

Bellybaby

Give a man a carrot today and he starves to death tomorrow, teach a man to farm carrots and he feeds his community forever? Well, Porcupine Quill, while I don’t generally agree with much that emanates form ANC mouths, I do comprehend Mr Radebe’s “vision”. Mozambique has a structure whereby the farmers make use of the land for a period of time, if they fail to produce the goods, the land is passed on to those eagerly awaiting to try their hand – thus those who aren’t willing to put the effort required (as so many of our brothers appear to be), are penalised, the intrepid folk who work hard are rewarded with extended land contracts. Surely this is a logical and appropriate route to take in this country? This would appease the hard working Lilywhites and inspire the suffering rural communities to become productive contributors to our Great Nation. As for the fornicating youth? Perhaps they will be more “productive” weeding back-yard veggies patches instead of lolling about. And Porcupine Quill, please remember that it’s much easier to discipline kids when you are around and available. Kids can’t be disciplined by mothers who get up at 4am to go to work and come home at 8 in the evening, worn out and beaten. Kids don’t get disciplined father’s who sit on streets “looking” for work or sitting in shebeens! Mr Radebe is trying to start some where. POsitive support goes a lot further than negative criticism.

Madimetja

Till the land?
You first need to own the land and then till the land. And with the seemingly failing land transformation. It seems futile to actually take tilling seriously!!!

Lynton Steyn

Great work! I agreed that only once the rural poor have developed some means of sustainablity can they begin to address the cultural challenges they face. Their “spiritual independence” has not yet been realised as they cling to the false promises of those in positions unable to affect any change,

Thabo

Yep, till the land like all those successful farmers throughout Africa.
Get the land, and sit back and beg from the west. That is African farming

donorfatigued

I can see many more failed land-reditribution schemes looming!

Wonderful farming enterprises built up over decades ruined with a year or two!

Could this be why SA is now, for the first time in modern history a nett importer of food? Just a coincidence perhaps?

cynical

unfortunately we do not yet have one black large-scale farmer. soon, there may be one. but there are none yet, not in the whole of africa.

feeding the nation is a lot more serious than most think. food security should come before oil security and energy security. this means we are stuck with those hard-working white afrikaners, many of who treat their labourers very badly. can we not improve this system somehow ? those racist afrikaners are one of the core problems in this country: blacks want to kill them, take their land, and then also kill all other whiteys because of these racist afrikaans backwards fools who perpetuate hate, and who make my friend julius malema continue the cycle of hatred, division, crime and violence.

all white racists, besides the farmers who are like that, do not realise how much of a problem they cause. but black racists are just the same, and there are more of them. you see now how bad it is to teach racism to your kids.

but sure there are many farmers who do try and operate on a fair and humanitarian basis. still, their labourers earn very little.

but what can you do ? they make a lot of food. and then when you ask that poor man buying 1kg of Ace maize meal, where does that stuff come from? he says “I don’t know”.

the long-term solution seems to be the education of our children.

meantime we have julius malema preaching hate because of the racist whites and whites becoming more racist because of julius malema and others in the corrupt lying greedy anc.

therefore we go the same way as zim. the long-term solution will be too late. a solution is the mozambique model described above: let’s see you use the land: if you fail, you’re out; next! —until we get a pool of useful farmers. they are essential.