ASUF Plenary meets to elect new leaders

Agri-sector Unity Forum (ASUF) held an extraordinary plenary on 8 July 2014. Following the milestone  1^st ASUF policy conference earlier in the year and the subsequent untimely passing of the chairperson of ASUF, Ms Ntombi Msimang, a special ASUF plenary was called to determine the way forward and elect new leadership. Prof Mohammad Karaan facilitated the meeting and indicated the challenges facing ASUF. The plenary elected Mr Japie Grobler as chairperson of ASUF for the next term and Mr Pitso Sekhoto as the deputy chairperson. “Today’s meeting was important as ASUF had essentially successfully completed its first stage of development and it was necessary to frankly debate critical issues facing the sector in order to eventually move from functional unity to greater structural unity,” said Mr Grobler.