Tag: farmworkers

In case you missed it: Even after a "rapid response team" tried to help clear up a backlog at the department of employment and labour's office in De Doorns, queues ...

In case you missed it: In a case brought by a former farmworker, the Western Cape High Court told the Drakenstein Municipality this week to make provision for emergency housing ...

Prompted by provincial police commissioner Baile Motswenyane, a manhunt is on for the murderers of six women and one young man whose lifeless bodies have been discovered on a farm ...

Audrey September is passionate about agriculture and loves nothing more than to see others grow and develop. Improving the lives of farmworkers is her No 1 mission and she's also ...

Protests in the citrus-growing Sundays River Valley have turned violent several days ago and are yet to be resolved. Journalists in the field report that protesters will continue their shutdown ...

The Women on Farms Project handed a memorandum to wine giant Distell yesterday. They ask for an end to labour abuses in the company's value chain, and recognition for the ...

Tax will always be a contentious issue in any finance minister's budget. This year, a demand by farmworkers for a wealth tax on SA's richest citizens is in stark contrast ...

Although travel bans won’t impact agricultural trade, the American Farm Bureau Federation and 60 other groups have written a letter to the United States government to exempt agri interns and ...

Intimidation, forced labour, gender-based violence, gender disparity, farm evictions, poor living conditions and absent occupational safety and health systems. These are some of the issues and challenges farmworkers still face, ...

In the 20 years that Julian Fransman has been toiling passionately as an agriworker, he has never received an award. Until recently, when he was announced as the Western Cape’s ...