Hon House Chair, we will continue to fast track our land reform programme but I have said here that we are currently looking at the farmer support programme; post settlement programme which is co- ordinated. Previously, yes, those who have been given
land have failed. They have failed because of the lack of consistent support.
Now we are coming with an integrated support model that will be located at the district level. We are trying to follow this same model of a district and we think it is closer to the farmer. That is where all our support is going to be located. I have mentioned the type of support that we are going to give to each an individual farmer. Recently I have visited farmers in the Northern Cape and realised the problems that are experienced by these farmers. Currently we are supporting those farmers. There is drought which caused the cattle to die and we immediately came up with interventions on the spot to supply fodder and to ensure that land is made available to the provincial government so that they can continue to plant fodder and increase their fodder bank to support these farmers.
We are going to continue but this is not a well co- ordinated intervention but we are going to locate the intervention at a district that will be permanent. Farmers will be supported on a permanent basis to
produce. So, we are coming up with a support model that will permanent and known by farmers. All farmers that are getting support from that centre will be registered.