In 2012 Karoo farms attracted substantial interest from the full spectrum of South African farm buyers, reports Wayne Rubidge, manager for Pam Golding Properties in the Karoo.

Auction Alliance will be hosting a Mini Multiple Agricultural Auction at the Mapatamacha Game Centre in the Vaalwater region in Limpopo, in which 5 prime game farms in the Vaalwater will be brought under the hammer.

Interest in commercial livestock and irrigation farms in the central Cape provinces – predominantly the Karoo and Kalahari regions – is now coming to the fore, says Wayne Rubidge, manager for Pam Golding Properties in these regions.

Government is to appeal a court judgment compelling it to evict and provide housing for 40,000 illegal squatters occupying part of a commercial farm in Benoni.