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14 January 2020
SowetanLive
There is renewed hope for Mpumalanga farmworkers who have been subjected to illegal deductions on their wages after department of labour paid their employer a visit last week.
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02 January 2020
GCIS Sowetan Live
An award-winning farming enterprise is opening doors of opportunities for its employees.
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27 November 2019
IOL
President Cyril Ramaphosa might soon find himself embroiled in a Labour Court battle as Fawu is set to take him to task over retrenchments.
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07 November 2019
IOL
Videos of the De Doorns community looting trucks and embarking on protest action have gone viral on social media.
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11 November 2019
GroundUp
“We are getting to a point where we will definitely see another strike soon”
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04 November 2019
UCT
An interdisciplinary team of academics from the University of Cape Town and two international institutions has conducted a series of scientific studies on the remains of nine people from Sutherland. They have uncovered a range of findings which could influence national policy for future burial and restitution.
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05 November 2019
The Citizen
The province which brought you the Vrede Dairy Project is alleged to have spent millions on two failing agri-villages.
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04 November 2019
Politicsweb
The Ortmann family should be celebrating the 150th anniversary of the founding of their farming business in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands. The sugar and timber estate, centred on the farm Kruisfontein outside New Hanover, is run by the fifth generation of the family, brothers Dieter and Reinhard with their cousin Rupert and farm manager Andrew Smith.
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01 November 2019
Fin24
Unions had better move fast if they wish to remain relevant in the future, says Terry Bell.
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25 October 2019
Daily Maverick
Among the rocks, sand and astonishing heat of the Northern Cape, spinach, tomatoes, carrots and peppers sprout up in gardens. Nearly 300 women farmworkers created these household gardens to feed their families and neighbours year-round, in a province where most farmworkers face severe food insecurity.
Farm workers read moreWhy is South Africa’s renewable energy sector so politically outgunned? The answer begins a decade ago, in a $35bn wind and solar initiative proposed by our government at COP16... it ends where we expect it to end, in the kickass power of the coal lobby... https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-01-16-renewables-vs-coal-timeline-of-a-fatally-rigged-fight/
Perspectives on the Traditional and Khoisan Leadership Act: A (giant) step backwards for human rights in SA https://www.newframe.com/a-step-backwards-for-human-rights-in-sa/
There is a need to balance the manner in which land is acquired and used. The debate on #landexpropriation without compensation has somewhat reduced the land reform question to one of acquisition.
SA - The land bill is a curate’s egg and, right now, it’s a bit scrambled - by Simon Hull https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-01-16-the-land-bill-is-a-curates-egg-and-right-now-its-a-bit-scrambled/
We’re excited to announce the launch of @PlaceFund, a new venture fund that supports bold ideas focused on solving pressing #LandRights challenges like unsustainable land use and #ClimateChange. Learn more: http://bit.ly/30oSyDt
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