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88 Sunflower crop quality of the 2014/2015 production season
89 Graanfamilie se tuiste in Pretoria
93 Looking for sustainable strategies for a profitable silo industry
94 Grain SA/Sasol photo competition: Among the fields of gold
97 Waarheen met LNR-KGI se navorsing?
98 Goeie arbeidspraktyde en -verhoudinge in die kollig
– Dankbaar vir begrafnispolis
100 Hoop vir die nuwe plantseisoen
100 Bekende produsent sterf aan kanker
101 Sjoe, wat ‘n rekord!
102 Global chemical company helps to shape agriculture in changing times
104 Droogte duur voort – hulp steeds nodig
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4 Graan SA Standpunt: Moenie fokus verloor nie
5 Grain SA Point of View: Do not lose focus
5 Uit die Woord
7 Om die waarheid te sê...
7 Op die kantlyn
107 Wiele vir die plaas: Nuwe outomatiese modelle by Ranger-reeks gevoeg
108 E-posse: Die groot gelykmaker
PAN 5R-791BR is ‘n sterk meerkoppige baster
– goed aangepas vir droëlandaanplantings.
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w ho is running the Republic? If anyone wants to
write a book about the state of South Africa at this
present moment, it will be the perfect title for that
book. It is a question that has been on the top of
everybody’smind since earlyAugust,when results
of the local government elections best reflected
the apathy with the way the country has been run over the past
decade. These results should have served as a wake-up call for
the ruling party as they were the clearest evidence yet that the
ANC is in a serious stateofdecline.
Before those results were delivered, President Jacob Zuma was in
‘full campaignmode’, verybullishonhisparty’sprospects andonce
again leading his cheerleaders in with mesmerising dance skills.
H the absolute personification of the term ‘Asinavalo’, which
The narrative that surrounded President Zuma’s axing of his well-
respected Finance Minister, Mr Nhlanhla Nene, was simply that of
state capture. People closest to the president, and not necessarily
inside the governing party, were trying to raid Treasury. By being
forced to re-appoint Mr Pravin Gordhan instead of his first choice,
MrDesmond vanRooyen, it seemed aplanwas foiled.
That whole debacle was perhaps one of the biggest bungles in
his presidency – results of the local government elections served
to prove that. I’d go as far as to suggest that it was even more
disastrous than the Nkandla matter, which is saying something
in itself.
After losing control of Johannesburg and Pretoria, you’d think
the ANC along with its president, would be trying to get to grips
f h i t s But instead the
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