Image: courtesy of Freedom Front Plus Just two weeks after unveiling South Africa’s first comprehensive roadmap to defeat Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) in three decades, Minister of Agriculture John Steenhuisen is facing a legal hurdle that he warns could compromise the nation’s biosecurity and export future. The Department of Agriculture has come under fire from lobby groups Saai, Sakeliga, and Free State Agriculture. The groups have issued a legal demand insisting that lives