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.
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Many up and coming farmers have resorted to buying water, an option they say isn't sustainable for the long-term.
Memoirist Mda Mda goes back to the late 1800s to present day – covering colonialism, to apartheid, and democracy – to trace the steps of a fractured Transkeian history in Struggle and Hope – Reflections on the recent history of the Transkeian People.
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
The scramble for minerals in rural areas is transforming communities that once lived on subsistence farming into messy dumps grappling with pollution of water sources and destruction of grazing and ploughing lands.