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27 April 2023
African Arguments
As vineyards in South Africa strategise to keep the wine flowing amid climate change, farmworkers fear more extreme conditions.
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01 May 2023
The Citizen
Despite progress in protecting workers rights and improving working conditions South Africa's unemployment rate remains high.
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25 April 2023
GroundUp
The municipality says its housing policy for poor rural and farm dwellers “is more generous than other municipalities in the Western Cape”
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23 March 2023
GroundUp
New study finds poor working conditions even on some Fairtrade-certified farms
Farm workers read moreabout 10 families living on Bellevue Farm on the R44 in Paarl have been complaining about since the farm's new owner took over.
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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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