Stock theft under the spotlight
Written by Louis Wessels, Chairman of the National Stock Theft Prevention Forum Stock theft is as old as man himself and is already mentioned in
2024-05-03
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South Africa’s cumulative trade deficit was R71.4-billion [USD 6.2-billion] in 2013. A year later, according to the South African Revenue Service (Sars), it was R95.3-billion [USD 8.3-billion].
We’re going in the wrong direction.
So a slight feeling of relief then at the news that in the month of December 2014 the country recorded a trade surplus of R6.9-billion [exports of R87.5-billion and imports of R80.5-billion].
Agriculture does not only feed us; does not only release the rest of the country’s citizen’s to pursue other jobs (since they can now buy food at the nearest shop); does not only provide fibre for processing and provide for jobs upstream and downstream; does not only provide stability in rural areas; it is also an important earner of foreign exchange.
Included in South Africa’s major agricultural exports is citrus fruit, deciduous fruit, wine, subtropical fruit, wool, corn, sunflower seed and oil and raisins.
A toast to agriculture!
Click on the hyperlinked words above to find the overviews of those sectors in The Agri Handbook.
