Farming
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”
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
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
Brief | 19 September 2022
Arson threatens fledgling bee business
Police didn’t take Vuyo Myoli’s complaint seriously, he says
Brief | 12 August 2022