Topic: Farming | GroundUp

Workers demand harsher penalties for farms violating labour laws

New study finds poor working conditions even on some Fairtrade-certified farms

News | 23 March 2023

Perlemoen farm gives hope to West Coast community

Doring Bay Abalone, 37% owned by the community, produces about 60 tonnes of abalone per year, mostly to legally export to China.

Text by Liezl Human. Photos by Ashraf Hendricks.

News | 24 January 2023

Stopping people from letting their cattle graze amounts to eviction, says judge

Land Claims Court says the Constitution requires that ESTA be given a “generous interpretation”

By Tania Broughton

Law | 21 November 2022

African women demand voice at climate change summits

“We need concrete solutions for climate change now”

By Chris Gilili

Brief | 18 November 2022

Development will destroy Philippi’s farming, say activists

MEC Bredell to consider new Environmental Impact Assessment and public comments this week for Philippi Horticultural Area

By Liezl Human

News | 7 November 2022

Eastern Cape farm families plead for access to electricity and water

But farmers explain it is too costly for them to pay to install the infrastructure

By Joseph Chirume

News | 31 October 2022

Farm workers march to Parliament to demand major reform

List of demands handed to Minister of Agriculture

By Liezl Human

News | 31 October 2022

Department of Agriculture to ban use of certain pesticides by 2024

This comes nearly three years after Women on Farms raised the alarm over the use of pesticides which had already been banned in the EU

By Liezl Human

News | 21 September 2022

Government needs to speed up cannabis law reform, say protesters

“We’ve been given the constitutional right to grow and consume it, but we haven’t been given the right to trade with it,” says Linda Siboto

By Ihsaan Haffejee

Brief | 19 September 2022

Arson threatens fledgling bee business

Police didn’t take Vuyo Myoli’s complaint seriously, he says

By Ashraf Hendricks

Brief | 12 August 2022

City of Joburg demolished Mama Fifi’s urban farm, but she’s determined to start again

June demolition of Bertrams Urban Farm, running for 16 years, disrupted dozens of feeding schemes

By Adel Van Niekerk

Video | 8 August 2022

Seasonal farm workers struggle for months to get their UIF money

Long queues at De Doorns labour office where the system is often offline

By Liezl Human

News | 5 August 2022

High Court victory for former farm worker from Wellington

Drakenstein Municipality failed in its duty to provide emergency housing, Western Cape High Court finds

By Liezl Human

News | 2 August 2022

Gugulethu’s sweetest business

Vuyo Myoli set himself up as a beekeeper in the Cape Town township

By Ashraf Hendricks

News | 29 July 2022

Families to be kicked off state farm to make way for private farmer

The fate of about 20 households hangs in the air as the Agricultural Research Council moves ahead with plans to lease the farm

By Liezl Human

News | 22 July 2022

Are South Africa’s pesticide rules outdated?

Farm workers and consumers should be worried, says public health expert. But industry body says food security depends on the pesticides in use.

By Liezl Human

News | 4 July 2022