Trump's 31% tariff threatens South African citrus industry that employs 140,000 workers and supplies American summer fruit ...

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 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.

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 ...

Three people were shot during a farm attack, near Durbanville in the Western Cape. The attackers fled on foot after allegedly stealing cellphones and laptops. All three patients were stabilised on the ...

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 ...

Western Cape farm workers can now breathe a sigh of relief as 1 156 direct electricity connections have been completed. The Agri-worker Electrification Project, which was started in 2016, aims to ...

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 ...

This week marks the one year anniversary of the strikes by Western Cape farmworkers which left three workers dead, saw R160 million claimed for in insurance, and resulted in a 52% increase in the ...

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 ...