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Farmers concerned with proposed water licensing regulations


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Farmers have voiced their concern that the proposed water licensing regulations will have a devastating effect on South Africa's commercial agricultural sector if adopted in their current form. This as civil rights organization AfriForum and its legal team are preparing comments against the intended changes to water legislation. This is after the Department of Water and Sanitation published revised draft regulations stating that certain enterprises applying for water use licenses will in the future have to allocate shares of up to 75% to black South Africans for licenses to be granted. For more on this, Elvis Presslin spoke to AfriForum's advisor for Environmental Affairs, Marais de Vaal

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