Skeletons tumble as ISPAAD goes under audit
Friday, July 05, 2019
By most estimates government spends upwards of P600 million each year on ISPAAD, the main agricultural inputs programme introduced in 2008 to support communal farmers.
Each season, the programme provides farmers with various inputs such as seeds, tillage services, fertilisers, herbicides and others in the interests of increasing grain production and promoting food security at household and national levels.
It highlights the need to protect rights such as access to clean water, education, healthcare and freedom of expression.President Duma Boko, rightly honours past interventions from securing a dignified burial for Gaoberekwe Pitseng in the CKGR to promoting linguistic inclusion. Yet, they also expose a critical truth, that a nation cannot sustainably protect its people through ad hoc acts of compassion alone.It is time for both government and the...