Tag: land restitution

The Cape Town-based Booker Prize winner Damon Galgut. Photo: Tom Nicholson/Reuters

Booker Prize winner: ‘I don’t like political writing’

by Staff Reporter

3rd Dec 2021

Food For Mzansi chats to Booker Prize winner Damon Galgut about The Promise, his critically acclaimed book about a family clinging to their Pretoria farm at a time of great ...

Eastern Cape farmer, Siphesihle Kwetana is still waiting for prize monies owed to for a YAFF award ceremony which took place in 2019. Photo: Supplied.

YAFF Awards: Desperate farmer still awaits 2019 prize money

by Duncan Masiwa

16th Sep 2020

A promise by the South African department of agriculture to pay up money owed to winners of the 2019 YAFF Awards, has still not been kept. It has been more ...

Siphesihle Kwetana (25) on her 85 hectare farm in Qumbu Eastern Cape.

Government vows to fix YAFF award blunder

by Duncan Masiwa

23rd Jul 2020

The department of agriculture, land reform and rural development says it will “find a better way to fast-track the process” to resolve grievances from three young farmers who still have ...

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