Sunday Tribune reports that the ANC national executive committee (NEC) last weekend proposed that the government should buy poultry farms that were being forced to close down because of chicken imports.  

Secretary-general Gwede Mantashe said the government must intervene to prevent the job losses being experienced in the poultry industry and that the state would have to find new markets for poultry from those farms.  Retrenchments would affect KwaZulu-Natal more than elsewhere as poultry farms were major employers in the province.  Meanwhile, the Food and Allied Workers Union (Fawu) and its industry co-stakeholders marched to the EU embassy in Pretoria on Wednesday to seek immediate intervention in the local poultry job loss crisis.

• This short report is at Sunday Tribune
• Read too, No gold at end of rainbow for SA's beleaguered chicken industry, at Business Times
• And also, Severe challenges impact Rainbow Chicken Limited, at Business Report
• As well as, Fawu marches to EU embassy on Wednesday over poultry job losses, at Business Report

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