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2022: A challenging but rewarding year

By: Dr Ronald Heath, FSA Director Research and Protection 2022 has seen our Sector beset by economic, social and environmental challenges, some expected others completely ...
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2022: A productive year for Environmental Stewardship

By Dr John Scotcher, FSA Environmental Consultant Forestry South Africa’s Environmental Management Committee (EMC) has had a very busy and productive 2022, as we start ...
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Entrepreneurship: an education reform that could provide the solution to South Africa’s triple ills of poverty, unemployment and inequality

Entrepreneurship: an education reform that could provide the solution to South Africa’s triple ills of poverty, unemployment and inequality

It will be another sad day in South Africa when all the graduates in a particular institution of higher learning fail to obtain a job ...
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Forestry and Forest Products Industry Outlook for 2020

Forestry and Forest Products Industry Outlook for 2020

The South African economy has significantly underperformed its peers for at least a decade. Low GDP growth rates, increasing unemployment, low levels of investment, burgeoning ...
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Forestry South Africa launches new corporate website

Forestry South Africa (FSA) has launched a new corporate website. FSA, the country's largest forestry organisation representing timber growers, has enhanced its web presence...
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Forestry South Africa celebrates women in forestry with its profile series

Forestry South Africa celebrates women in forestry with its profile series

“Women like myself operate machines and there is scope to learn and improve. I started out as a general worker, so forestry definitely provides opportunities ...
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Confirmation on SETA Landscape for the period 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2030

Please find below part 1 of Government Gazette No. 42589, dated 22 July 2019, in which details pertaining to the scope of coverage of SETAs ...
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FSA Annual Report 2018

FSA Annual Report 2018 The excitement of the political changes we witnessed at the end of 2017 and the beginning of 2018 were dampened a ...
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Legal Challenge with regards to Existing Lawful Water Use

Message from Forestry South Africa Dear EXCO members As per our report in last week’s meeting on the legal opinion we obtained in respect of ...
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DPME and DGs approve the Forestry PPGI Business Plan

The PPGI held a meeting with the Economic Cluster of Directors-General in the Union Buildings last week. This was the last meeting of the Directors-General ...
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Forestry South Africa Submission on National Forest Amendment Bill

Gazetted document and Forestry South Africa’s comments on the National Forests Amendment Bill. Of major concern is that, despite the concerns we raised in our ...
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Mpumalanga Forestry Sector Development Plan Consultation

Please find hereunder an email from our Business Development Director, Norman Dlamini regarding the abovementioned invite and the accompanying documents. Members in Mpumalanga are urged ...
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Change in date of FSA AGM

Following the announcement of the date of the General Election as 8 May 2019 and the subsequent publication thereof in Government Gazette No 42250 dated 26 ...
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FSA submission on the Land Expropriation Bill

FORESTRY SOUTH AFRICA (FSA), as the Industry association representing over 90% of the commercial timber growers of South Africa, both by scale and race, hereby ...
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Implementation of the National Minimum Wage – 1 January 2019

Please note that the implementation of the National Minimum Wage will become effective from 1 January 2019.  In terms of forestry  (and agricultural) workers, the applicable wage ...
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Dates of annual FSA regional meetings 2019

Please find hereunder the dates of the 9 Regional FSA meetings that we will be holding during the course of February 2019. These meetings provide ...
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Southern Cape forest fires pose serious risk to sustainability of regional timber industry

Southern Cape forest fires pose serious risk to sustainability of regional timber industry

A total of 7 643 hectares of predominantly pine plantations belonging to private timber growers in the Southern Cape region have either been totally or ...
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Annual loss of R285-M in sawn timber

Annual loss of R285-M in sawn timber

Michael Peter, executive director of Forestry South Africa, said the extent of damage to plantations caused by the current fires must still be assessed. Peter ...
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A career made out of wood

A career made out of wood

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The impact of new regulations on SA's forestry contractors

The impact of new regulations on SA’s forestry contractors

The impact of new regulations on SA’s forestry contractors presented at The SAFCA AGM 11 October 2018. Download presentation Source: Forestry South Africa 
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The impact of new regulations on SA's forestry contractors

The impact of new land ownership on fire risk in the SA Forestry sector

The impact of new land ownership on fire risk in the SA Forestry sector presented at the Fire Symposium 3-5 October 2018. Download presentation Source: Forestry ...
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7th Training Indaba – October 2018

Presentations made at this years 7th Training Indaba held in Pietermaritzburg on 5th October 2018 Sensing Sappi  Ergonomics_One of the Drivers of Modernisation FSA virtual ...
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FSA Submission to SARS on Diesel Refund Proposals

FSA, along with its members were invited to attend a “Forestry Specific” Workshop at the SARS offices in Pretoria on 22 August 2018 to discuss ...
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Seeing the "Good in Wood!"

Seeing the “Good in Wood!”

www.forestryexplained.co. ...
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