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  • 03 »
  • PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY (Tuesday, 03 March 2015)

CALL FOR SUPPORT FOR FARMING COMMUNITY IN BONNIEVALE (Draft Resolution)

  • ← 208 YEARS SINCE USA ACT TO PROHIBIT IMPORTATION OF SLAVES (Draft Resolution)
  • TRIBUTE DECEASED TO UMHLOBO WENENE FM PRESENTER, SABA MBIXANE (Member's Statement) →
  • Ms N V Nqweniso 3 Mar 2015 hansard

    Hon House Chair, I move without notice:

    That the House -

    (1) notes that since 8 May 2002 more than 147 members of the farming community in Bonnievale in the Western Cape have benefited from the land reform scheme under the infamous Ashton Small Scale Farmers Trust;

    (2) also notes that the community, to this day, still have no access to water, the most essential resource for running a successful farming business; (3) acknowledges that almost 13 years later a once successful and highly productive dairy and wheat farm, that brought joy to its recipients' lives and helped heal scars and fix the injustices of the apartheid era, is now struggling without government support;

    (4) further notes that the farming community has approached and exhausted every government channel they have been referred to for over a decade, and that all they have received have been empty promises;

    (5) also acknowledges that a successful land redistribution programme requires strong government support to ensure sustained success;

    (6) calls on government to provide the beneficiaries of the Ashton Small Scale Farmers Trust with funding, subsidies, skills development and other resources to ensure production on the land;

    (7) also calls on the Langeberg Local Municipality to further support small-scale farmers in the area by buying at least 50% of the food they produce for service provision in school feeding schemes, hospitals, prisons and other government institutions; and

    (8) finally calls on government to legislate for all its institutions to do the same.

    Agreed to.

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  • Chief Whip Of The Opposition hansard

    House Chairperson, may I address you in terms of Rule 95?

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    House Chairperson (Mr C T Frolick) hansard

    Yes, hon member.

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  • Chief Whip Of The Opposition hansard

    We have agreed on a process of circulation and at least one of the motions here today was not circulated and undercut one of the motions that we had circulated and received approval for. Can I ask you to reinforce the fact that parties need to circulate these motions so that it saves us duplicating one another's work here in the House? Thank you.

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    House Chairperson (Mr C T Frolick) hansard

    Hon member, it is a fair request. If that is the agreement, it must be implemented like that. Ensure that your motions are circulated - I think it is by 12 o'clock on the sitting day - and also that copies reach the NA Table. It is difficult for us to judge from here whether they have been circulated or not.

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  • ← 208 YEARS SINCE USA ACT TO PROHIBIT IMPORTATION OF SLAVES (Draft Resolution)
  • TRIBUTE DECEASED TO UMHLOBO WENENE FM PRESENTER, SABA MBIXANE (Member's Statement) →

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