NEWS
Ad website takes us to a new level
A
stute readers looking
for bargains in this
edition will notice that
there are no longer any
classified advertisements.
That's because, with effect
from September, all classified
advertisements submitted,
whether by post, fax, email or
SMS, have been uploaded to
our new website, the SA
Small Farmers' Online
Exchange, sasfox.co.za.
This has two immediate
benefits for advertisers. Firstly,
ads submitted are uploaded
and displayed as soon as they
are received, meaning the
seller can get rid of the
advertised goods faster,
without waiting for the
magazine to be published
and read. And, secondly, the
sasfox site draws a national,
rather than province-wide,
viewership, meaning many
more people will see the
advertisement.
Readers who have limited
access to electronic media
may continue to submit
classified advertisements by
themselves. This process is
quick, confidential, and free
of charge.
The sasfox site has been
designed by ourselves ~
smallholders with less-than-
perfect internet access ~ to
be everything a rural dweller
needs in a website. The site is
deliberately spartan and free
of bells 'n whistles, so that it is
fast to load, easy to use, and
as frugal with data usage as it
can be.
We expect sasfox to grow
into a major information
hand or post, and these will
exchange for the rural
be uploaded to the relevant
community countrywide.
category on the sasfox site by Apart from the usual classified
our staff.
advertisements section for
Readers who have access to a new and used equipment etc,
computer, however, need no the classified section incorpo-
rates a category where
longer submit their ads to us
growers of fruit and vegeta-
for uploading, but can do so
bles can exchange, buy and
themselves, simply by
registering as users on the site, sell their produce … a sort of
and typing in their ads
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BIRD FLU
F rom page 5
“The continued cooperation
of the public and the poultry
industry in the timeous
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reporting of sick and dying
birds to State Veterinary
Services is vital for the
effectiveness of disease
control measures instituted.
DAFF therefore thanks the
public and the poultry
industry for their support in
this regard.”
Fearing a shortage of poultry
for consumption as a result
of the culling and quarantine
measures, the poultry
industry is seeking to import
fertile eggs to re-grow the
national flock and measures
to make this possible, in
safety, are being considered
by the department.