🎉 We’ve reached 2 500 signatures. Thank you. 🙏 

This is real progress and every single signature matters. To become truly powerful, we need to double this number.

A special thank you to the 83 people who have actively promoted this petition, contributing a total of R9,008 to help amplify this cause. Your support has made a real difference and it has not gone unnoticed.

There has been some movement on Foot and Mouth Disease. Current blood samples are being sent by Minister Steenhuisen to the Pirbright Institute in the UK to check vaccine matching. This is the first time this has happened in many years. While this step is welcome, it is too little and too late on its own.

What South Africa urgently needs is legislative change so that outbreaks can be prevented and controlled before they spiral into national disasters. Waiting for crisis response is not a strategy.

Why Foot and Mouth Disease affects every South African:

• It disrupts meat and dairy supply, driving food prices up for everyone
• It threatens food security and jobs across the value chain
• It shuts down export markets and damages the economy
• It impacts tourism, transport and rural communities, not only farmers

This is not a farming issue. It is a national issue.

How you can help right now:

If every person who has signed this petition shares it with just one other person, we can double our numbers very quickly.

Please share the petition widely. WhatsApp, Facebook, email, community groups. Every share counts.

👉 Sign and share the petition here: https://www.change.org/end-fmd-sa

Thank you for standing up, for caring, and for helping protect South Africa before it is too late.