List of demands handed to Minister of Agriculture.
David Esau, provincial Chief Inspector of the Department of Labour, said that many farms injuries were not reported and employees were coerced into signing illegal contracts.
Boer is one of about 200 women living on farms in the Western and Northern Cape who marched to Parliament on Friday 28 October and handed over a memorandum of demands addressed to Thoko Didiza, Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development. The march was organised by the Women on Farms Project and the Rural Women’s Assembly. The memorandum was received by a representative of the presidency. Some of the placards read: “Land=dignified lives”, “Prosecute farmers who violate farm worker rights”, and “Courts stop granting eviction orders”., things “have not improved in the last ten years” in the lives of farm workers. “In many respects, things are actually deteriorating. Work is more insecure. Evictions are happening at a pace.
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