Mashatile urges farmers to stay in South Africa and help address challenges [SOUND]

# Deputy president Paul Mashatile says government is committed to working with farmers to address their challenges. He made an appearance at the NAMPO Harvest Day in the Free State on Thursday, one of the largest agricultural expos. This comes after president Cyril Ramaphosa visited the expo earlier this week, where he said the Afrikaners who left the country for the US were taking the cowardly way out. Mashatile says the farmers he met at NAMPO have no intentions of leaving the country: