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Amendments to the Extension of Security of Tenure Act enable the formation of a land rights management board and land rights management committees to address tenure security, evictions, land rights disputes and land acquisition for settlement. Photo: File
AGRICULTURAL AND ALLIED WORKERS UNION

No dignity in displacement: Tenure insecurity in the Winelands

The conditions of people who work and live in South Africa’s farms today have remained the same as under apartheid. Will the new amendments in legislation bring about change?

  • Lungelo Mncwabe & Nokhetho Mhlanga
7 min read
Certification and social investment awards hide the harms that farmworkers suffer. Photo: File
CASUAL WORKERS ADVICE OFFICE

Ecosystem of injustice: The hidden system that keeps rural South Africa unequal

Behind the facade of certification and social investment, inequality stems from an arrangement designed to protect corporate profits and maintain elite land ownership

  • Brian Adams
4 min read
Rural people are dispossessed and displaced by companies that collect awards for ESG credentials, corporate social investment and sector excellence. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
AGRICULTURE

Award-winning exploitation: South Africa’s sustainability façade unmasked

Rural people are dispossessed and displaced by companies that collect awards for ESG credentials, corporate social investment and sector excellence

  • Brian Adams
4 min read
Our hands are our best tools: A composite image of seeds. (Image design: Zamano Xolo)
AFRICAN CENTRE FOR BIODIVERSITY

The tragic loss of seed culture

The proposed seed Bills restrict the freedom of seed users to share, save, exchange or sell seed and creates a dependency on bought, modified seed

  • Zayaan Khan
10 min read