The news that newly proposed firearms legislation would no longer recognise self-defence as a valid reason to own a firearm, has been met with anger, despair, and disbelief. And not only by those who own a gun.

However one looks at it, the country has lost its way: the South African police are not in a position to handle crime effectively, declared the ANC’s own chair of the parliamentary portfolio committee on police Ms. Tina Joemat-Pettersson in November 2020.

Destruction, thy name is African National Congress!  Disintegration, degradation, decay and denial are the hallmarks of this organisation which the world hailed as the saviour of South Africa.

South Africa continues to grapple with land reform challenges.

SA’s agricultural sector is finalising the sector master plan.

South Africa is a country of polarities in close juxtaposition, and nothing reflects this situation more than the plight of commercial farming in South Africa.