Farming

70 small-scale Musina farmers face eviction

The municipality wants the land for a new township

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News | 10 November 2023

Women farm workers demand meeting with Minister of Agriculture

Women on Farms Project marched to Parliament on Wednesday

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News | 9 November 2023

Rural women shed light on food insecurity

“Small household gardens are not enough for women to be able to escape food insecurity” says activist

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News | 30 October 2023

Small-scale farmers suffer devastating losses after Western Cape floods

At a Genadendal farm, nearly 500 chickens drowned, and over 50 pigs are missing

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News | 4 October 2023

Eastern Cape family waits for promised right to farm land where their ancestors worked

Department of Rural Development and Land Reform silent on why it’s taken years to issue a lease promised in 2019

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News | 3 October 2023

“I want to take my last breath in this house” says Cape farm dweller facing eviction

The families are refusing the leave, saying life on the farm is all they’ve ever known

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News | 2 October 2023

Farm workers march against pesticides

They call on European company to stop exporting EU-banned pesticides to South Africa

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News | 9 September 2023

Small farmers in the Cederberg still reeling from flood damage

Provincial department wants the area to be declared a disaster zone

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News | 21 July 2023

Farm worker unfairly dismissed after Swedish magazine interview

The Cape Town Labour Court has sent Claudine van Wyk’s case back to the CCMA

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Law | 28 June 2023

Workers demand harsher penalties for farms violating labour laws

New study finds poor working conditions even on some Fairtrade-certified farms

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News | 23 March 2023

Perlemoen farm gives hope to West Coast community

Doring Bay Abalone, 37% owned by the community, produces about 60 tonnes of abalone per year, mostly to legally export to China.

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News | 24 January 2023

Stopping people from letting their cattle graze amounts to eviction, says judge

Land Claims Court says the Constitution requires that ESTA be given a “generous interpretation”

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Law | 21 November 2022

African women demand voice at climate change summits

“We need concrete solutions for climate change now”

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Brief | 18 November 2022

Development will destroy Philippi’s farming, say activists

MEC Bredell to consider new Environmental Impact Assessment and public comments this week for Philippi Horticultural Area

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News | 7 November 2022

Eastern Cape farm families plead for access to electricity and water

But farmers explain it is too costly for them to pay to install the infrastructure

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News | 31 October 2022

Farm workers march to Parliament to demand major reform

List of demands handed to Minister of Agriculture

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News | 31 October 2022