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- Union demands more than a tot
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Critics have likened KWV's sale of a quarter of its shares to an empowerment consortium to filling rugby quotas with players from other sporting codes, and claim that instead of broad-based black economic empowerment (BEE), the deal "over-empowers" a select few in the black elite. The Food and Allied Workers' Union says the Phetogo empowerment consortium is dominated by the "Lucky 14".
- Fruit of a poisoned vine
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How will a damning Human Rights Watch report into the treatment of workers affect the local wine industry? We speak to wine columnist Tim James
- Exploited and abused in the Western Cape
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A report into the conditions of farmworkers in the Western Cape fruit and wine industries has revealed shocking details of human rights abuses.
- Wine tourism most lucrative sector
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Wine tourism was one of the fastest growing and most lucrative sectors of the global tourism market, Tourism Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk said on
- The Cape region's foetal flaw
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Research reveals that one out of ten children in the worst-affected rural areas of the Western Cape suffer from foetal alcohol syndrome.
- SA has highest rate of foetal alcohol disease, says NGO
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About 25 000 babies are born with Foetal Alcohol Syndrome every year in South Africa, an NGO said on Tuesday.
- More lay-offs as shine comes off tourism industry
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More jobs losses are expected in Cape Town and Durban as the hotels and events industries are hit hard by the slump in tourism.
- Abused from the womb
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Pregnant women who drink alcohol put their unborn children at greater risk than they think, writes Anna Crafford.
- Where govt fails FAS victims
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The government should be doing more to deal with the high numbers of children with foetal alcohol syndrome.
- Cape wine workers paid less than R60 a day
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Workers who produce hundreds of thousands of bottles of wine are struggling to survive on wages of about R57 a day and are facing harsh conditions.
