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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 Western Cape government has issued retroactive environmental authorisation for a dam project undertaken eight years ago ...
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 ...
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 ...