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23 February 2021
GroundUp
Court was “left to speculate” about the municipality’s emergency housing plan, argues advocate
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19 February 2021
Engineering news
After surveying 577 participants among member companies, industry association Agri SA has found that a potential 4 384 jobs could potentially be lost in 2021/22 as a result of the increase in the national minimum wage for farmworkers. Agri SA reports that 549 of the 577 participants will exceed their budgeted wage expenses in the 2021 financial year, owing to the increase in the National Minimum Wage (NMW), while 456 of the participants foresee retrenchments of some of their farmworkers as a direct result thereof.
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07 February 2021
IOL
Some allege that the farmer had given the Nguni family permission to build, however he has denied the claim.
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13 January 2021
Farmer’s Weekly
Farmworker wages could increase as much as 16,1% in 2021. This followed the National Minimum Wage Commission recommending in November 2020 that the minimum wage for farmworkers be aligned with the national minimum wage (NMW) in 2021, based on the argument that the agriculture sector was not as severely affected as other sectors by the COVID-19-related lockdown.
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12 January 2021
New Frame
Many labourers in the Sundays River Valley have never seen a cent after suffering debilitating pain and even disability from accidents while at work. A non-profit trust wants to change this.
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08 January 2020
EWN
This is after three farm workers died, and more than 20 people were injured in an accident near Worcester on Monday.
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03 December 2020
IOL
SANDF and Agri SA have signed an agreement to deploy rural security (home guards) to help curb farm murders and improve rural safety.
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29 November 2020
Mail & Guardian
In part two of a series on the lives of farm dwellers, Tshepiso Mabula ka Ndongeni finds a community haunted by the scourge of eviction
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16 November 2020
IOL
The Western Cape Department of Agriculture will provide crucial relief to employees in the local wine tourism sector.
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06 November 2020
GroundUp
There is a a decades-long battle over Boschendal housing
Farm workers read more@LarcUCT reseracher Nokwanda Sihlali is part of @UbumboLegends Writers & Thought Leaders platform which aims to showcase talented individuals’ writing and to critically engage in the content they produce. It is essentially a woman-dominated and women-led space. https://twitter.com/ThisLand_Doc/status/1364705905695154176
"Through the programme of Security of Tenure, the precarity of recognised tenure is ubiquitous in informal and undeveloped spaces occupied mainly by marginalised black people, who are underprivileged and predominantly working class"
https://ubumbo.org.za/2021/02/22/dealing-with-landlessness-in-sa-vital-for-black-marginalised/
IFAD Advantage Series: The small livestock advantage: A sustainable entry point for addressing... - https://goo.gl/scholar/9f3PMW #ScholarAlerts
Nazeer Sonday: In Munich, plans to protect the city’s groundwater from fertiliser and pesticide contamination led to financial support and state subsidisation for a major shift to purely organic agriculture. Why not Cape Town? https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-02-22-how-organic-farmer-nazeer-sonday-became-an-accidental-warrior-for-land-reform-and-ecological-justice/
Ivan Cloete eviction: Investigation must be independent – Annette Steyn @politicsweb https://www.politicsweb.co.za/politics/da-calls-for-independent-probe-into-farm-eviction-
Italian Ambassador and two officials killed in attack on UN World Food Programme convoy in DR Congo https://shar.es/aoyuk2
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