/ 12 December 2000

FARMWORKERS GET R2M NAARTJIE FARM

A GROUP of Northern Province farm workers who once worked for just R500 a month are now proud owners of a R2m naartjie farm. The provincial land affairs department handed the title deeds of Marobala Citrus Farm in Soekmekaar near Pietersburg to three farm workers’ trusts. The trusts, which comprise 137 farm workers, combined their settlement and land acquisition grants of R16 000 per family to buy the 205ha farm. – African Eye News Service