30 January 2024

MEDIA STATEMENT : RECENT RAINS TO EASE DROUGHT BURDEN ON
OUR FARMERS

The Northern Cape Department of Agriculture, Environmental Affairs, Rural Development and Land Reform welcomes the good rains that have poured recently. The rains came in handy as it will ease the burden on our farmers who were feeling the scotching heat of drought and veldfires due to lack of rain.

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23 January 2024

MEDIA STATEMENT : SIX NEWLY QUALIFIED VETERINARIANS JOINS DEPT AS PART OF “CCS” PROGRAMME

Six newly qualified Veterinarians have joined the Northern Cape Department of Agriculture, Environmental Affairs, Rural Development and Land Reform’s Veterinary Services.

The initiative is part of Government’s Compulsory Community Service (CCS) programme. The CCS programme offers the newly qualified veterinarians the opportunity, to render their much needed services to rural areas and to gain valuable experience and knowledge - under the supervision of the qualified veterinary doctors.

The programme runs for a year and is part of taking veterinary services to the whole province – especially the far flung rural areas. The programme was introduced by government as part of bridging the animal health services gap between the urban and rural communities in the country.

The newly qualified veterinarians will be based in various districts of the province, The Department wishes them well in their endeavors. END

Mr Bongani Silingile – Media Liaison Officer
Office of the MEC
Department of Agriculture, Environmental Affairs,
Rural Development and Land Reform
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MEDIA STATEMENT : DEPT WELCOMES THE SUCCESFUL CONVICTION AND SENTENCING OF FOUR ZIMBABWEAN NATIONALS IN KURUMAN

The Northern Cape Department of Agriculture, Environmental Affairs, Rural Development and Land Reform welcomes the successful convictions and 10 years sentencing of four male Zimbabwean Nationals by the Kuruman Magistrate Court in the John Taolo Gaetsewe District Municipality.

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DEPARTMENT SADDENED BY THE DEATHS OF THREE FARM WORKERS AFTER BEING STRUCK BY LIGHTNING

The Northern Cape Department of Agriculture, Environmental Affairs, Rural Development and Land Reform, is saddened by the death of three farm workers while five others sustained injuries after they were struck by lightning in three separate incidents in Barkley West, outside Kimberley.

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