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Podcast: Update@Noon
Episode: 15,000 small farmers' futures hang in balance – SAFDA
Description: The South African Farmers Development Association, SAFDA, has expressed serious concern after Tongaat Hulett filed for provisional liquidation. This comes after Tongaat Hulett's the failure to secure funding from the IDC and the lapse of its sale agreement with Vision Sugar. South African Farmers Development Association says the move threatens the livelihoods of thousands of small-scale sugarcane farmers in KwaZulu-Natal who supply the company's three mills at Maidstone, Amatigulu, and Felixton. Bongiwe Zwane spoke to Dr Siyabonga Madlala, Executive Chair at the The South African Farmers Development Association