But because the contract extends to only 20 years, it is a valid concern that SA will receive, at the very most, only 5 years worth of its rightful royalties. The NBI may well benefit from the seemingly paltry and unreliable royalties, but Huntley has given little reason to believe that these royalties will make any ripple among the floriculture industry or SA s cultural heritage in general. The media representations of the deal have been just as perplexing as the deal itself. Although the Ball-NBI agreement was reached in 1999, the media s criticisms, most notably from the Cape Times , began unfolding two years later. The long-term challenge.
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