Tag: Farmers

The department of agriculture, land reform and rural development has issued yet another warning to farmers to be wary of scammers parading as government officials. Scammers are now promising to ...

The explosion that had caused extensive damage to the Medupi power station’s unit 4 generator on Sunday, may lead to load shedding from now until Christmas, even beyond the six ...

Fourteen years after Eskom started building its Medupi power station, it finally reached commercial operation status. Unfortunately, this doesn’t mean much for farmers who are at wits’ end with load ...

The eThekwini Municipality has invited proposals for private power generation amid great challenges at Eskom. The municipality tells Food For Mzansi this could be a game-changer for livestock and crop ...

Township farmers in the Mother City described steep electricity tariff and petrol price increases is “another gut-wrenching blow”. They are struggling to make ends meet after the City of Cape ...

Livestock theft has decreased in all provinces between 2019 and 2021. This, for the first time since 2003 when the police first released its national crime statistics for South Africa. ...

Bayer has hit back at research that claims it is developing and selling highly hazardous pesticide-active ingredients that are damaging the health of farmworkers and farmers in South Africa, Brazil ...

Mzansi farmers with any labour-related issues now have a 24-hour access line to lawyers who are there to provide them with advice or assistance. This has been made possible by ...

The poorest of the poor are going to suffer, insists farmers who have implemented the new minimum wage for farmworkers. Many fear that the new wage might eventually force them ...

Eight out of every ten farmers surveyed by Agri SA foresee laying off workers to keep within their wages budget. Labour costs are set to increase drastically over farmers’ turnover ...