Curriculum · Module 08
The Law of the Land and the Animal
The single most commonly broken law by SA smallholders is in the first lesson of this module. The rest covers the marking and movement documents that keep you out of a stock theft charge, the measures that bind you whether you know them or not, the land duties that already require several practices this course teaches, and the uncomfortable finding at the centre of SA regenerative marketing.
- 33 The Abattoir Rule Most Smallholders Break Settles what you may slaughter, eat, give away and sell — and why the cultural exemption opens no sales route at all. Apply the section 7 decision table to any animal on your farmState which species are in Schedule 1 and which are not, and why that mattersIdentify the lawful throughput route for the scale you actually operate at 14 min
- 34 Marking, Identification and the Four-Document Movement Drill Settles how animals must be marked and which four documents must be in the vehicle when stock moves. Mark each species to the legal specification and within the legal deadlineAssemble the four documents required for a lawful stock movementName the offences that attach to a missing mark or a missing document 12 min
- 35 Compulsory Measures and the Welfare Checklist Settles the Table 2 measures binding every SA farmer, and the cruelty statute read as a practical farm audit. List the compulsory measures that apply to your own species mixAudit your farm against the Animals Protection Act section 2 listState what happens when the SPCA arrives, and on what authority 13 min
- 36 Your Legal Duties to the Land: CARA, NEMBA and Water Settles that several practices this course teaches as good management are already statutory, and when your stock water is lawful. Name the CARA measures that make rest periods, multi-species grazing and reduced numbers a legal duty, not merely good practiceApply the wider riparian measurement where CARA and NEMBA give two different ones on the same watercourseState the condition on which your stock-watering exemption under the National Water Act depends 14 min
- 37 What You May Lawfully Call Your Product Settles the uncomfortable finding at the centre of SA regenerative marketing: most of the words you want have no legal definition here. State which product claims have a legal definition in South Africa and which do notChoose a certification route that a named buyer will actually pay forExplain why carcass classification, not production method, sets your price on the commodity rail 13 min