The Mavungeni land-use strategy could prevent some challenges that Communal Property Association (CPAs) are faced with, writes Molatelo Mohale, a programme officer at the Nkuzi Development Association.
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Frustrated CPAs revolt over ‘lack of government support’
Communal Property Association (CPA) representatives fed up with what they say is lack of support from government have resolved to form an independent union to tackle issues they claim are leading to the collapse of farming projects run by land claimant communities.
How the drought in KZN is hampering emerging farmers
Many up and coming farmers have resorted to buying water, an option they say isn't sustainable for the long-term.
Farm dwellers’ struggle for basic rights not at an end
Municipality challenges judgment compelling it to provide basic services to families
residing on farms
Young entrepreneur jilts engineering for moringa farming
He supplies retail stores with capsules and other by products
from the 1500 trees on his farm
Veteran farmer tells learners agriculture offers successful career opportunities
A veteran wealthy Limpopo farmer has inspired learners to seek a career in the field of agriculture especially in these tough economic times when jobs are becoming scarce.
Title deeds for farm workers still trapped in slavery conditions
It’s not yet uhuru for many women living and working on various farms in the Western Cape as they remain trapped in poverty, enduring appalling working conditions, underpaid and their constitutional rights routinely trampled upon by farm bosses.
Bonding with the ancestors as African New year dawns
Healer on a mission to preserve ways of traditional African religion in an when foreign influences
continue to encourage the spurning of the old ways
Khoisan want access to land
The Indigenous Traditional Rooibos Farming Communities of the Cederberg Belt say they need land so that they can harvest and commercialise their produce on their own.
A desire to expose injustice
‘Crossing the border illegally into South Africa was like a Sunday afternoon stroll for Shaolin Masache. A customs official at the Beit Bridge border post arranged for Masache to get a gate pass after accepting a bribe of R100, which he shared with a police officer on duty at the border post. Masache, 28, walked into South Africa without a passport…He arrived in the farming town of Waterpoort in the Northern Province two days later after a punishing 90km walk…




