Farming

Ladismith cheese workers demonstrate in solidarity with farm workers

Factory workers demand action against farmer

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News | 25 February 2021

Forced closure of Humansdorp co-op hits farmers

Striking workers vow to keep co-op shut until grievances addressed

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News | 17 February 2021

Civic farming campaign opposes Philippi Horticultural Area development

Proposed massive urban development opposed by small farmers

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News | 12 February 2021

Women march for farm and land rights

“Land now, food forever” demand activist organisations

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News | 1 December 2020

Forgotten farm dwellers in Philippi plead for services

They say they do not know who to ask for help as farm owner is impossible to track down

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News | 10 November 2020

Disputes plague breakthrough land claim settlement

Multi-million rand farming operation on 2,425 hectares was expected to be a win-win for former owners and claimants

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News | 5 November 2020

Almost a century later, land claimants get back thousands of hectares of farm land and vineyards

Ebenhaeser community’s claim finally settled in mediated negotiations during lockdown

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Feature | 27 October 2020

Subsistence farmers under siege from land occupation

Shacks have been erected in the middle of their crops in Dunoon

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Brief | 27 October 2020

Family “dumped” in Wellington can’t travel to work and school

They were forcibly evicted from their home on a farm in Paarl where they lived for 23 years

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News | 27 October 2020

“The farmers are coming!” protesters march to Parliament

MEC Meyer says farmers are living in fear

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Brief | 25 October 2020

Farm workers march for land

Government has committed to land redistribution in all provinces except Gauteng and Western Cape

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News | 16 October 2020

Activists threaten to take over unused land and farms

Call for state to form compact with civil society to drive land reform

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News | 28 September 2020

Campaigns failing to stop farm evictions, say civil society organisations

Webinar highlights plight of women on farms, calls on President to honour promise

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News | 5 August 2020

“I can’t even feed my children” says unemployed farmworker

Seasonal workers take farm owner to CCMA for “unfair dismissal and illegal eviction”

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News | 30 July 2020

Unemployed Cato Crest women start chicken farm to feed their families

“We are determined to make a success of this”

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Brief | 20 July 2020

Robertson farmer takes activists to court over eviction email

Rural Legal Centre accused farmer of not complying with law

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News | 20 April 2020