Agribee News Today

Private company, Berlin Beef, has irrevocably lost out on a R67.5m government deal for a beef commercialisation project aimed at assisting black smallholder farmers after the Constitutional Court refused to hear its appeal against a judgment invalidating the agreement. Berlin Beef describes itself as the biggest black-owned feedlot operator in SA.

The Supreme Court of Appeal has declared invalid an agreement worth more than R67.5m between the Eastern Cape Rural Development Agency and service provider Agribee Beef Fund for a “beef commercialisation” project supposedly aimed at assisting 200 black smallholder farmers.