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RAMAPHOSA BANS FARM EVICTIONS IN BID TO SOLVE UNREST
Johannesburg – Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa has infuriated organised agriculture by announcing an immediate ban on legal and illegal farm evictions.
Ramaphosa announced the moratorium after he and a delegation of senior ministers met for hours yesterday with agricultural and farm labour representatives in Paarl in the Western Cape.
Read MoreNOSEY DREIG WEER MET STAKING
Die Regering moet sy beloftes aan plaaswerkers nakom, of hulle gaan weer staak, sê mnr. Nosey Pieterse.
Read MoreYOUTH INCENTIVE SCHEME BEARS FRUIT
AT LEAST 209 000 youth have been absorbed into the labour market this year under the government’s youth employment tax incentive scheme, a significant increase from the 56 000 young people announced by then finance minister Pravin Gordhan in his Budget speech in February.
Read MoreAGRI SA VERRAS MET ‘RAAMWERK’ VIR GRONDHERVORMING
Suid-Afrika se Grondwet sal nie toelaat dat ’n Zimbabwe-agtige grondherverdelingsproses hier plaasvind nie, het Gugile Nkwinti, minister van landelike ontwikkeling en grondhervorming, boere gister gerusgestel.
Read More’N FEITESENDING GAAN DIE BEWEERDE UITSETTINGS VAN PLAASWERKERS IN DIE WES-KAAP BEKYK, IN OPDRAG VAN MNR. GUGILE NKWINTI
Senior beamptes van die Departement van Landelike Ontwikkeling en Grondhervorming sal Maandag, 20 Oktober, ‘n feitesending na die Wes-Kaap onderneem om die werklike prentjie rakende die bewerings rondom uitsetting te kry, sê mnr. Gugile Nkwinti, Minister van Landelike Ontwikkeling en Grondhervorming.
Read MoreSELFS DIE WÊRELDEKONOMIE SE BRANDBESTRYDER KAN SA VLAMME NIE BLUS
Deur Mike Schüssler, Sake-siening Maandag 13 Oktober 2014 12:30 vm.
Verlede week het die Internasionale Monetêre Fonds (IMF) die groeivooruitsigte vir die wêreldekonomie vir vanjaar van 3,4% tot 3,3% afgeskaal.
Read MoreSA’S UNIONS THREATEN ZIM-STYLE FARM SEIZURES
ZIMBABWE style land invasions could become “inevitable” if evictions of farm workers persisted and farmers resisted change in land ownership, South Africa’s labour organisations have warned.
Read MoreCOSATU THREATENS MASS PROTEST ACTION OVER FARMWORKER EVICTIONS
Trade union federation Cosatu has threatened to stage massive protests in the Western Cape if farm owners continue the large scale eviction of farmworkers from their land.
Read MoreMINIMUM WAGE ‘DOES NOT KILL FARM JOBS’
by Linda Ensor, 15 September 2014, 06:08
Contrary to popular belief, it is macroeconomic and trade policies, rather than the introduction of a minimum wage, that have been the main cause of the fall in employment in the farming sector, says an academic at the University of the Western Cape.
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MINISTER POOG OM ONWERKBARE BELEID TE VESTIG
Tydens die Grondberaad wat van 4 – 6 September 2014 in Boksburg plaasgevind het, het die Minister van Landelike Ontwikkeling en Grondhervorming, mnr Gugile Nkwinti die kontroversiële beleid in terme waarvan beperkings geplaas kan word op die omvang van plaasgrond wat persone mag besit, probeer afdwing, het Johannes Möller president van Agri SA gesê.
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