SA's loss of commercial farmers worrisome:Ramphele

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It is “worrisome” that South Africa is losing many of its to countries to the north of it, academic and businesswoman Mamphela Ramphele said on Sunday.

Speaking at the opening of the Land Divided 2013 conference at the University of Cape Town, she said the country was poorer for this.

Fifteen years ago, there were 100,000 commercial farmers in South Africa, today, there were 36,000.

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Of course they are going north. There they don't have to deal with regular farmer killings, overpowered unions & a government hell bent on transferring farmland into the hands of those who don't know anything about farming.