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Rain in the Western Cape isn't all bad. It forces you to slow down, lean in, and enjoy the parts of the province people often ...
Rain in the Western Cape isn’t a setback—it encourages you to slow down, take it all in, and appreciate the parts of the ...
Western Cape police were monitoring areas on Monday that were affected by recent worker protests. “Everything seems to be quiet at this stage. There have been no reports,” Lt-Col Andre Traut ...
The Western Cape government has issued retroactive environmental authorisation for a dam project undertaken eight years ago ...
Farm workers across the Western Cape live very contrasting lives. We tell their stories. THE GOODIN 2001, Fanie Olifant was picking fruit on Sandrivier Estate in Wellington.Today, the father of ...
A new research project kicked off this week which aims to establish, over the course of nine months of interviews and study, exactly why and how the Western Cape farm strikes happened. The ...
Several chicken farms in the Western Cape are on high alert following an outbreak of avian (bird) flu. The Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development confirmed that five Highly ...
Western Cape farms devastated by floods. Monday 19 June 2023 - 14:45pm. JOHANNESBURG - The Western Cape Agriculture Department is worried about the citrus harvest and farming communities locked in ...
One name consistently comes up when conversations in the Western Cape turn to speculation about who is driving farm protests: Nosey Pieterse. A beneficiary of winelands empowerment deals and self ...
The farm workers’ strikes started two weeks ago in the picturesque Boland town of De Doorns, some 90 miles outside of Cape Town, prompted by a dispute on the Keurboschkloof farm.
Four commercial chicken farms in the Western Cape have had avian flu outbreaks. These cases are in addition to five outbreaks in Gauteng and North West. It is unclear whether the Western Cape strain ...