KAONAFATSO YA DIKGOMO INFORMATION SESSION YIELDS POSITIVE RESULTS Farmers in the Dikgatlong Municipality were spoiled for choice when the Department of Agriculture, Environmental Affairs, Rural Development and Land Reform’s in conjuction with various stakeholder held a a Kaonafatso ya dikgomo Farmers Day in Barkley West. The Department’s Training and Capacity Building Unit’s Deputy Director Mr
07 February 2022
DEPT TO INDUCT 62 ASSISTANT AGRICULTURAL PRACTITIONERS (AAPs).
The Department of Agriculture, Environmental Affairs, Rural Development and Land Reform is expected to induct and orientate about 62 Assistant Agricultural Practitioners (AAPs) in Upington on the 09th February.
25 January 2023
The Minister of Employment and Labour Thulas Nxesi has warned farmers in the Northern Cape that food security will be affected if preservation of the livelihood of farmworkers is not prioritised. On Monday, 23 January 2023, the Minister together with the Northern Cape MEC for Agriculture, Environmental Affairs, Rural Development and Land Reform Mase Manopole, visited three farms (Groenheuwel, Loveren and Tierkop) in Kakamas, in the Northern Cape, where eight (8) farmworkers passed on, from what is suspected to be a heatstroke.
20 January 2023
MEC for Agriculture, Environmental Affairs, Rural development and Land Reform, Mme Mase Manopole, sends a message of condolences to the families of farmworkers who passed on due to what is suspected to be a heat stroke.
About seven farm workers passed-on (five passed-on yesterday and two this morning) and one farm worker is on a ventilator at the Kakamas Hospital.