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WHEN YOU FAIL TO PLAN, YOU PLAN TO FAIL: SA’s POULTRY SECTOR MASTER PLANSTORY
22 September 2025 MEDIA STATEMENT WHEN YOU FAIL TO PLAN, YOU PLAN TO FAIL: SA’s POULTRY SECTOR MASTER PLAN South Africa’s Poultry Sector Master Plan (the PSMP, signed in November 2019), promised to stabilise an industry hammered by dumped imports. It undertook to grow...
Newzroom Africa – Call for SA government to change its political posture
SOUTH AFRICAN POULTRY INDUSTRY CALLS FOR CLARITY AND URGENT REVOCATION OF U.S. IMPORT QUOTA
30 July 2025 MEDIA STATEMENT SOUTH AFRICAN POULTRY INDUSTRY CALLS FOR CLARITY AND URGENT REVOCATION OF U.S. IMPORT QUOTA The South African poultry industry notes with concern the media release issued by Minister Tau on 29 July 2025, titled “Minister Tau reaffirms...
Farmer’s Weekly SA Interview: How SA’s poultry industry is navigating new outbreaks and the vaccination roll-out
Recent outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in North West and Mpumalanga have once again placed South Africa’s poultry industry on high alert. In response, a major development has been the issuing of a permit to Astral Foods to begin vaccinating its...
THE GOVERNMENT MUST DEFEND SOUTH AFRICA’S POULTRY INDUSTRY AND PROTECTITS FOOD SECURITY
25 June 2025 MEDIA STATEMENT THE GOVERNMENT MUST DEFEND SOUTH AFRICA’S POULTRY INDUSTRY AND PROTECT ITS FOOD SECURITY by Izaak Breitenbach, CEO of SAPA’s Broiler Organisation The South African poultry industry has asked the government to withdraw the “concession”...
IT IS SAFE TO CONSUME EGGS
12 June 2025 MEDIA STATEMENT Released by the South African Poultry Association (SAPA) Egg Organisation. IT IS SAFE TO CONSUME EGGS We take note of the circulating social media posts on Salmonella cases in California in the United States of America. We confirm that...
GOVERNMENT CONFIRMS START OF HPAI VACCINATION STRATEGY AT AVI AFRICA 2025
10 June 2025 MEDIA STATEMENT GOVERNMENT CONFIRMS START OF HPAI VACCINATION STRATEGY AT AVI AFRICA 2025 In a significant development for South Africa’s agricultural sector, the Deputy Director-General for Agricultural Production, Biosecurity, and Natural Resources...
GAUTENG MEC RAMOKGOPA: “POULTRY SECTOR KEY TO FOOD SECURITY, JOBS, ANDINCLUSIVE GROWTH”
9 June 2025 MEDIA STATEMENT GAUTENG MEC RAMOKGOPA: “POULTRY SECTOR KEY TO FOOD SECURITY, JOBS, ANDINCLUSIVE GROWTH” At AVI Africa 2025, Gauteng MEC for Agriculture and Rural Development, Ms Vuyiswa Ramokgopa, reaffirmed the strategic importance of South Africa’s...
BRAZIL IMPORT BAN SHOULD NOT LEAD TO SHORTAGES OF CHICKEN MEAT IN SOUTH AFRICA
20 May 2025 MEDIA STATEMENT BRAZIL IMPORT BAN SHOULD NOT LEAD TO SHORTAGES OF CHICKEN MEAT IN SOUTH AFRICA South African poultry producers have the capacity to make up for the loss of Brazilian chicken meat imports due to an outbreak of avian influenza (bird flu) in...
SOUTH AFRICA’S IMMINENT BIRD FLU CRISIS
24 February 2025 SOUTH AFRICA’S IMMINENT BIRD FLU CRISIS South Africa is facing a grave risk from the potential spread of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI or “Bird Flu”). The virus typically migrates with wild birds from Europe to South Africa in winter,...