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Farmer's Weekly reports that the Food and Allied Workers Union (Fawu) recently called on government to focus on the crisis facing SA’s poultry industry, rather than on transformation.
Briefing Parliament’s agriculture portfolio committee on the challenges facing the local poultry industry, the union’s general secretary, Katishi Masemola, said: “Transformation should not be secondary, but we have a crisis on our hands. With every passing [day], Rainbow Chicken is losing R1 million [per day], and people are losing their jobs.” He told the committee that unfair trade, namely the EU’s ‘dumping’ of large volumes of chicken in the country, was responsible for the challenges currently facing the industry. According to Masemola, thousands of people have already lost their jobs, and more will follow. He went on to say: “If we are going to be side-tracked by the talk of transformation, there might not be a chicken industry to talk about by the time it [transformation] is finished.”
- Read this report by Jeandré du Preez in full at Farmer's Weekly
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