Agriculture Department lifts FMD restrictions in KwaZulu-Natal [SOUND]

# Minister of Agriculture, John Steenhuisen, lifted foot-and-mouth disease restrictions within the KwaZulu-Natal disease management area, ending movement controls introduced in 2021. He says the decision follows changing outbreak patterns, with infections now spread across the province. Steenhuisen says while restrictions are removed, authorities stress that broader biosecurity measures will remain in place as South Africa shifts toward a single national framework for managing livestock disease control: