A 2019 precedent setting high court ruling compelled municipalities to provide farm dwellers with clean drinking water and provide access to dignified sanitation. However very little has changed for some farm residents.
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“We must stop taking water for granted,” Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Director-General Dr Qu Dongyu warned at the recent two-day Rome Water Dialogue, the…
A community which has waited more than two decades for their land claim to be resolved has expressed disappointment at being given just five minutes…
Amidst the growing concern over rampant fires engulfing rural communities, residents of Pinky-Sebotse village have found relief in the recent fire prevention and awareness campaign…
The Marapyane Bakgatla Primary Cooperative is the beneficiary of the Grain Project by the Department of Agriculture, Rural Development, Land and Environmental Affairs (DARDLEA)
Experts are warning that overfishing and pollution of the oceans have depleted natural fish stocks alarmingly in South Africa. The result is that in the…
Young farmer Mfundo Mahlangu from Kameelrivier B in Mpumalanga is determined to show that one doesn’t only need to rely on government support to succeed…
Land reform beneficiary Frank Makgopela Monaheng farms bonsmara cattle and sunflower. He has built up the farm into a thriving commercial enterprise by reinvesting his profits into the business, using the funds to buy machinery to improve production.
Firewood merchants doing their delivery rounds in GaThaba, a village under the Polokwane Local Municipality in Limpopo province, South Africa. People in rural areas like this village collect firewood in the forests to sell to local residents who use alternative sources of energy to escape the high electricity tariffs. The over harvesting of wood is however placing the environment under threat. Rural villages like GaThaba are characterised by high rates of unemployment and a general lack of economic opportunities. The National Energy Regulator of SA has approved an 18.65% increase in electricity prices for 2023 – and a 12.74% hike for next year. The increase puts the affordability of electricity beyond the means of most rural households which survive on the state's welfare grants.