{"id":275633,"date":"2023-11-14T07:00:52","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T07:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=275633"},"modified":"2023-11-16T07:46:08","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T07:46:08","slug":"south-africas-too-white-farms-may-lose-eu-uk-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=275633","title":{"rendered":"South Africa\u2019s \u2018Too White\u2019 Farms May Lose EU, UK Access"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Adelaide Changole \u2013 Bloomberg Nov 12, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/farming-in-rhodesia-zimbabwe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-195473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/farming-in-rhodesia-zimbabwe.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/farming-in-rhodesia-zimbabwe.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/farming-in-rhodesia-zimbabwe-243x300.jpg 243w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>South African farms deemed \u201ctoo white\u201d will no longer be able to export their produce to the UK and the EU, according to postings in the Government Gazette, the Johannesburg-based City Press newspaper reported.<\/div>\n<p>Under the rules, farmers must meet specific Black economic empowerment targets to continuing obtaining export permits.<\/p>\n<p>The guidelines will apply to agricultural businesses with a minimum annual turnover of 10 million rand ($534,000) or more. Milk, cream, butter, fruit, nuts, sugar, jam, fruit pur\u00e9e, fruit juices, yeast, table grapes and wine are among the products affected, according to the notice.<\/p>\n<p>Southern African Agri Initiative (Saai), a farmers\u2019 lobbying group, told City Press that the rules will undermine investor security, job creation and growth in the nation\u2019s agricultural sector.<\/p>\n<p>Further, the measures fall \u201cfar outside the framework of internationally acceptable protocols, and the lobby will fight against it in every local and international forum, in courts and multilateral agencies of the UN and the African Union,\u201d City Press reported, citing Theo de Jager, head of Saai.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic Alliance, the biggest opposition party in South Africa, lodged a complaint with the trade offices of the EU and the UK, arguing that the regulations violate the rules of fair trade. South Africa\u2019s agreements with the EU and the UK are explicitly premised upon protecting human rights, democratic principles and the rule of law, the alliance said.<\/p>\n<p>South African agricultural exports were about 240 billion rand ($12.8 billion) in 2022, with 20% headed to the EU and 4% to the UK.<\/p>\n<p>South African companies have been encouraged to adopt Black-empowerment plans to comply with government policies aimed at redressing financial inequality stemming from the apartheid era.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bnnbloomberg.ca\/south-africa-s-too-white-farms-may-lose-eu-uk-access-1.1997544\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s Black political elite obviously haven\u2019t learned from their northern neighbour, Zimbabwe. Under Robert Mugabe, the nation that was once regarded as \u2018Africa\u2019s breadbasket\u2019 was reduced to subsisting on international handouts after it seized white owned farms and evicted the owners. Does a similar fate await South Africa? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-africa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=275633"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275663,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275633\/revisions\/275663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=275633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=275633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=275633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}