Tag: Sisi Ntombela

Free State farmers are growing increasingly fed up of the lack of road maintenance in their province. Photo: Supplied/Food For Mzansi

Fed up farmers: ‘We’re food producers, not road builders’

by Duncan Masiwa

4th Mar 2022

The Free State roads budget is but a drop in the bucket of what's needed to fix the dilapidated network. And it seems that tender irregularities are to blame for ...

All nine premiers have prioritised agriculture to pave the way forward for their respective provinces post the Covid-19 pandemic. Photos: Supplied/Design: Food For Mzansi

Premiers vow to use agriculture to revive economy

by Sinesipho Tom

11th Mar 2021

All nine premiers have vowed to place agriculture at the forefront of their economic recovery plans beyond the Covid-19 pandemic. In their respective State of the Province addresses, the premiers ...

Free State MEC for agriculture and rural development William Bulwane during a site-visit to some of the Bultfontein farms damaged by heavy rains. He was accompanied by Tankiso Matsholo, mayor of the Tswelopele Local Municipality, and councillor Motsabinyana Raseu. Photo: Supplied

Dilapidated roads: Free State pleads for help

by Dona Van Eeden

16th Jan 2021

If the Free State government doesn’t urgently maintain and repair the province’s road network, economic activity might soon come to a grinding halt. Severe floods in the last two weeks ...

From left to right: Free State Premier Sisi Ntombela, AFASA president Dr Vuyo Mahlati and South African businessman, Patrice Motsepe.

Patrice Motsepe joins top speaker line-up at AFASA conference

by Staff Reporter

8th Oct 2019

With the AFASA Agribusiness Transformation Conference now just three days away, organisers have announced that one of the nation’s leading businessmen, billionaire Patrice Motsepe, will deliver the keynote address to ...

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