Farming

Farmworkers want 67 pesticides banned

NGO says the pesticides are already banned in the European Union

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News | 29 August 2019

Small-scale farmers demand access to land

“Our animals graze in yards and graveyards because there is no land for us”

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News | 23 August 2019

Farm workers say Oak Valley housing arrangements are racist

But farm retorts that its living conditions are humane

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Brief | 21 August 2019

Hundreds stranded by roadside after massive farm eviction in Kraaifontein

Evictees say all their possessions were seized

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News | 21 August 2019

“We don’t grow plants, we grow people”

Streetscapes’ urban gardens offer people living on the streets a way to reintegrate with society

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News | 24 July 2019

Family living along R44 in Paarl buy a house

The family plans to move to Wellington at the end of July

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News | 19 July 2019

Farm workers, let down by politicians, face new threats to their security

Their situation can be improved but is there the political will?

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Opinion | 17 July 2019

“The black poor majority on farms are feeling the rot of this system”

Farm workers and farm dwellers protest to demand rural reforms

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News | 12 July 2019

Police and developers blame each other for unlawful eviction

Land occupiers in Mayfield intend to bring contempt of court action

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News | 10 July 2019

Judge says roadside May family are “authors of their own fate”

Courts make inhumane decisions based on legal facts and are not in touch with our people on the ground, says farm workers’ rights organiser

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News | 21 June 2019

Herding cattle in Gauteng to send every cent possible to Lesotho

Kopano Lekau works seven days a week as a herdsman to earn R2,000 a month

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News | 7 June 2019

Threat of new strike at Robertson Winery

Wage talks leave workers unsatisfied

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News | 27 May 2019

Vavi joins Grabouw farm workers march

Unions to meet with Human Rights Commission and Oak Valley managers over housing issues

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Brief | 24 May 2019

Grabouw farm workers suspend protest

Union calls for release of arrested protesters

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Brief | 15 May 2019

Evicted families stuck in Paarl caravan park for a year

Municipality says its emergency housing project was halted by community resistance

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News | 24 April 2019

Evicted family spend three weeks on R44 roadside

“They are unemployed and in desperate need of funding so they can buy food”

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Brief | 17 April 2019