. There was an increasing trend among LRAD and SLAG farmers to buy out those beneficiaries who might not have had interest in farming. The delegation found these incidences in the Free State and Northern Cape. However, the delegation could not establish if there were clear policies to guide how beneficiaries could be bought out of the farms. In a particular case in the Northern Cape, Silvermoon Project, about 10 beneficiaries were bought out at a price of R5000.00 each. In Limpopo, the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development had initiated a project to deregister beneficiaries but the project had stopped at the time of the visit.