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Media Releases 2025

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11/21 2025
Festive-season safety guidelines for farms and farmers

Festive-season safety guidelines for farms and farmers

publish on November 21, 2025

As the festive season approaches, crime trends in the Free State — including farm attacks and other property-related offences —

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10/30 2025
Ideology Over Infrastructure: Farmers Pay the Price for Government Failure

Ideology Over Infrastructure: Farmers Pay the Price for Government Failure

publish on October 30, 2025

“While job creation remains a national imperative, it cannot be the key performance indicator (KPI) for the maintenance of critical

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10/27 2025
Vrystaat Landbou Urges Action as Foot-and-Mouth outbreaks escalate in Free State

Vrystaat Landbou Urges Action as Foot-and-Mouth outbreaks escalate in Free State

publish on October 27, 2025

Free State Agriculture (FSA) / Vrystaat Landbou notes with grave concern the escalating outbreak of Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) across several

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10/20 2025
Increase in seed theft from Free State farms

Increase in seed theft from Free State farms

publish on October 20, 2025

Free State Agriculture (FSA) has expressed concern about the increase in seed theft that has been occurring from farms in

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10/02 2025
Road Repair Funds Dry Up: Free State Farmers Forced to Foot the Bill

Road Repair Funds Dry Up: Free State Farmers Forced to Foot the Bill

publish on October 2, 2025

“One third into the government’s financial year and project funds are already depleted, leaving only enough to cover the Department’s

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09/30 2025
Farmers call for tech to combat cross-border crime

Farmers call for tech to combat cross-border crime

publish on September 30, 2025

Free State Agriculture (FSA) attended a consultation meeting with border farmers in the Wepener and Boesmanskop/Zastron areas on 29 September

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09/03 2025
Vrystaat Landbou rejects Ramaphosa’s land reform remarks

Vrystaat Landbou rejects Ramaphosa’s land reform remarks

publish on September 3, 2025

Vrystaat Landbou (VL) strongly rejects President Cyril Ramaphosa’s recent remarks in which he compared South Africa’s land reform efforts to

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07/17 2025
Free State Border Farmers Suffer From Intentional Arson

Free State Border Farmers Suffer From Intentional Arson

publish on July 17, 2025

Free State Agriculture (FSA) has expressed concern about the ongoing problem of veld fires on farms along the RSA/Lesotho border,

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07/15 2025
Confirmed Case of Foot-and-Mouth Disease in the Free State

Confirmed Case of Foot-and-Mouth Disease in the Free State

publish on July 15, 2025

Free State Agriculture (FSA) notes with concern the confirmed outbreak of Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) in the Moqhaka Local Municipality, within

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07/09 2025
Community to close R708-road over unsafe road conditions and ongoing government inaction

Community to close R708-road over unsafe road conditions and ongoing government inaction

publish on July 9, 2025

The Clocolan Agricultural Society, local taxi associations, and business leaders have issued formal notice of the planned closure of the

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05/28 2025
Illegal Dog Hunting: A Growing Concern for Farmers

Illegal Dog Hunting: A Growing Concern for Farmers

publish on May 28, 2025

Free State Agriculture’s Rural Safety Committee has taken serious note of the increasing incidents of illegal dog hunting, especially in

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05/02 2025
PSIRA amendments could harm the safety of farming communities

PSIRA amendments could harm the safety of farming communities

publish on May 2, 2025

Free State Agriculture has made a submission to PSIRA on proposed amendments to the Private Security Industry, which include strict

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02/17 2025
Biometric identification of animals used to combat livestock theft

Biometric identification of animals used to combat livestock theft

publish on February 17, 2025

Biometric identification of animals will be used by Free State Agriculture to address livestock theft, through collaboration with ID-Scan. Free

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02/10 2025
President Trump’s support for South Africa’s farmers welcomed

President Trump’s support for South Africa’s farmers welcomed

publish on February 10, 2025

Free State Agriculture welcomes the support pledged to the agricultural sector this week by President Trump. According to Francois Wilken,

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02/05 2025
National Minimum Wage 2025

National Minimum Wage 2025

publish on February 5, 2025

The Department of Labour and Employment has announced a 4.4% increase in the national minimum wage for farm workers effective

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02/03 2025
ESKOM price increase ‘unaffordable for agriculture’

ESKOM price increase ‘unaffordable for agriculture’

publish on February 3, 2025

“Free State farmers are extremely disappointed with the price increase approved by NERSA for ESKOM”, says Francois Wilken, president of

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01/24 2025
Expropriation Act: Free State Agriculture pledges to protect property rights

Expropriation Act: Free State Agriculture pledges to protect property rights

publish on January 24, 2025

After months of anticipation, the Expropriation Act has been signed into law by President Ramaphosa, but Free State Agriculture (FSA)

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01/17 2025
Farmers are the heart of the value chain

Farmers are the heart of the value chain

publish on January 17, 2025

By: Francois Wilken, Farmer & President of Free State Agriculture Which came first? The chicken or the egg? Or in

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