New racial rules for agricultural exports demonstrate ANC’s obsession with race
12 November 2023
The new regulations on Black Economic Empowerment requirements for the agricultural sector demonstrate the ANC government’s absolute obsession with race.
Its implementation will not only severely hamper the export of products, but will also jeopardise the whole of South Africa’s food security seeing as it will deter young farmers from entering the agricultural sector.
According to a report in Rapport today (“Wit boerderye mag nie uitvoer, sê staat”), new rules that were quietly published in the Government Gazette will prevent farming enterprises that are deemed “too white” from exporting to Britian and the European Union (EU).
In terms of the regulations, farming enterprises will have to comply with strict empowerment requirements in order to obtain export permits.