Game industry investments may displace agricultural production

There are just over 2000 taxpayers who earn more than R5-million a year - about one in 25000 South Africans.

How much of SA's dwindling wealth from share-option benefits is being invested in the game industry, thereby displacing agricultural production? And how many farmworkers are now living in townships, rezoned by game farming operations, many resembling private tax-deductible zoos? Are the local authorities correctly rating game-farming activities or are they slipping through under the rating concessions granted to agriculture? People in rural South Africa cannot eat scenery, BDLive says.

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