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TLU SA says replacing the Agriculture minister will not resolve the foot-and-mouth disease crisis [SOUND]

# Agricultural organisation TLU SA says replacing minister of Agriculture, John Steenhuisen, will not resolve the foot-and-mouth crisis. DA leader Geordin Hill-Lewis has asked president Cyril Ramaphosa to replace Steenhuisen with the current minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, Willie Aucamp. TLU SA’s president, Bennie van Zyl, says what is needed is for government to change its centralised vaccination and procurement policies, and allow the private sector to take over the crisis:

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