Cape Eastern Livestock

16/06/2026

We look forward to meeting you at the Tri-Nations Livestock Expo 2026 in Tanzania. 🇹🇿 🤝 🇿🇦

16/05/2026

Charles you are doing great job!

🎉 Exciting news! Join us on May 25, 2026, for the launch of our newest book at Nelson Mandela Bay Business Chamber! 📚✨ Get ready for an unforgettable morning of inspiration, fun, and surprises. Mark your calendars and be part of this special celebration! 🎈🎉 Click the link below to SAVE YOUR SEAT!
🔗 https://tblacademy.online/25-may-2026-book-launch/

12/05/2026

🌟 𝗧𝗿𝗶 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗼 𝗟𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗰𝗸 𝗪𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 🌟

We are proud to announce the launch of a brand new award celebrating women making an extraordinary impact in the livestock industry across Kenya, Namibia, and Tanzania.

In 2026 — the United Nations Year for Women in Agriculture — it is time their stories were told. 🙌

📅 Entries Open: 15 April 2026
📅 Entries Close: 15 May 2026

🏆 Winners will be announced at the Tri Nations Livestock Expo and Sale
📍 Mbogo Ranches, Tanzania | 19–21 June 2026

If you are a woman driving the livestock industry forward in Kenya, Namibia, or Tanzania — this award was made for you.

Proudly supported by NMB Bank, Real Time Agr, Woragus Boran Stud, and the Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries Tanzania.

🐄 _Their herds. Their impact. Our honor._

👉 Share this with every woman in livestock who deserves to be celebrated!🌟

12/05/2026

Eastern Cape Crossbreed Dairy Heifers.

09/05/2026

Supporting Growth in Agriculture

30/04/2026

Livestock Marketing at its Best.

farming

National RPO / Nasionale RPO Cape Eastern Livestock fans

30/04/2026

Doing it Right!
We follow the rules and protect our clients and our animals, Our industry is our responsibility, Our clients are the foundation of our business. It Starts with YOU!

19/04/2026

Having read the draft Section 10 scheme, the Agri EC / EC RPO comments, and other submissions, one thing is clear: everyone agrees urgency matters. Agri EC is absolutely right to push for urgent gazetting of the scheme, rapid appointment of the Committee and Chairperson, and pre-emptive vaccination outside outbreak areas as soon as possible. That urgency is real and necessary.

But the question I believe we now need to ask is bigger than urgency:

Will the proposed framework, even if gazetted quickly, actually work across the full farming reality of the Eastern Cape and South Africa?

The draft still contains conditions such as boundary fencing with registered coordinates, owner-funded authorised vet or AHT costs, and a scheme that is voluntary in name but may later become mandatory. Cape Eastern Livestock’s submission argues that these provisions may be achievable for stronger formal commercial systems, but not necessarily for communal, smallholder, mixed and less-resourced farming communities.

That is where I believe the real debate lies.

Agri EC’s comments make an important contribution on speed and structure, but they also leave many critical issues to the future Committee and SOP process, while supporting deletion of the public-funding clause and retaining owner-paid authorised vet / AHT costs.

So the question is not only:
How quickly can we gazette the framework?

The deeper question is:
Can the framework, once gazetted, be accessed, afforded and implemented fairly across all farming communities — not only the stronger commercial farmer?

I support urgency.
But I also believe urgency without practical inclusion will create another layer of compliance for some, and another barrier for others.

This is a debate worth having — respectfully, practically, and with the full demographic of the livestock sector in mind.
Think high Risk areas?
Think access to vaccine?
Think financial constraints?
Think lack of bio security?
We live in a diverse landscape where people think and act differently!

See questions in comments.

Let’s unpack this as it unfolds before us! And let’s see whether the leaders in industry have their feet on the ground, or are they just driving a desk ?

09/03/2026

Looking forward to attending the Bathurst Show as “just a visitor” this year. The build-up is getting more exciting by the day. Wishing the new committee and organisers all the very best — it certainly looks like the show is going to be a great success under your stewardship.

05/03/2026

Unfortunately, John Steenhuisen reminds me of a turtle on a fence pole 🐢.

You know it didn’t get there by itself.
It has no idea how it got there.
And now it’s paddling in mid-air with absolutely no clue what to do next.

Meanwhile Foot-and-Mouth Disease is a very real and growing threat, and farmers are being forced to protect their own herds because government has clearly lost the ability to manage the situation effectively.

South African farmers have always been resilient. We carry the responsibility of feeding the country, protecting jobs, and sustaining rural economies — often despite government, not because of it.

If the state cannot control the rollout of vaccines or contain the spread of FMD, then farmers must be allowed to protect their own livestock before the damage to the national herd becomes irreversible.

The reality is simple:
Livestock cannot wait for bureaucracy while disease spreads.