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21 January 2023
News 24
The Gift of the Givers Foundation is set to assist the community of Kakamas in the Northern Cape with additional water tanks after seven deaths were recorded in two days due to heat strokes.
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19 December 2022
Food for Mzansi
Zwelivelile Mandela, the chairperson of South Africa’s portfolio committee on agriculture, land reform and rural development, says that for South Africa to reach its agricultural potential, the str…
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19 November 2022
News 24
Knoflokskraal, near Grabouw, has been occupied for more than a year, with around 400 structures illegally erected on the land.
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21 November 2022
GroundUp
Land Claims Court says the Constitution requires that ESTA be given a “generous interpretation”
Farm workers read moreSeasonal farmworkers suffer from precarious living conditions as highlighted in a pre-trial hearing of a High Court case that, if successful, could see them evicted from the public land they live on.
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07 November 2022
EWN
Farmworkers are trying hard to retain the roofs over their heads as they face more evictions.
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31 October 2022
GroundUp
List of demands handed to Minister of Agriculture
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25 October 2022
Daily Maverick
Brodie’s new book explores news reports, data, legal cases and expert research on violence on farms, including violence experienced by farm labourers and in black communities surrounding mostly white-owned farmlands, which is often overlooked and under-reported.
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31 October 2022
GroundUp
But farmers explain it is too costly for them to pay to install the infrastructure
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19 October 2022
Daily Maverick
The story of Mrs Clara Phillips would be familiar to anyone with knowledge of the quasi-feudal relationships between apartheid-era farm owners and the generations of farm workers who lived and worked on these farms.
Farm workers read moreForcibly removed 60 years ago: Simon’s Town land claimants return https://www.groundup.org.za/article/forcibly-removed-60-years-ago-simons-town-land-claimants-return/
Botswana's Bushmen community has been the victim of forceful evictions and discriminatory harassment. https://www.fairplanet.org/story/the-forced-eviction-of-botswanas-indigenous-people/
Renewable energy worldwide is now cheaper per MWh than fossil fuels, especially in Africa given their favorable geographic situation. Much like the tobacco industry, when polluting and dangerous fossil fuels are pushed out of Europe & the US, they push their products on Africa.
Activist @BarigyeBob1 is yet to be released two days after being arrested for organising a debate on the environmental, human rights and economic impact of the controversial #EACOP. We demand his immediate release! See press statement ~> https://www.stopeacop.net/our-news/press-release-stopeacop-campaign-demand-for-the-release-of-activist-barigye-bob
A belt of thermal intolerance stretching across the whole of sub-Saharan Africa currently. 40C temperatures across many regions. Southern Africa also suffering. This at 1.3C. Adaptation to cope with heat can’t come quick enough to areas with no means to keep cool.
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